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Reactions to the 91st Academy Awards including Berg and Harberts

The 91st Academy Awards faced a far amount of drama before it even aired. For the first time in 30 years, the awards went without a host. The controversy began with the resurfacing of some of Kevin Hart's old tweets that were deemed homophobic. ABC was hoping that the controversy would help raise viewership because of the drama but instead people had a visceral reaction and called for a boycott. ABC then decided to air the Oscars without a host, which was a surprising move but was actually well received. Most industry insiders thought that a hostless Awards show would ...

• Opinion

America needs to see BlacKkKlansman, but will it get the message?

Mary Sanchez: Spike Lee's new film, "BlacKkKlansman," conveys an important message in the era of the alt-right. Will we hear it?

• Opinion

Pitts: A great moment in black history

The KKK are such imbeciles, they unknowingly let a black man join, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Entertainment

Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' features a track from a Baltimore songwriter

This week, when Spike Lee’s latest film, “BlacKkKlansman,” opens in theaters, “Freedom Ride” will be on the soundtrack.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Aug 10, 2018

• Howard County

The Glenelg composer whose work is heard around the world

Wendell Hanes, a 46-year-old married father of two, is the owner and lead composer of Volition Sound Branding, working with the likes of Sony, Spike Lee, Nicki Minaj, Future, Nas and Rihanna.

By John-John Williams IV

Feb 1, 2018

• Features

Maryland native DeWanda Wise brings a modern touch to Netflix revival of 'She's Gotta Have It'

Nola Darling is back, with Maryland native DeWanda Wise reviving the sexually liberated Brooklynite in Spike Lee’s Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It,” a 10-episode rendition of 1986 film that debuts in full this Thanksgiving.

By Brittany Britto

Nov 10, 2017

• Entertainment

5 must-see movie events in the Baltimore area this fall

Five must-see movie-related events in the Baltimore area for fall 2017.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Aug 30, 2017

• Sports

Spike Lee announces rally at NFL headquarters to support Colin Kaepernick

Movie director and activist Spike Lee announced a rally at NFL headquarters in New York on Aug. 23 to support Colin Kaepernick.

• Baltimore City Paper

The 2017 Fiction and Poetry Issue

• Maryland

In 2016, Baltimore had an outsized impact on the nation's – and world's – cultural conversations

From #OscarsSoWhite to Carla Hayden, the nation's first female and African-American Librarian of Congress, Baltimore cultural leaders are crucial to how America defines itself

By Mary Carole McCauley

Dec 23, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" is surreal, preachy, and rarely dull, if tortuously muddled

• Business

Stephen Curry, Jamie Foxx paired again as Under Armour pitches 'Curry Two' shoe

Stephen Curry, Jamie Foxx paired again as Under Armour pitches 'Curry Two' shoe. Under Armour released the newest ad featuring the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player and the Oscar-winning actor.

• Baltimore City Paper

 Best Synergy: Maryland Film Festival

• Baltimore City Paper

Bond St. District's prescient protest EP, 'Everybody's So Sleepy'

• Opinion

Messenger King: Michael Jackson and the politics of #BlackLivesMatter

"Where are all the celebrities?" That's a question many supporters of #BlackLivesMatter protests are asking. At this moment of great unrest, some are feeling a lack of leadership from those who have worldwide media platforms. I think something other than apathy is really at work here: fear and trepidation. Michael Jackson was never afraid to put himself out there for the truth as he saw it, and he took a pounding for it.

• Baltimore City Paper

Fight The Power

• Baltimore City Paper

Summer movie schedule

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Arts & Entertainment

• Baltimore City Paper

Spike Lee, MLK Convocation, Loyola University, Jan. 20

• Baltimore City Paper

Blood on the Wall$: A Film in 21 Parts

• Musical Theater

Center Stage gives area premiere of 'Wild with Happy'

Comedy deals with love, grieving, sexuality

• Baltimore City Paper

Directed by Darius Clark Monroe

• Baltimore City Paper

EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL

Executive-produced by Spike Lee, Evolution of a Criminal is an autobiographical documentary laced with nail-biting, Michael Mann-style recreations of the crime and equally tense interviews with family, the two friends who helped Monroe commit the robbery, and a few of the innocents in the bank when it occurred.

• Baltimore City Paper

A play presents a hilariously bleak picture of the travails of early African-American performers in Hollywood

• Entertainment

'At Middleton' first feature film for Baltimore-born director

Adam Rodgers and his writing partner struck out on their own -- and the result, 'At Middleton,' opens in theaters Friday.

• Baltimore City Paper

Spike Lee's America, by David Sterritt

• Baltimore City Paper

MK Asante's new memoir dissects inner-city life with fierce intelligence

• Baltimore City Paper

Mia Wasikowska stars in South Korean auteur's suspenseful English-language debut

• Baltimore City Paper

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Mission of Burma, Sacrificial Slaughter, and more

• TV

'Dancing with the Stars: All Stars' recap, Michael Jackson night

On Dacnign with the Stars: All Stars, the contestants danced to Michael Jackson hits.

• Baltimore City Paper

Spike Lee returns to his chronicles of Brooklyn, but proves he's at home in any film

• Features

Congressman Elijah Cummings lives in a Spike Lee joint

Congressman makes it clear to Howard University audience that he's not living the posh life.

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UMBC president named among world's most influential leaders

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III, whose trailblazing work in educating minority students in the sciences has catapulted the university onto the national stage, has been named one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine.

• Baltimore City Paper

Sundance fave has everything going for it but a resistance to queer coming-of-age cliche

• Ray Romano

'Good Wife,' Spike Lee, C-SPAN win Peabodys

• John Travolta

Library of Congress picks: 'Let There Be Light' to 'Trip Down Market Place'

• Spike Lee

TV, Katrina and shared memory: Highlights this week

• Spike Lee

Michael Jackson's death sparks TV discussion of race

• Spike Lee

HBO documentary: seeing Katrina from ground zero

• Spike Lee

An emotional 'Miracle'

• Arts and Culture

Hill alive with 'Sound of Music'

• Spike Lee

Nokia, filmmaker team up

• Spike Lee

A Wider Lens

• Kirk Douglas

Douglas plays sleazy journalist in Wilder's 'Ace in the Hole'

• NBCUniversal

David Steele's blog

• Jayne Mansfield

DVD CHECK

• Nicolas Cage

A NEW STONE AGE

• Fashion

Drop Dead Gorgeous

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Clubs link like-minded readers

• Steve Martin

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