Have you ever been in an art gallery and thought This could use some more action? Well, some­one had a sim­i­lar thought and four years ago founded the Baltimore-based Super Art Fight, a col­lec­tion of artists who go head to head in com­pe­ti­tion. The group describes the fights they put on as part Pic­tionary and...
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Back in Jan­u­ary, I used my iPad to spend $1.99 for Presto­B­ingo Shapes, a kids’ app put out by Joyce Hes­sel­bert and occa­sional City Paper con­trib­u­tor Dave Plunkert’s Spur Design in Baltimore. The app has a series of clean, col­or­ful illus­tra­tions that use shapes to make up an image of, say, a boy in a...
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Clip­per Mill’s Cor­radetti Glass Stu­dio is offer­ing up a unique way to cel­e­brate Mother’s Day: work­shops on glass-blowing a col­or­ful glass flower. The gallery fea­tures works for ogling and for sale, all of which are cre­ated on site by Anthony Cor­radetti and his team; vis­i­tors to the stu­dio can watch the glass-blowers at work...
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Every­man Theatre’s recently announced 2012-’13 sea­son will include two final shows at its cur­rent loca­tion on Charles Street, plus four shows at its new Fayette Street loca­tion before it tran­si­tions fully to the new space for the 2013-’14 sea­son. All of the shows in the six-show run are Bal­ti­more premieres. The sea­son opens with Don­ald...
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Seafood con­nois­seur Ben Sar­gent recently came through Bal­ti­more, and he brought his cam­eras with him. A chef, radio per­son­al­ity, and–we kid you not–one-time orga­nizer of an under­ground, pos­si­bly ille­gal lobster-roll enter­prise, Sar­gent is now in the sec­ond sea­son of a new project: the TV show Hook, Line, and Din­ner on the Cook­ing Chan­nel. The episode,...
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Con­tro­ver­sial Brook­lyn illus­tra­tor and under­ground comics artist Ben­jamin Marra has a new solo exhibit open­ing up at Hampden’s Spur Gallery (co-owned by City Paper con­trib­u­tor David Plunk­ert), an off­shoot of local design stu­dio Spur Design. Marra’s work, which tends to be on the lurid side, has attracted clients rang­ing from Play­boy to Vice to Mar­vel...
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Next Thurs­day, Shoes in the Bed Pro­duc­tions will dive deep into the his­tory of one of America’s most momen­tous decades, screen­ing its doc­u­men­tary Mr. Soul!: Ellis Hai­zlip and the Birth of Black Power TV. In the midst of the civil rights move­ment, and right on the heels of the 1968 riots that thun­dered through...
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The Bal­ti­more Humane Soci­ety is team­ing up with the Bal­ti­more Shake­speare Fac­tory to put their ani­mals into the spot­light, then hope­fully into the home of a lov­ing fam­ily. This month the Bal­ti­more Shake­speare Fac­tory is per­form­ing Mac­beth. Dif­fer­ent dogs or cats from the Humane Soci­ety will assume the role of “Man’s Best Friend” in each per­for­mance,...
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In des­per­ate need of a cre­ative out­let? Sub­mit 10 Bal­ti­more, a new pro­gram that offers writ­ers a chance to hear their words acted out dur­ing the devel­op­ment process, is in des­per­ate need of your talent. If you have a play—with or with­out music—a poem, or a short story in any stage of pro­duc­tion, send it...
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Inspired by the erotic story “Teibele And Hur­mizah” by Isaac Bashe­vis Singer, Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity stu­dent Tamar Nach­many has adapted the story into a play that incor­po­rates a con­gru­ous mix of Eng­lish and Yiddish. Aided by a grant from the Woodrow Wil­son Fel­low­ship at Johns Hop­kins, Nach­many embarked on a jour­ney to research the pres­ence...
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Glass Mind The­atre will break the prover­bial fourth wall this Fri­day, invit­ing audi­ence mem­bers to come on stage and par­tic­i­pate in its sec­ond annual 360 Sto­ry­telling event. The idea, first con­ceived by an online the­ater com­mu­nity known as 2 a.m. The­ater, is sim­ple: Every­one has a story, and, what’s more, a right to share it....
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Children’s book illus­tra­tor and writer Eric Carle has more than 40 books in print, and some of his most beloved, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, The Very Hun­gry Cater­pil­lar, and Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, will come to life at the Patri­cia and Arthur Mod­ell Per­form­ing Arts Cen­ter at...
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