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Baltimore For D.C.
April 20, 2011
What else happens in DC? Well, HBO’s new series VEEP is picked up, and production will start in the…
Wow! Maryland Film Fest Preview
April 13, 2011
Last Tuesday night I attended the programming preview for the 2011 Maryland Film Festival, and got a small taste of…
Screenings From Asbury Park
April 6, 2011
When my sometimes-collaborator, Joe Basile, invited me to New Jersey to check out the Garden State Film Festival last weekend,…
Song of the Harbor
April 6, 2011
Sometimes, on nice afternoons in the Inner Harbor, just above the din of shoppers, tourists, strollers, families, and flocks of…
The Future of Cinema
March 30, 2011
These movie ideas from college students tell us something about the minds of young people, and the perhaps the future,…
Torso of Diana With Head of Aphrodite
March 23, 2011
And here is the tragedy. The piece is titled “Torso of Diana with Head of Aphrodite” (allowing the Greek and…
Spring Fever
March 23, 2011
There’s a five-star restaurant just for hit men and prostitutes. Even when you pull off a messy hit in the…
Comedy Noir Part 3 of 3
March 16, 2011
An old saying about country music I heard from singer/songwriter Pam Tillis: “When it’s good it’s okay, but when it’s…
“Protracted Moments”
March 9, 2011
Grant Whipple pedaled down the bike path. He was thinking, watching, passing through space and time. A small brown gray…
Intolerance Lives
March 9, 2011
On Saturday night I went to the Colossal Spectacle: Boister performing an original score to D W Griffith’s 1916 film…
SEE THESE MOVIES NOW
March 2, 2011
Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill opens Friday, March 4, at the Charles. The Putty Hill's opening night gala party is…
Stoop Storytelling
February 24, 2011
If the desire for food, sex, and shelter are the most basic of our requirements, telling stories is the most…
Conflict Theory
February 23, 2011
On Friday, March 4th, Matt Porterfield’s PUTTY HILL will enjoy its official Baltimore premiere at the Charles. Everybody in…
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…
