★ Bent Ear
The Nature of Things
John Ruppert is known for using foundry-work to create “natural” or organic shapes. In the 'Nature of Things,' currently at…
PS None
Blades of grass tickled the bare-feet of a couple sipping cold beer and reading paperback books as they lazily swung…
Giordano’s Giant Nudes
Giordano’s project may have done more than anything else to commemorate thirty years of Artscape, and it wasn’t even part…
Reflections On Collaboration
Edward Glaeser argues that, as the subtitle puts it "Our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier.”…
Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival
Maryland Traditions' Folklife Festival felt a lot like living in Baltimore: there were so many cool things going on at…
When the Stoop Says I Do, It Really Means It
Like the great Greek playwright, the humor looks upon our marital foibles with a generous grace. Like the unscripted stories…
Leviticus Lockjaw
Leviticus Lockjaw was born on Halloween night of 1984 from Madonna and marijuana. At least, that’s how Chris Lawson—the artist…
Students Protest BSA Budget Cuts
The other morning, I saw big big crowd out on front of the school. About twenty kids stood on all…
Telling: Baltimore
Here’s the deal. Playwright Jonathan Wei interviewed five veterans, and a military wife and mother. All were from Baltimore. …
Song of the Harbor
Sometimes, on nice afternoons in the Inner Harbor, just above the din of shoppers, tourists, strollers, families, and flocks of…
Torso of Diana With Head of Aphrodite
And here is the tragedy. The piece is titled “Torso of Diana with Head of Aphrodite” (allowing the Greek and…
“Protracted Moments”
Grant Whipple pedaled down the bike path. He was thinking, watching, passing through space and time. A small brown gray…
Stoop Storytelling
If the desire for food, sex, and shelter are the most basic of our requirements, telling stories is the most…
Secret Mountains at MICA
Secret Mountains is one of my favorite Baltimore bands. Their recent ep "Rejoice" swirled around in my mind, creating my…
Post-Industrial Hollywood
A striking, small woman in her sixties was wearing a long fur coat, gesturing out at the industrial waste-land that…
Bent Ear
In the Bent Ear, Baynard Woods follows the great writer Joseph Mitchell, in allowing Baltimore's quirkier citizens to bend his…
