The sumptuous new Romare Bearden exhibit at Maryland's largest African-American museum contains nearly five dozen collages, paintings and prints that any institution would be proud to display. Visitors to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture wander from one...
Attention, mystery lovers — you can start your 2019 summer reading list now. The best-selling and much-awarded Baltimore novelist Laura Lippman gave her audience at Church of the Redeemer a tantalizing glimpse of her newest book, tentatively titled “Lady in the Lake.” Lippman, who read a few pages...
Meeting your heroes can be disappointing. But Stan Lee lived up to his billing. The overseer of the Marvel Universe, co-creator (Stan never claimed to be a solo act) of every superhero therein from Spider-Man and the Mighty Thor to Black Panther and The Wasp, a force in the comic-book industry...
A district court judge has granted a temporary peace order against Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Jonathan Carney, according to court records. District Court of Maryland Judge Catherine Chen ruled Monday that a peace order against Carney was enforceable after he allegedly threatened...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has suspended concertmaster Jonathan Carney after allegations surfaced of Carney’s “inappropriate behavior” toward another orchestra’s employee, BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome said in a statement. BSO management decided to suspend Carney after it came to the...
Two of downtown’s most popular festivals, Light City and the Baltimore Book Festival, will be moving to November in 2019. The two festivals will be strung together as a 10-day celebration beginning next Nov. 1, officials with the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, which produces both,...
I cannot shake the idea that I should start my own bookstore. Maybe it is a madness brought on by advancing age, or perhaps it is rooted in my coastal South Carolina town just outside Charleston having only a Barnes & Noble — a Barnes & Noble that had not books but wool socks in its most prominent...
Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. opens his profound, profane and propulsive debut short story collection, “Sacred Smokes,” with an epigraph from “Indians of Oregon, Plateau, and Plains.” Quoting an Indian agent speaking of the Sioux tribes in the 1850s, this move tacitly recognizes that Chicago in the...
“Past Tense” by Lee Child, narrated by Scott Brick, Random House, 12:51 There’s a new Jack Reacher in town. Scott Brick — the voice of Jack Ryan in many a Tom Clancy novel, the actor on more than 800 audio titles, and the winner of multiple Audie and Earphone awards — steps in as the wandering...
I have completed 155 of James Mustich’s “1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List.” Time for some math. I currently read 70 books a year, give or take, and I’m 48 years old. If I live as long as the average white male in the United States, I have 29 more years of reading. If I average...
As Jeff Tweedy would admit — and more or less does in his new memoir, “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)” — his life hasn’t been all that interesting, at least for a rock star. Raised in a dysfunctional family (his father drank a 12-pack every night), he grew up in a depressed Midwestern town (downstate...