Novelist and former Baltimore Sun reporter Laura Lippman has dedicated her latest book to the five victims of last year’s Capital Gazette newsroom attack. “The Lady In The Lake,” which Lippman describes as a “weird love letter to the Baltimore newspapers of the ’60s,” is dedicated to Rob Hiaasen,...
Taye Diggs’ megawatt smile will be seen in Baltimore this fall. But the Broadway star and former cast member of TV’s “Empire” will be behind the curtain for a change. Diggs will make his directorial debut in “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” by Keenan Scott II, a new work described in a Baltimore Center...
The screwball comedy spirit of the 1934 musical “Anything Goes” definitely comes across in a Silhouette Stages production that makes the most of the silly plot. Set on the sort of ocean liner that’s fully booked with colorful characters, “Anything Goes” lives up to its title. Not everything that’s...
Darin Atwater sat down at a piano backstage at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Monday morning and performed an original piece, “First Note,” which he had composed over the weekend. The piece was to symbolize how Atwater’s orchestra, Soulful Symphony, which he founded in 2000, is moving into its new...
To fulfill Jim Rouse’s vision, Merriweather Post Pavilion is expected to announce the venue’s first resident orchestra at a press conference Monday. As Rouse planned out Columbia, with an emphasis on the arts, he had hoped for a resident orchestra to find its home at Merriweather, according to...
Dan Jenkins, the sports writing great and best-selling author in a career that went from Ben Hogan to Tiger Woods and the manual typewriter to Twitter, has died. He was 89. TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati confirmed Jenkins died Thursday in his hometown of Fort Worth. Jenkins started his writing...
Dorothy Caliban was living a staid, suburban California existence when a “gigantic six-foot-seven-inch frog-like creature shouldered its way into the house and stood stock-still in front of her, crouching slightly, and staring straight at her face." Mrs. Caliban does not scream or call the authorities....
1. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama (Crown, $32.50) 2. “An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago” by Alex Kotlowitz (Talese, $27.95) 3. “Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover (Random House, $28) 4. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens (Putnam, $27) 5. “Black Leopard, Red Wolf: The Dark Star...
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens (Putnam, $27) Last week: 1 2. "Silent Night: A Novel" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $28.99) Last week: — 3. "Cemetery Road: A Novel" by Greg Iles (Morrow, $28.99) Last week: — 4. "The Chef" by James Patterson and Max DiLallo (Little,...
At its worst, the doctrine of self-improvement can be dehumanizing — pressuring individuals to treat themselves like products or apps perpetually in need of touch-ups or updates, the better to accommodate themselves to a fast-paced, mechanized and alienating world. In her short, satirical and cautionary...
Alex Kotlowitz sat at the head of the room, a hand on his broad forehead, another holding a pen poised over a student paper. Around him sat the 19 undergraduates at Northwestern University who had registered for his class, “The Journalism of Empathy.” He’s been teaching this at the Medill School...