A lot of the activity that takes place on Facebook tends to be fairly frivolous and light-hearted in nature. Many of us log in to leave an inside joke on a friend's wall or look at pictures of that cute guy or girl from that ...
When I heard that The Strand was doing a production of A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, I literally jumped with excitement. I started reading the book by the same name over the summer and the little yellow and turquoise paperback has remained ...
Twenty years ago, Kendra Kopelke was teaching creative writing at the Waxter Center and marveling at the creative energy in her eighty- and ninety-year-old students, when it came to her: why not start a literary journal to give a creative voice ...
It makes a certain kind of sense that Gregg Wilhelm's spanking new office sits in what used to be an old bank. Wilhelm's nonprofit organization CityLit Project became colleagues with the University of Baltimore’s School of Communications Design last year and his new ...
I remember when Harold Pinter died a couple of years ago. The specific date is not important, but I was at a Chinese restaurant in Philadelphia called Yang Ming where my parents and I celebrated New Years every year and my fiancé Tom had his ...
Our Town is a new grant opportunity from the National Endowment for the Arts that is designed to fund innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists,are looking to create livable, sustainable neighborhoods with enhanced quality of life, ...
I initially wanted to attend the symposium The Image of the Black in Western Art to explore the potential of visual art as a tool for activism, especially in the instance of racism, which is strongly tied to visual experience. We see the ...
Baltimore, as is often noted, is a city with one leg bent across the rough Northern industrial and the other splayed out knee deep and muddy, spanning the American South, particularly Appalachia. The recent folk music revival resonates in this city precisely because it ...
In recent years, Baltimore has witnessed a surprising renaissance in two important areas: the arts and technology. Even in the midst of a Great Recession, an increasing number of technology entrepreneurs have emerged to build a buzzing hive of innovation, events, and idea-sharing. At the ...
Get ready to pull the plug. We are approaching an age where we are not limited by technology or geography, according to David Houle, who spoke to the arts and culture community at the Walters Art Museum on October 8, 2010. Taking the ...