Baltimore Symphony Orchestra made headlines this month after musicians, donors and members of the public learned the organization is in dire financial straits. Here’s what you need to know: Financial trouble The BSO was established in 1916 as a branch of the Baltimore municipal government. The...
Pianist Asiya Korepanova doesn’t live in Baltimore County — she never has. But when the pianist came through the county in 2016 to perform in a chamber concert with cellist Gita Ladd, she knew she had to keep coming back. The reason? Linehan Hall, a new theater on the campus of UMBC. The space...
A reboot of “The Boondocks” is in the works with creator and University of Maryland graduate Aaron McGruder on board, according to reports out of the 2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Sony made the announcement today, calling the production scheduled for 2020 a “complete re-imaging”...
Jay Rohlfing, the executive chef of Cunningham’s in Towson, will appear Tuesday on “Chopped.” He joins the growing list of chefs from the Baltimore area to guest star on the Food Network competition. Last year, David Thomas, executive chef and owner of Ida B’s Table in downtown Baltimore, won a...
When Baltimore native and Baltimore City College graduate André De Shields won a Tony award on June 9, he shouted out his hometown from the stage. “Baltimore, Maryland, are you in the house?” said De Shields, according to broadway.com. “I hope you’re watching at home because I am making good on...
Baltimore’s 5-year-old Cohesion Theatre Company will be going on “hiatus” at the end of this month, forcing the cancellation of its final two shows of the 2018-2019 season. Specifics on the company’s future were not detailed in a media release announcing the “production hiatus,” dated June 11....
Summer in Chicago means reuniting with longer days, a more leisurely pace and (at last!) habitable weather. Our collective mood shifts from anticipatory to celebratory. The upcoming book season, ushered in by trustworthy talent and assured new voices, should inspire an equally sunny outlook. Whether...
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens (Putnam, $27) Last week: 1 2. "Unsolved" by James Patterson and David Ellis (Little, Brown, $28) Last week: — 3. "City of Girls: A Novel" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead, $28) Last week: — 4. "Queen Bee: A Novel" by Dorothea Benton Frank...
1. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens (Putnam, $27) 2. “On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel” by Ocean Vuong (Penguin, $26) 3. “The Great Believers: A Novel” by Rebecca Makkai (Penguin, $16) 4. “City of Girls: A Novel” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead, $28) 5. “Little Fires Everywhere”...
It is presidential campaign book season, and I, for one, couldn’t be less excited. You know the presidential campaign book: a hardcover tome with a picture of the candidate on the cover in a perfectly relaxed and friendly pose, coupled with a title that promises to inspire without any risk of offending....
Aleksandar Hemon has populated both his fiction (“Nowhere Man,” “The Lazarus Project”) and nonfiction (“The Book of My Lives”) with stories and characters from his native Bosnia. His latest two-books-in-one memoir makes clear that a penchant for narrative — not to mention beekeeping, folk singing...