★ Columns
Mobtown Microshow: Kane Mayfield
February 16, 2011
This past Thursday we found ourselves, yet again, taking part in another Mobtown Studios Microshow, the music series so remarkable…
Secret Mountains at MICA
February 16, 2011
Secret Mountains is one of my favorite Baltimore bands. Their recent ep "Rejoice" swirled around in my mind, creating my…
COMEDY NOIR
February 16, 2011
The Comedy Noir comic-apocalyptic point of view refuses to pull its punches. It does not allow us to feel reassured,…
Exclusive Video Interview with CEDA and DUME
February 10, 2011
Baltimore has mixed feelings about the artists who often exhibit their work on the neglected and decaying parts of the…
Ceda and Dume
February 9, 2011
Baltimore has mixed feelings about the artists who often exhibit their work on the neglected and decaying parts of the…
Post-Industrial Hollywood
February 9, 2011
A striking, small woman in her sixties was wearing a long fur coat, gesturing out at the industrial waste-land that…
Better Living Through Chemistry Part 2
February 9, 2011
The First Kiss launched a thousand clichés in the minds of the lovers. While apart, they incessantly turned thoughts of…
Better Living Through Chemistry
February 2, 2011
Here’s what happens when two people fall in love: cliché abounds, of an ominous nature. They don’t climb upward into…
Mobtown Microshow: Celebration
January 27, 2011
Story by Brett Yale of Bmore Musically Informed. Last Thursday’s Microshow was a spiritually intimate performance by Celebration, one of…
Sound and Fury Signifying… Oscar.
January 26, 2011
The Oscars are silly but I love them anyway, so here’s my contribution to the water cooler discourse. I would…
Let’s Mess With Texas
January 19, 2011
Many of the two-hundred-plus people gathered at MICA for the CreateBaltimore event on January 15 were hacker/ techies, so tons…
Comedy Noir
January 12, 2011
Sexual deviance, death, stupidity, mental illness, brutality, murder: don’t you love ‘em? I do, but not in the form…
Bent Ear
January 9, 2011
In the Bent Ear, Baynard Woods follows the great writer Joseph Mitchell, in allowing Baltimore's quirkier citizens to bend his…
SCREEN PASS
January 5, 2011
Around this time of year I receive advance screening DVD’s of hopefully award-worthy movies. I get them because I’m in…
Lunatic
December 29, 2010
I am a bit of an eclipse nut. I have seen five total solar eclipses, including one in the Atacama Desert…
19 Degrees in the Shade
December 16, 2010
The winter solstice is coming, and Christmas. Pagan, Christian, Viking Yule, The Hopi Soyal, the Asian Dongzhi: all the northern…
Waldorf Hysteria
December 8, 2010
I can find all kinds of important things to do when I should be editing my film or writing. And…
Experi-mental Film
December 2, 2010
Digging around in the archives I found an experimental film I did at UCLA. I was there getting a master’s…
Migrating Memory
November 24, 2010
I’m a late adopter, by design, and so I am just getting around to messing with services like Vimeo. There’s…
The Renaissance Will Be Televised
November 17, 2010
In two days I had to start shooting the movie – a low budget indie, yes, but a complicated one…
