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The Killers Live from the Royal Albert Hall at the Senator Theatre
By Bret McCabe | 11/5/2009
This past July, Las Vegas tight-pants rock quartet the Killers sold out two nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, evenings recorded for the upcoming The Killers Live from the Royal Albert Hall CD/DVD/Blu-ray, due out Nov. 10. Tonight through Nov. 11, the Senator Theatre offers a sneak peak of that concert film (this limited-engagement release was confirmed too late to make yesterday's edition of the paper). ... [MORE]
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Will-e Robo at the Baltimore Comedy factory Oct. 22
By Nicholas Harsh | 11/3/2009
When Will-e Robo took the stage Oct. 22 at the Baltimore Comedy Factory, he had a lot working against him. The joint was less than half full and the audience was lethargic. To warm himself up, Robo drew inspiration from the crowd in front of him. No one was safe from his blunt opinions and twisted imagination, as he systematically dismantled the audience's comfort zone. First, he belittled a "premature laugher" in the front row, and sarcastically asked a man in a wheel chair if he "needed a seat ... [MORE]
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Normals/Red Room Building Sells
By Lee Gardner | 10/29/2009
The Greenmount Avenue building that houses both Normals Books and Records and the Red Room performance space was sold at auction earlier today, but it looks like business as usual for both establishments. Details on the deal are still sketchy; Steph Campfield, the sale agent for former owner Property Homes LLC, has yet to return a message left on his cell phone. But Normals co-proprietor (and occasional City Paper contributor) Rupert Wondolowski says he's met the as-yet-unidentified new owner a ... [MORE]
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Gallery Imperato Prepares to Move
By Bret McCabe | 10/28/2009
Gallery Imperato sent out an e-mail press release last Friday, Oct. 23, announcing immediate relocation plans: Gallery Imperato is in the process of relocating. We will no longer be conducting business at 921 E. Fort Ave. We look forward to announcing our new location and date for a grand re-opening celebration soon! Until then, we'll be available by appointment only. Call us at 443.257.4166 to make arrangements to view artwork or to schedule a studio visit. Gallery director Cheri Landry confirm ... [MORE]
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Normals/Red Room Building Up for Auction
By Lee Gardner | 10/28/2009
The building at the corner of 31st Street and Greenmount Avenue (3048 Greenmount Ave.) goes up for auction at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 29. This fact wouldn't be particularly notable in this era of wholesale foreclosures except that the building houses venerable used bookstore/subcultural center Normals Books and Records and its performance-space offshoot the Red Room, incubator for much of the city's experimental music community (including the High Zero Festival) over the past decade. The propert ... [MORE]
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DJ Spooky delivers keynote address at MICA's Transformations: New Directions in Black Art
By Bret McCabe | 10/23/2009
Paul Miller—better known by his creative handle DJ Spooky—remixed the keynote lecture last night to kickoff the Maryland Institute College of Art's Transformations: New Directions in Black Art conference that runs through this weekend. And he did it with a casual brio: his nearly 90-minute chat jumped through his own background—a circuitous journey through his Washington, D.C. childhood (at Connecticut and R streets near Dupont Circle) as the son of the Dean of Howard Universit ... [MORE]
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Janet and Walter Sondheim Award 2010 Deadline Dec. 18
By Bret McCabe | 10/22/2009
A Baltimore Office of Promotions and the Arts press release this morning outlined the time table for the 2010 Janet and Walter Sondheim Award. This fifth annual Sondheim prize will be the first shepherded by new Visual Arts Coordinator Jim Lucio (a former City Paper graphic designer and contributing photographer), who recently stepped into the staff position vacated by Gary Kachadourian. As in year's past, the jury-selected winner receives the significant $25,000 prize. According to the press re ... [MORE]
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Remembering Donald Goines
By Bret McCabe | 10/22/2009
Thank you, BET, for reminding everybody that it was on this day that 1970s crime fiction lost one of its most immediate storytellers: Detroit's Donald Goines and his common-law wife were murdered 35 years ago today. Revisit CP sister paper the Detroit Metro Times Goines remembrance that ran when the only Goines novel movie adaptation, director Ernest Dickerson's 2004 Never Die Alone starring DMX, hit screens. ... [MORE]
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PBS' Art in the 21st Century
By Bret McCabe | 10/21/2009
The 40th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, commemorated on American cable television with the IFC's Monty Python Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut), expectedly earned its fair share of digital news ink (in everything from Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times to Punchline magazine and Television Without Pity). Over on PBS, though, a different documentary series has quietly continued its solid exploration of contemporary art with intelligence and ... [MORE]
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Local Art: Annual Mayor's Cultural Town Meeting Postponed to 2010
By Bret McCabe | 10/21/2009
A press release sent out by Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Communications Associate Dionne McConkey Oct. 12 announced that the Mayor's Cultural Town Meeting, an annual local summit where Baltimore's arts community got to speak with and to the mayor about the arts' place in the city, has been postponed until October 2010. This year's meeting was previously scheduled for this evening, but will now "occur every other year during Arts & Humanities Month," according to the press relea ... [MORE]
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Total Conflicts of Interest: Pimping City Paper Alumni
By Bret McCabe | 10/20/2009
Erstwhile City Paper contributor Violet Glaze becomes a full-fledged writer today, and not a mere ink-stained hack like the rest of us here in alt-weekly journalism. Her debut paranormal erotic e-book, Hotel Butterfly, comes out today. Congrats. Also congrats to former CP contributing illustrator Greg Houston, whose graphic novel Vatican Hustle came out this month via NBM. Support freelance writers and illustrators. G-d knows periodical publications can barely afford to anymore. ... [MORE]
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Gospel Hill Screens at the Senator
By Lee Gardner | 10/16/2009
We don't know if searchlights will be sweeping the sky outside the Senator Theatre this weekend as they used to when it hosted premieres, but the Belle of Govans is definitely presenting a marquee event this Saturday, Oct. 17, at 8 p.m.: the Baltimore theatrical debut of Gospel Hill, a 20th Century Fox movie with strong local ties. Jeffrey Pratt Gordon has made a name for himself in Baltimore's film community, both behind the camera (doing props and set dressing for everything from Serial Mom to ... [MORE]
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Maryland Film Festival Now Accepting Films for 2010
By Lee Gardner | 10/14/2009
The Tenth Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference Takes the Bus
By Chris Landers | 10/9/2009
The crowd at the 10th annual conference of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society that gathered in Baltimore Sept. 30-Oct. 3 was older, but not uniformly so, and perhaps a bit tweedy, but not entirely. The society's vice-president, Kirk Curnutt, a novelist who teaches at Troy University in Alabama, was not tweedy at all. Curnutt wore Chuck Taylors and sunglasses and said the conference included roughly 130 attendees this year. "Many of them are teachers," he said, "so they aren't arriving until the wee ... [MORE]
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The Baker Artist Awards Return
By Bret McCabe | 10/2/2009
Yes, that's right: the shadowy organization/benefactors who last May awarded 10 local artists a total of $82,000-seven $1,000 winners determined by a popular vote (that was never disclosed) and three $25,000 winners picked by an unnamed group of jurors-is back with its 2010 call for entries. The Baker Artist Awards 2010 officially opened for nominations Oct. 1, with online voting to end Feb. 15, 2010. May the self-promotion begin. ... [MORE]
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Film: Soul of a People at the Enoch Pratt
By Bret McCabe | 10/2/2009
The Enoch Pratt Free Library starts off its month-long series of programs about the 1930s Federal Writers Project tomorrow by screening excerpts from Soul of a People, a documentary about the writers involved in the project, such as the late Studs Terkel. It's based on a book by David Taylor, who leads a discussion following the screening. Antique cars will be displayed in front of the library, and Craig Gildner and the Blue Sky 5 Band perform '30s swing music following the screening. Soul of a ... [MORE]
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Quick Sketches: Sept. 24-Oct. 2
By Bret McCabe | 9/24/2009
RUSH HOUR: The opening reception for Maryland Art Place's Sevent Annual Curator's Incubator takes place this evening, with a 5 p.m. reception and a series of gallery talks and sound performances starting at 6 p.m. Curators include: Erstwhile City Paper contributor Shelly Blake-Plock, whose Art of the Set-Up: Sound Objects as Artifacts features familiar sound/multi-media artists Peter Blasser, Alessandro Bosetti, Andy Hayleck, Bonnie Jones, Melissa Moore, and Mike Muniak. Rachel Sitkin, whose ... [MORE]
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The Films of 1989: Towson University's Department of Electronic Media and Film's Fall 2009 film series
By Bret McCabe | 9/9/2009
Towson University's Department of Electronic Media and Film recently announced its fall 2009 film series, and it's a doozy: a 20th anniversary celebration of the movies of 1989. Don't expect the Oscar fodder from that year, such as Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, Peter Weir's Dead Poet's Society, or Bruce Beresford's Best Picture-winning Driving Miss Daisy. While there are a few nominees and award-winners in the list-My Left Foot, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Glory, Kenneth Branagh ... [MORE]
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Quick Studies: Aug. 27- Sept. 2
By Bret McCabe | 8/27/2009
OPENINGS Conjurations, works by Jo Smail, opens Sept. 1 at the Goya Contemporary with an opening reception Sept 12 from 5-7 p.m. Sublime Structure-a group show featuring , Kim Manfredi, City Paper contributing photographer Christopher Myers, Rachel Schmidt, and Lu Zhang-opens Sept. 2 at the C. Grimaldis Gallery with a reception from 6-8 p.m. Bernard McGibbon's works open Sept. 1 at the Art Gallery of Fells Point CLOSINGS Convergence '09 ends at Maryland Art Place Aug. 29, and inaugurates its Rus ... [MORE]
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RIP: Ellie Greenwich
By Bret McCabe | 8/27/2009
Given the passing of such headline-making names of American royalty—Ted Kennedy, Dominick Dunne—yesterday, the death of a 1960s female songwriter might not generate the same amount of press. But Ellie Greenwhich, who died from a heart attack Aug. 26 at the age of 68, was one of the most gifted and successful songwriters during a decade overstuffed with Ebola-contagious catchy pop. Together with her songwriting partner/husband Jeff Barry, the Brooklyn-born Greenwich cranked out pop ge ... [MORE]
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