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Students Protest BSA Budget Cuts
May 18, 2011
The other morning, I saw big big crowd out on front of the school. About twenty kids stood on all…
Maryland Film Fest 2011
May 11, 2011
The MFF is a huge success. The streets and restaurants were buzzing, the screenings were well-attended (often packed), the…
Jimmy Joe Roche Has No Tattoos
May 4, 2011
While interviewers, critics, and scholars must try, analytical discussion with the artist seldom sheds light on the meaning or purpose…
Telling: Baltimore
May 4, 2011
Here’s the deal. Playwright Jonathan Wei interviewed five veterans, and a military wife and mother. All were from Baltimore. …
Got Shorty
April 28, 2011
It’s easy to see feature films on the big screen. Every multiplex and arthouse theater across the country slathers the…
Mobtown Microshow: Lo Moda
April 20, 2011
Lo Moda’s strength in this setting is their ability to work space and subtlety into their no wave/post-punk song structures,…
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…
