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I love my dead gay son: Patrick Labyorteaux and Lance Fenton in Heathers | Image by retroslashers.net 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...
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Christopher Myers’ “Untitled 93.5723″ | Image by cgrimaldisgallery.com 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
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| Image by retrosellers.com/features64.htm 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...
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Still from Shirley Clarke’s “Skyscraper” | Image by moma.org Local writer and New York University cinema studies PhD candidate Martin Johnson (a City Paper contributor) kicks off a new film series tonight at the 14 Karat Cabaret. With Nineteen23, which runs every third Friday of the month, Johnson wants to focus on: films that...
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I’m a horrible blogger. Horrible. And as a current journalist who, perhaps foolishly, harbors hopes and dreams of continuing to be a journalist in the future, I realize I’m not only way behind the blogging (and Twittering) curve, I’m also not properly embracing and/or wrapping my head around coming up with good right-now news...
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| Image by From studio360.org/yore/images/Technology/Tech1.html Typical overwhelming Monday deadlines have meant that I haven’t been able to devote any time to the passing of Merce Cunningham at the age of 90. And in all honesty, many writers are more capable of giving the man his due than I am; I merely wanted to salute...
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Anne Robertson”s “Kafka Kamera” Because I totally and completely suck, I neglected to include a mention of this fascinating, vital, and sporadic experimental film series in this week’s print edition of the paper. Mary Helena Clark’s Magic Eye series aims to spotlight the avant-garde filmmaking, ideally bringing these under-seen and under-circulating films and filmmakers...
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Back in January, local Anthony Bourdain fans were excited to read about a future show featuring a Baltimore visit. That day is soon: On the Monday, July 27 episode of No Reservations, Bourdain and his good friend Zamir visit the Rust Belt, featuring stops in Buffalo, Detroit, and, yes, Baltimore. A teaser-in which Bourdain...
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More Artscape satellite exhibitions open this weekend, and the winner of the 2009 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize will be announced. Friday, July 10 (times denote opening reception) 4-6 p.m.: In Place at Gormley Gallery at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. This Geof Delanoy-curated photography show features Jennifer Dorsey, Jennie Fleming, Leslie...
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And so it starts: The weekend prior to Artscape is the most jam-packed weekend of gallery openings of the summer, and increasingly one of the busiest gallery hopping opportunities of the year. More than 10 opening receptions are going on this weekend-and that’s not counting the opening of the Jessica Walton and Sarada Conaway-curated...
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| Image by bigvisionfilms.com Youth athletics web site Digital Sports has a great story and video report from the June 25 screening of Poet Pride, the excellent documentary about the Dunbar High School basketball program directed by David Manigault. The DVD version of the movie should be hitting local Downtown Locker Room locations by...
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As previously observed, British media is all over The Wire, since it is currently being broadcast in its sequential entirety on BBC Two. So not only is The Guardian‘s Wire web environment one of the more definitive online resources for the Baltimore-set show, but now our former colonial overlord is testing how well viewers...
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