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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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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David Eberhardt, 72, was a member of the Baltimore Four, who poured blood on draft files in Baltimore to protest the Vietnam War in 1967. For that he spent 21 months in federal prison, mainly at Lewisburg, Pa. He is a poet with three books of poetry. He is retired from 33 years of ...
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By John Barry I came to Rooms Fall Apart: A Serious Play, a descendent of the Copy Cat Theatre’s Rooms Plays, now put on by Socially Engaged Arts and Performance Projects (SEAPP) as part of the Transmodern festival (though it runs through this weekend), with a bunch of reasons for not liking this non-play,...
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This weekend, Lotfy Nathan won HBO’s Emerging Artist Award at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto for 12 O’Clock Boys, his documentary about Baltimore’s urban dirt bike riders, which premieres locally at the Maryland Film Festival Friday May 10. City Paper spoke to Nathan while he was in Toronto for the festival (see...
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Photos and text by Josh Sisk. Click on images to see full-size.
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The Recher Theatre, a family-owned rock club in Towson, will close in late March after 15 years. When it re-opens in September, the large space on York Road will be a nightclub called Torrent Lounge. Brian Recher, who, along with brothers Steve and Scott, transformed the venue from a billiards room in 1998, said...
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A couple weekends ago, boxer Manny Pacquiao lost a fight to Juan Manuel Marquez, in a non-title bout that had no technical effect on his professional standing, but had a huge effect on his public image: literally overnight, his name went from being synonymous with kicking ass to being synonymous with getting your ass...
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Unregistered Nurse just announced that the “secret headliner” for the second day of U+N Fest on Nov. 10 will be the legendary punk band Moss Icon. For more information visit: http://unbooking.tumblr.com/
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This year’s Pigtown Festival has an incredible line-up of music, featuring the legendary HR, Landis, and headliner Jenny Owen Youngs. 12 pm Karter Jaymes 1 pm HR and The Scotch Bonnets 2 pm Savannah Valentino Band 3 pm The Funky Bass + Beat Known as “F” 4 pm Margot MacDonald 5 pm Bombadil 6...
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By Michael Shank It’s been nearly a decade since Godspeed You! Black Emperor last came through town. The cult band weathered a six year hiatus that ended in 2010. Times have changed since Godspeed played the Masonic Temple back in 2003, but despite post-rock’s recent dormancy they still drew a large crowd. The apocalyptic...
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By Michael Shank There was a slight chill in the night air as Thrill Jockey and Baltimore cuddled up for a long night at the Ram’s Head this past Thursday to celebrate Thrill Jockey’s twenty years in the business (to read more about Thrill Jockey and Baltimore’s ongoing affair head here). The night started...
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Sonar, one of Baltimore’s most storied, and troubled, music venues is officially closed as of today. The Huntington Beach, CA all female electro-sleaze pop trio the Millionaire$, Guantanamo Baywatch, and others played the last ever show at Sonar on Sunday, July 8. “Talking Dan” McIntosh, the venue’s principle owner, could not be reached for...
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Height With Friends A large part of Height‘s appeal as a rapper is his fraught, heady flow, not necessarily angry or urgent but ticked enough that you know business is meant. I’d have a hard time calling Height, Dan Keech to the government, a party rapper, at least in the bubbly, sprightly AK Slaughter...
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A Wzt Hearts Incarnation Of Yore Strained under the pressures of maintaining a band long distance and many, many solo/side projects, the too-brief psych-noise quartet Wzt Hearts are disbanding, according to an e-mail sent out this afternoon by member Jason Urick. “The challenges of staying active while being physically displaced from one another eventually...
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Raspberry Campaign | Image by Al Shipley If there was ever any doubt as to the effectiveness of the Ottobar’s air conditioning and ceiling fans, their worth was amply proven on Wednesday night. When the house is packed, the room inevitably heats up until the ceiling is dripping with condensation. But at a sparsely...
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If you had a festival pass and a reasonable sense of humor, British duo Quiet Village‘s “show” on Saturday night was good comedy. For 20 minutes we waited in line to get into Metropolis’ smaller subvenue Savoy to see one of the Quiet Village’s first shows this side of the ocean. At a quarter...
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The space at 203 Davis Street is once again empty. Noise just got off the phone with Talking Head booker/manager Adam Savage, and official word is that the club is moving posthaste around the corner into Sonar’s lounge space. Details were unclear as to why, but whatever the reason, the move is sudden–Savage was...
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| Image by joshsisk.com In principle, the South by Southwest festival is as much a trade show as New York’s massive CMJ Music Marathon, which sort of made us throw up in our mouths a little last fall. The difference is that SXSW is cloaked in the best/biggest party any lover of music, Tex-Mex...
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The Metro Gallery’s tentative planned bar and stage renovations. The Metro Gallery, an arts and live music space in the Station North Arts District, plans to add a bar this spring thanks to its recently acquired liquor license. Noise sat down with Metro Gallery owner Sarah Williams earlier this week to discuss what the...
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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
How to Throw a Louisiana Style Crawfish Boil! Sizzlin’ Summer: Ordering 1. Figure out how many people you have attending. I usually do this by selling tickets for $25 each via Paypal. 2. Once you know how many people will be attending, you can figure out how many pounds of crawfish you need to order. The suggested a By Ben Claassen III 5/15/2013