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Mario Barrett has been one of Baltimore’s biggest representatives in pop music, and he’s still a big deal on Twitter. But he’s also the kind of sleeper R&B star who only gets a big hit every few years, and has to prove he’s still got it every time he comes back out with an...
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Moonrise Festival, the electronic-heavy event slated as Starscape’s successor, has been cancelled, festival organizers announced Wednesday. According to the statement released by organizers and posted on the festival’s website, the final permit required for hosting the event “will not be approved.” The two day festival was to take place at Fort Covington’s Sun Park....
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“I want to take you into my practice room,” Chick Corea told the audience at the Hopkins Club on the Johns Hopkins University campus Monday night. He wanted to take us away from the big stages where he performs on a battery of electric and acoustic keyboards with Return to Forever or his other...
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Baltimore’s Publishing Genius press just announced the creation of a poetry award in honor of poet Chris Toll, who died in September of last year. The Chris Toll Memorial Writing Prize is intended to honor “one poet each year whose work indicates the belief that poetry is the best of all callings, who carries...
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Break out your cutoff jean shorts and prepare yourself for unlimited juice, BluthCon 2013 is coming May 25! We almost blue ourselves when we got word that E.M.P. Collective would be hosting a celebration of what may be the greatest show ever to be cancelled (and luckily revived), Arrested Development. Nolan Cartwright has created...
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Despite what your cool friends will tell you, there is nothing inherently wrong with EDM and dubstep. When done well, EDM and dubstep afford the same animal-brain rewards that fuel supposedly more “sophisticated” dance music. After Baltimore club legend Blaqstarr’s DJ set at the Broom Factory on Saturday night however, a case could be...
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Part II of my Art Walk experience. By Michael Farley This is a small sampling of the work I saw at MICA’s commencement exhibition; things I liked, things I loved, and things that made me think. In the Gateway building, I was immediately attracted to more of Mariam Cooper’s paintings. “Yolk #2″ was...
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Representing lesser known aspects of the New Orleans music scene, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes’ opening set Thursday night at the 8×10 provided a sharp contrast to their headlining counterparts Honey Island Swamp Band. The latter leaning more towards established Louisianan tradition (self-described as “Bayou Americana”), both bands used their sets to showcase...
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By Michael Farley I arrived at MICA’s annual Art Walk preview of the 2013 undergraduate commencement exhibition severely underdressed and totally overwhelmed. The exhibition sprawls across MICA’s growing campus and features over 400 artists. I am always really taken aback by how smart, polished, and mature so much of the work that comes out...
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This Saturday is the Preakness, and the InfieldFest this year features noted Bud Light spokesman Pitbull and those “Thrift Shop” dudes Macklemore and Ryan Lewis as the headliners, which we’re not too psyched about. Especially since there are plenty of artists with Baltimore ties who have written songs that kinda, sorta relate to the...
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OC Alternatives Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar: Assateague Island National Seashore, North Point State Park, Rehoboth Beach, and more 5/15/2013
Real-Life Embarassing Sex Stories Feature: Submitted by City Paper readers 2/13/2013
Charm Offensive Feature: Meet the unpaid, underappreciated, and underprotected stars of underwear football By Violet Levoit 5/22/2013
Murder Ink Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 77 By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/15/2013
City Treasure City Folk: Charlie Riemer kept City Hall running, finishes his own race By Rafael Alvarez 5/22/2013
Crazy Horse Film: Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman puts his focus on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, the French cabaret By Lee Gardner 4/4/2012