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Theater owner is caretaker of memories

By Jeff Barker

Apr 13, 2018

If consumers want art to be ethically created, they must put their financial support behind artists that align with those values. This is not an unreasonable demand. Artists can be good people — or, at the very least, not predators.

As one who has personal experience with sexual assault as a college student years ago, I understand those, especially women, who refuse to separate the art from the man who created it. Just as I don't give a pass to Ryan Lochte, a 32-year-old Olympian, for his drunken rampage and lying in Rio last week, I do not give a pass to Nate Parker for what some might regard as a youthful indiscretion in 1999.

By E.R. Shipp

Aug 23, 2016

Puccini's second opera, "Edgar," long regarded as a major flop, revealed its musical qualities in a presentation by Baltimore Concert Opera.

Paul Giamatti as Honore de Balzac, author and debauched coffee addict. The big-body rap artist Action Bronson on tour eating great food and smoking pot in epic quantities. And some of the best backstage reporting on the presidential campaign in any medium. After years of hearing experts say television was on the way out, it might shock some to know that there is actually more TV than ever. Lots more, and the people, performances and topics listed above are included in some of the best, brightest

By David Zurawik

Feb 19, 2016

Well, it's déjà vu all over again. Although a new Star Wars episode took the movie world by storm, the 2016 rewrite, retitled "The Establishment Strikes Back," has all the drama. The Republican establishment has not one, but two full-scale rebellions on its hands.

"Beautiful," the musical about the rise of Carole King, reveals its charms in national tour production at the Kennedy Center.

In Q&A, animator, writer, actor, director Seth MacFarlane talks about his passion for standard songs and arrangements in advance of a concert tour that starts July 16 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

The Modell Center at the Lyric is barely half sold, and demonstrators plan to protest comic's appearance

Golden Globes to new series and talent, service is on a roll

By David Zurawik

Jan 16, 2015

A recap of the Oct. 6 'Dancing with the Stars,' as the stars recount their most memorable years

Sid Caesar deserves better than what he's been getting online today. He deserves some cultural context and honor for the fearless and pioneering figure he was.

Throw in a drag queen and some dog poop and "Spring Breakers" starts to sound like a film the Baltimore cult director could have made himself.

Baltimore cult filmmaker John Waters has spoken. The best film of 2013 is "Spring Breakers," which featured "Disney tween starlets" Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens "undulating, snorting cocaine and going to jail in bikinis."

Chazz Palminteri brings his one-man, 18-character 'A Bronx Tale' to Baltimore for one performance.

Donald L. Symington, a career feature actor who performed on Broadway, film, soap operas and regional theater, died Wednesday of Parkinson's disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 88.

What's better than dinner and a movie, especially when the movie is free.

'Dancing With the Stars' recap, Jacoby Jones, a 'Bachelor,' Andy Dick and more

Rebecca D. Dorsey, the Baltimore-born chanteuse, died Sept. 14 of ovarian cancer at her home in Sea Cliff, N.Y. She was 54.

Like/dislike: Sam Massa, Bin 604

If David Simon's Georgetown University commencement address made some people nervous, it's because he said some things that needed to be said

David Simon urges Georgetown graduates to struggle, in the face of absurdity, to make the world a better place

Obama's nuance is taken for indecisiveness.

The actor discusses embodying the rebel poet and Baltimorean.

Mad Men recap: Or, "So THAT's what they did to accomodate January Jones' pregnancy!"

As the female-centric 'Hunger Games' movie is set to premiere, star Jennifer Lawrence girds for fame in the role of the resourceful Katniss Everdeen

Senior Briefs

A fun recap of 'The Walking Dead' episode 211: 'Judge, Jury, Executioner'

Much of the Baltimore-born actor and author's book 'After Annie' hits close to home

Senior Briefs

Hollywood's biggest fashion parade, the red carpet outside the Oscars, began heating up on Sunday afternoon ahead of the world's top film awards where silent movie "The Artist" is widely seen as the choice for best movie.