Arts and Entertainment Stories

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Best New Film Series: Magic Eye

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Local filmmaker Mary Helena Clark's Magic Eye film series began last January, and with sporadic screenings between two locations, it is gaining some serious underground momentum. Magic Eye provides a ...[MORE]

Best Film Series: The Charles Theatre

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

When we want artistically soulful, intellectually satisfying, and more visually challenging filmgoing, we'll stick with the one that's been giving it to us for decades. As always, the Charles' program...[MORE]

Best Theater, Suburbs: Bengies Drive-In Theatre

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

You know why everybody all over the city is doing "movies under the stars" or whatever else they're calling it? Because seeing a movie at the drive-in absolutely rules, that's why, and they're trying ...[MORE]

Best Movie Theater, City: Landmark Harbor East

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

In all honesty, its programming should be better. The Landmark chain prides itself on exhibiting independent movies, and around the country its theaters--Austin's Dobie, Dallas' Inwood, San Francisco'...[MORE]

Best Publishing House: Publishing Genius

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Adam Robinson's Publishing Genius imprint doesn't win this laurel because of its active web presence at the Everyday Genius blog, nor for the ongoing series of chapbooks from locals such as Lauren Ben...[MORE]

Best Book About Baltimore: Spirit of Place by Sarah Achenbach and Bill McAllen

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Books about Baltimore tend to fall into one of three categories--dense scholarly works about the historical minutiae of this historic seaport town, site-seeing guides for tourists visiting the Inner H...[MORE]

Best Spy Game: The Arms Maker of Berlin by Dan Fesperman

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

What makes the espionage fiction of Sun foreign correspondent Dan Fesperman such a treat is the way he doesn't rely on typical Cold War-era main characters, instead taking very contemporary men--an FB...[MORE]

Best Literary Agent of Change: Michael Kimball

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Baltimore has always had a bit of a literary community, but it feels concentrated in and associated with university departments--Hopkins writing seminars or MICA's poets, for example. Since January 20...[MORE]

Best Mural: Waverly Giant

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Don't get us wrong: We love having a grocery store in Waverly. But the Giant has always been a bit too suburban for our tastes. The parking lot is too big and the three street-facing sides of the buil...[MORE]

Best Place to Buy Art: Directly from Artists

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

If you listened to the fall 2008 panic from New York and Los Angeles, the art market should have imploded by now, taking galleries and artists down with it. Even though that it hasn't happened, the fi...[MORE]

Best Curator: Jamillah James

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

In only two shows, Chicago-transplant Jamillah James has already made an interesting impact on Baltimore's art community. Her Agenda: Queering Popular Media at the Current Gallery and Altered States, ...[MORE]

Best Art Gallery: Gallery Four

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Gallery Four and its gallery-running residents possess an unwavering devotion to professionalism. Each member contributes an applicable skill, be it web design, screen printing, or curatorial ideas, m...[MORE]

Best Makeover: Sarada Conaway and Jackie Milad at Transmodern

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Transmodern 2009 was ripe with so much interactive awesomeness that it's rather unfair to single out one element, but Sarada Conaway and Jackie Milad's "Make-Over" was one of the few performances that...[MORE]

Best Portrait of a Place: East Side Stories: Portraits of a Baltimore neighborhood Then and Now at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Sometimes, foreign movie directors can offer a more illuminating take on America than our home-grown ones; they choose to see different things in what we see everyday. By the same token, sometimes a p...[MORE]

Best Solo Show: Follies, Predicaments, and Other Conundrums; The Works of Laure Drogoul at the Maryland Institute College of Art

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

This mammoth, information-dense, and above all playful show finally put the career of one of the pillars of Baltimore's art community on a pedestal for all to see. And what did Laure Drogoul, curator ...[MORE]

Best Art Worker: Soledad Salamé

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

You can't always judge a local artist's work by where she lives. Take Baltimore-based Chilean native Soledad Salamé, for example. In the past year, she installed her "Where Do You Live?" project,...[MORE]

Best Welcome News for Baltimore Artists: Kresge Art in Baltimore program

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Baltimore artists are rarely flush, but with the economic downturn, many grant programs and would-be art buyers scaled down, leaving those artists that depend on grants and a few sales in trouble. For...[MORE]

Best Multipurpose Space: The Hexagon

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

Formerly the Lo-Fi Social Club and almost exclusively a music venue, the revamped Hexagon Space has transitioned into the most promising multipurpose space in the Station North Arts District. Collecti...[MORE]

Best Trend: DIY Theater

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

In the last year, Baltimore's multi-talented, artistic twentysomethings have demanded the spotlight, pursing an active interest in DIY theater productions. Perhaps best exemplified by overlapping thea...[MORE]

Best New Theater: LOF/T

Arts and Entertainment Winners | 9/16/2009 |

The Load of Fun Theatre--LOF/t, for short--is exactly what Baltimore needed. This multi-use but technically equipped small black-box theater can accommodate just about any type of performance--from sm...[MORE]