poetry
- Neptune delivers raw meditations on racial inequality and inner-city violence, but also self-worth and pride.
- Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a blend of opera and musical, will be staged with a Baltimore twist by Peabody Opera Theatre at the Modell-Lyric Performing Arts Center.
- Midway through its 2014-2015 season at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Ballet Theatre of Maryland is continuing its Vote-Your-Choice season with performances picked by audience members.
- The Charles Village-based Dan Meyer Choir will perform "Love Songs of the Presidents," based on love letters and poems that presidents wrote to their wives and significant others.
- Compass Rose Theater is showing off its innovative play selection in its third offering of the season in famed 20th century poet T.S. Eliot's probing drama, "Murder in the Cathedral."
- An all-girls a cappella group at Friends School is the opening act for Friday's Jay Leno show at Lyric Opera House. We profile the group and how they got such a big gig.
- Historian overlooks century-old song dedicated to Baltimore
- Obituary: Former Baltimorean Henry F. Hoeckel, Jr. was a brave soldier, a devoted family man and a prolific writer of comic verse
- Hampden-based illustrator David Plunkert, of Cockeysville has illustrated a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's gothic stories for Rockport Publishers.
- The football season didn't start off perfectly for Old Mill, Franklin, Dunbar or Douglass. But that doesn't matter now.
- Modell-Lyric has no comment on comedian Bill Cosby's scheduled appearance.
- A recording by John McCormack of the 1918 ballad "Dear Old Pal of Mine," which captures the mood on the front lines in World War I.
- Surprise ending is among questionable directorial touches in Lyric Opera Baltimore's vividly acted staging of Puccini classic.
- Julia Showalter teaches English and creative writing at Franklin High School. But to her, lessons are more than just writing exercises and essays. She works to teach her students not just the fundamentals of the written word, but important life lessons, as well. That's why when she heard about the work being done at Paul's Place, an outreach program in Washington Village — Pigtown for impoverished and homeless individuals, she knew she could use it to create a learning opportunity for her
- Out of the darkness, the lighted images appeared like visions above a vacant lot in Reservoir Hill: saxophonists and jazz pianists, hip-hop artists and poets.
- In a recent interview, Yellowcard singer Ryan Key discusses the band's new album, "Lift a Sail" and the personal trials that inspired it.
- A preliminary injunction allows Lawrence Smith to continue coaching Dunbar football past his original 10-day restraining order lifting a one-year suspension.
- Owings Mills native wrote hit song 'All About That Bass' with Meghan Trainor.
- The storytelling going on in Laurel Mill Playhouse's current production of Ntozake Shange's highly acclaimed "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" plays a little differently than anything performed at the Playhouse before.