We’re going to have a lot of fun in and around Baltimore this year! Don’t believe us? Such skepticism is entirely unwarranted — from Orioles Fanfest in three weeks to the combined Light City and Baltimore Book Festival in early November, Charm City’s arts and entertainment schedule is practically...
From the beaches of Ocean City in the east to the Appalachian Mountains in the west, from the rolling hills of My Lady's Manor (home to Maryland's steeplechase races) in the north to the tidewater marshlands of the Chesapeake Bay to the south -- Maryland has a little bit of everything.
The Grammy Award-winning singer Mary J. Blige and the hip hop phenom Nas will perform in Baltimore on Aug. 29 as part of their co-headlining summer tour. The duo added the Royal Farms Arena as an additional destination in their 22-city road trip across North America, in between their shows in Tuscaloosa,...
Baltimore’s namesake fine art museum revealed Tuesday that it will open a new satellite art space downtown in Lexington Market — the downtown plaza known as the United States’ oldest marketplace — this week. The Baltimore Art Museum announced in a news release that BMA Lexington Market will officially...
Tylden W. Streett, a noted sculptor who successfully combined careers as an artist, musician and longtime teacher at the Maryland Institute College of Art, died Thursday of lymphoma at his home in Richmond, Calif. The former longtime Roland Park resident was 96. “He was a wonderful sculptor and...
The first negotiating session between the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s management and the musicians’ union ended Friday afternoon with what a co-chair of the Players Committee described as “backwards progress.” During the three-hour bargaining session, the 75 musicians learned that their long-term...
Four years after “Hamilton” debuted in New York, nearly three years after it began running in Chicago, 18 months after it opened in London and a year after it occupied Washington, the blockbuster musical that envisages the nation’s founding fathers as rappers will finally arrive in Baltimore on...
A bitter labor dispute exacerbated by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's financial crisis erupted this week into a lockout. It was the first work stoppage at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in three decades. Sunday’s decision by the orchestra’s board of trustees locking out the players was not unexpected....