Last week, we went to Bluegrass Tavern (1500 S. Hanover St., 244-5101, bluegrasstavern.com) to check out their new spring menu, but started with the charcuterie plate (happy hour is four items for $10) and some rye at the bar (The Willett rye is especially good, with a nice spicy kick). We ordered the smoked...
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On our annual quest to find the coldest beer in Baltimore, we went down to Curtis Bay in hopes of a soft shell crab sandwich and some cold beer at Taylor’s 5000, but discovered that “this establishment is ordered closed/ no sales by the board of liquors license commissions.” Disappointed, starving, and thirsty, we stumbled...
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In honor of his Birthday, we went back through the archives to find CP‘s best stories about, or even by, John Waters. At the top of the list is this 1984 interview Waters did with Arthur Frederick Goode III, who was on Death Row in Florida. “Parking my rented car in the lot,” Waters...
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Saturday, April 20, Artichoke Haircut, which teamed up with Publishing Genius, Shattered Wig, Ink Press, and 5ive:Ten will host the “This Won’t Make Sense Literature Carnival,” which the mag defines as “an absolutely ridiculous reading” at the Metro Gallery. Artichoke Haircut, a literary arts magazine, which just published its fifth issue, was founded, the editors...
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The Baltimore office for Promotion and the Arts announced the six finalists for the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, who will exhibit their work at the Walters Museum from June 29-Aug. 11. The winner, to be announced, on July 13, will receive a $25,000 prize. The finalists are Caitlin Cunningham (look for our...
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April 23 is Shakespeare’s birthday and, in a twist like that of Jefferson and Adams both dying on July 4, the day that the Bard and Miguel de Cervantes both died. Partly for these reasons it is also World Book Night, a celebration of the pleasures of reading. Each year a consortium of librarians...
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The Maryland Film Festival announced a third round of feature-length films to be included in this year’s lineup today. So far, there have been a lot of films with local connections, such as Lotfy Nathan’s much-anticipated 12 O’Clock Boys, Matthew Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker, and If We Shout Loud Enough, the documentary...
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At the CityLit Festival, Saturday, April 13, Jen Michalski read from her forthcoming novel The Tide King, about Stanley Polenksy, a Polish-American from Baltimore, whose mother gives him an herb that promises eternal life as he heads off to World War II. Most of what Michalski read depicts the relationship of Polensky and another Private...
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So where is the CityLit Festival’s after-party? Well, it’s not an official after-part, but you might as well keep the lit going with Smartish Pace‘s Issue 19 reading and party. Ten bucks’ll get you beer, wine, a copy of the issue, and readings by Michael Collier, Aaron Belz, Joseph Capista, Patricia Davis, Deborah Doolittle, Hayden Saunier and...
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In a story filled with AP images of Baltimore blight and not much else, the UK’s Daily Mail marvels that “Five years after The Wire left screens… the real Baltimore is still poverty-plagued city of series.” What, did they think a TV show was going to solve that shit? Amid the photographs are generalized...
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The Maryland Film Festival has continued to roll-out the 2013 lineup. The latest batch of films includes Prince Avalon, David Gordon Green’s new feature; Hit and Stay, about the Catonsville Nine, by CP contributor Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk; I Am Divine, a documentary about drag-icon and John Waters collaborator/ star; and Leviathan, which...
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As the Hollywood Reporter noted yesterday, Strand Releasing acquired U.S. distribution rights to Matthew Porterfield’s new film I Used to Be Darker, set for a local premiere at the Maryland Film Festival in May. When the film opened at Sundance in January, we talked to Porterfield about the business of film, Baltimore, the transition...
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Sizzlin’ Summer Sizzlin’ Summer: Summer in Baltimore is a sensory explosion, from the scent of Old Bay-smothered steamed crabs and the taste of marshmallow-topped chocolate snoballs to the smell of Ocean City salt water mixed with sunscreen and the vision of fireflies. 5/15/2013