Now on view at the BMA, Modernist sculptor David Smith’s “Dida Gondola, 1964,” completed a year before the artist died, is a painted steel freestanding sculpture, a brushy black-and-white. Undoubtedly heavy, but relatively thin-looking, the sculpture appears to balance on the strength of two base-welds. Two wheel feet at the bottom support a rectangle...
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There was a synchronicity to the timing and turn of events surrounding Earl Weaver’s death. The O’s skipper died at sea on an Orioles fantasy cruise ship, while the Baltimore Convention Center prepared to host the Orioles’ FanFest the next day at home. Weaver’s death seemed to be a cue for the Orioles team...
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Note: Today, City Paper begins a series of posts from Sundance Film Festival. Look for further posts here and in the paper. During three decades since it started, the Sundance Film Festival has emerged as the best filter system for reinvigorating the broader mainline film industry with fresh movies, aesthetics and directorial talent. But...
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By Jim Meyer Baltimore sports have had a few kings, Unitas, Brooksie, Cal and Ray, but we’ve only ever had one Earl. Earl Weaver, legendary manager of the Baltimore Orioles, died Friday night. He’s probably already growing tomato plants along the pearly gates and kicking dirt on the Good Lord’s flip-flops. Earl Weaver was...
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Robert Chew was one of those talents you could easily underestimate. If you didn’t already know how much of a powerhouse he was on stage, you could easily pass the quiet, mysterious man sitting in the back of the Arena Players’ theater. I’d known him since I was a teenager. As a theater major...
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It’s not often that the worlds of bail bonds and tech startups overlap, but they do in the Nochumowitz family, founders of Big Boyz Bail Bonds, of the ubiquitous pens, who have branched out as of late with a startup called BetaPunch. And the Nochumowitzes have brought their unique brand of asshole behavior to...
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No offense to Poe or Mencken or anyone else, but Maryland may have lost its greatest writer when Richard Ben Cramer died on Monday night at 62. Cramer, a former reporter for the Sun papers and editor of the JHU News-Letter, would be a national treasure on the basis of What It Takes alone....
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By Chloe Helton-Gallagher For the past 12 years a single week in December has seen the population of Miami swell by over 50,000 people. Drawn by the glittering allure of the self-described “most prestigious art show in the Americas,” attendants of Art Basel Miami Beach pack a surprisingly high proportion of unpractical shoes to...
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Last week, Rolling Stone ran a story about how TV meteorologists—the “weather experts” who have the most contact with the general population—tend to be doubters of the science of climate change. This despite the fact that ragtag conspiracy theorists like NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS),...
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The CP offices were filled with the sounds of “Angels We Have Heard on High” and “Seasons of Love” (from Rent) this morning, thanks to the awesome carolers from La Plata High School in Southern Maryland. The chorus, led by former CP employee Stephanie Ely, spent the morning singing for folks at the Harbor...
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Tonight George Washington, perched upon his Charles St. pedestal, withstood an alien onslaught lasting at least ten or fifteen minutes. Unflustered by the steady barrage of colorful alien bombs bursting around him, the Founder of this country stood steady, like Caesar, and with his lifted hand, which some say looks like a giant cock,...
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Red Emma’s, the collectively run bookstore and cafe, announced that they have signed a lease for 30 W. North Ave., the location beside Liam Flynn’s Ale House occupied by Cyclops Books until this September. The location is part of the North Avenue Market building, owned by Carolyn Frenkil and Mike Schechter, who recently announced...
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City Treasure City Folk: Charlie Riemer kept City Hall running, finishes his own race By Rafael Alvarez 5/22/2013