Articles by Anna Ditkoff

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Curtain Time

Curtain Time | 11/18/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

JUST DANCE Traditional Indian and modern dance comes to Theatre Project (45 W. Preston St., [410] 539-3091) Nov. 20-21 courtesy of Washington-based Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. This pe...[MORE]

Boys in the Hood: A gritty look at life in the drug game transfixes at Arena Players

Stage | 11/18/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Actor Laurence Fishburne wrote Riff Raff, his first and, it appears, only play, in eight days while he was filming a movie. And--and this is really going to piss off struggling playwrights--it's a gre...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 11/18/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 9 Murders this Year: 200 Monday, Nov. 9 3:20 p.m. Kenneth Ray Jones, a 46-year-old African-American man, died at a local hospital. The day before, at 2:47 p.m., Jones an...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 11/11/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 4 Murders this Year: 191 Tuesday, Nov. 3 6 p.m. Police discovered a dark-gray car that had been in an accident in the 1300 block of West Fayette Street by Franklin Square. Jos...[MORE]

New Restaurants

Feedbag | 11/6/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Despite the economic downturn that has taken the life of several local restaurants (RIP Bicycle and Brass Elephant), brave souls continue to join Baltimore's culinary landscape. Milan, which promises ...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 11/4/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 3 Murders this Year: 187 Monday, Oct. 26 10:15 p.m. Joshua McKinny, a 24-year-old African-American man, was pronounced brain dead at an area hospital. McKinny was shot two day...[MORE]

Hells Belles: An over the top Christmas show feels like too much, too soon

Stage | 11/4/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

It was jarring to hear Christmas carols on a Sunday afternoon in October. Even the woman handing out tickets at Vagabond seemed perplexed by it. "What are we listening to?" she asked of the holiday ...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 10/28/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 3 Murders this Year: 184 The death of Constantine Frank, a 54-year-old Caucasian man, was added to the homicide rolls this week. On July 29 at 8 p.m., an employee of Frank's b...[MORE]

Monster's Ball: Baltimore's newest theater company makes an energetic debut

Stage | 10/28/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

It's easy to forget that The Rocky Horror Show was a stage play before it was a picture show. Originally performed in London in 1973, the play was Richard O'Brien's homage to B-movies. Two years later...[MORE]

What's on Tap: Special and Seasonal Brews Around Town

Feedbag | 10/22/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

In addition to faves Resurrection and Ozzy, the Brewer's Art (1106. N. Charles St., [410] 547-6925) is offering Cerberus Triple; Saison Pecore; Clamper's Ale, a grisette or Belgian-style farmhouse al...[MORE]

Murder Ink Update

Murder Ink | 10/21/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

In this week's Murder Ink, we reported on the sentence Melanie Blevins, a 23-year-old Caucasian woman, received after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the death of her infant son. B...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 10/21/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 5 Murders this Year: 181 Tuesday, Oct. 13 8:46 a.m. A resident of the Saint Josephs neighborhood in Southwest Baltimore called police and told them a body could be found in t...[MORE]

Surreal Genius: Drama and farce come together in an enthralling work

Stage | 10/14/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

There’s absolutely no way Hysteria can work. It’s part broad farce, part serious drama. It wants you to take a lisping Salvador Dali seriously and giggle at Sigmund Freud’s slapstick antics. There’s j...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 10/14/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 5 Murders this Year: 176 Due to the Columbus Day holiday, this week's column only covers homicides from Oct. 5 to Oct. 9. Any additional homicides will be covered online at c...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 10/7/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 3 Murders this Year: 171 The death of Ethel Henderson, an 85-year-old African-American woman, was added to the homicide rolls this week. On March 8 at 5:20 p.m. in Rosemont, Hend...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 9/30/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders This Week: 2 Murders This Year: 169 Friday, Sept. 25 1:15 a.m. Police were called to the 2100 block of Sinclair Lane near Clifton Park Golf Course for an assault. When they arrived they ...[MORE]

Murder Ink Sept. 9-16

Murder Ink | 9/17/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

The May 19 death of Michael Chase, a 47-year-old African-American man, was added to the homicide rolls this week. Chase was shot on Aug. 20, 1988; he was 26 at the time. Chase was walking in the 1500 ...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 9/9/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 5 Murders this Year: 153 Because of the Labor Day holiday, this week's column only covers homicides from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. Any murders over the weekend will be addressed onl...[MORE]

Murder Ink

Murder Ink | 9/2/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Murders this Week: 4 Murders this Year: 148 Tuesday, Aug. 25 2:12 p.m. In the middle of the afternoon, Nolan Evans, a 40-year-old African-American man, was shot repeatedly in the 3400 block of G...[MORE]

Dogwood Reopening?

Feedbag | 8/31/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

In our last post we mentioned that The Baltimore Sun listed Dogwood as closed due to the recession, even though Dogwood's web site said it was just closed for August. Well, Feedbag finally heard back ...[MORE]

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Charm City Roller Girls Try-Outs

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 11/18/2009

In Whip It, 17-year-old Bliss discovers roller derby, telling one of the wheeled brawlers that they are her heroes. The roller diva replies, "Put some skates on, be your own hero." Well, you can be yo...[MORE]

[sic]

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 11/18/2009

Melissa James Gibson's play [Sic] is about nothing, and not in a Jerry Seinfeld what's-the-deal-with-insert-innocuous-everyday-item-here kind of way--though it does have comedic elements. It has no pl...[MORE]

Scenes Play

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 11/11/2009

OK kids, prepare yourselves, because this one is going to get really meta. Forget play within a play: In Scenes Play, writer/co-director/performer Theresa Columbus is going to reference herself into a...[MORE]

Don Pasquale

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 11/11/2009

Fictional characters always gotta do things the hard way. In the opera Don Pasquale, the titular wealthy 19th-century Italian decides he wants to get married even though he's in his 70s, which back th...[MORE]

Meet the Authors with Alice McDermott, Gwen Ifill, and Craig Symonds

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 11/11/2009

St. John's College loves it some books--the Annapolis school's philosophy is based on reading and discussing "great books" instead of textbooks and tests--so it's no surprise that it uses a discussion...[MORE]

D.C DanceSport Inferno: Amateur and Collegiate Ballroom Competition

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 11/4/2009

Ballroom has enjoyed something of a resurgence of late, between Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and weird knock-offs like Dance Your Ass Off. Not to mention the swing revival, whic...[MORE]

Stoop Storytelling: Kitchen Confidential

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 10/28/2009

These days chefs are stars. You can't change the channel without seeing one of them hosting a program where they show you how very easy or very hard it is to do what they do. The funny thing is, they'...[MORE]

Gilded Lily Burlesque

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 10/28/2009

For better or, usually, for worse, adult Halloween is all about the sexy costumes. If you go to a costumed event tonight, you're bound to see sexy nurses, sexy maids, sexy cops. Why not cut out the ca...[MORE]

Beowulf

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 10/21/2009

This whole Beowulf resurgence is getting out of hand. First, Angelina Jolie goes all CGI in a movie version, then Baltimore's Annex Theater took the warrior on the road. Now, Baltimore Shakespeare Fes...[MORE]

Julius Caesar in Haunted Ruins

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 10/21/2009

If you are a Shakespeare nerd, then this event is two good things rolled into one. First, you get to hear a talk from Patrick Spottiswoode, the director of education at London's Globe Theater--a recre...[MORE]

Kiss Kiss: An Evening of Magical Realism

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 10/21/2009

Through Oct. 25, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 4 p.m. Thursday and Sunday, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Theater, 1000 Hilltop Circle, (410) 455-2476, umbc.edu/theatre/kisskiss.ht...[MORE]

Feminist Sex: A Panel Discussion on Being Anti-Sexist and Sex-Positive

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 10/14/2009

If there is one thing everyone can agree on, it's that nothing is less sexy than a feminist. I mean who would want to fuck Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, or Scarlett Johansson? And what's a bigger dick...[MORE]

Judy Kaye at CenterStage Cabaret

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 10/14/2009

With so many fiery young theater companies popping up all over town, CenterStage is starting to feel like the elder statesman, which is never a sexy title. Well, CenterStage is shaking it up a bit wit...[MORE]

Dyke School Musical

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 9/30/2009

Let's face it: If you're an interesting person at all, you probably hated high school. Well, it's time to have a corrective experience by attending the high school you wish you had gone to at Charm Ci...[MORE]

King's Grilled Kabob

Restaurant review: by Anna Ditkoff | 9/23/2009

King's Pizza is fine--it's nothing special but it does the job. So when King's opened up a kabob restaurant next door, we weren't in a big rush to get over there. Now, we wish we had been. The dolled...[MORE]

Eurydice

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 9/23/2009

Single Carrot Theatre takes on Pulitzer Prize-nominee Sarah Ruhl's take on the Orpheus myth, Eurydice. If you're not familiar with the story, Orpheus and Eurydice were crazy in love, but right after t...[MORE]

Pigtown Festival

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 9/9/2009

You gotta love Pigtown. Even if you've never been to the seriously old-school neighborhood by the B&O Railroad Museum, you have to respect a place that refuses to accept the gentrification-friendl...[MORE]

Constitution Day Symposium: “How Soon is ‘Equal Rights Now'? Women’s Rights After Women’s Lib”

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 9/9/2009

It's easy to take women's rights for granted. We've grown up in a generation where we were told we could do anything and have proven that true. Still, it's hard to find a woman, even in this country, ...[MORE]

Meditate with a 600-Year-Old Goddess

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 9/2/2009

September is here, a month that even for those us who aren't in school signals the start of one of the most hectic event-filled times of the year. Hell, we've already seen Halloween candy on supermark...[MORE]

Artist at Noon Lecture Series: Lani Irwin

Event Preview review: by Anna Ditkoff | 8/26/2009

MICA students and nosy art lovers can see what the Genevieve McMillan/Reba Stewart Chair in Painting for the upcoming academic year has to offer today. Figurative painter and Maryland native Lani Irwi...[MORE]