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By John Barry Starting Thursday, Baltimore Theatre Project will be hosting Plasmic Patterns, a collaboration between choreographer/dancer Naoko Maeshiba and experimental musician/composer Andy Hayleck. Maeshiba’s pieces have always skirted the lines between theatre and dance and incorporate Noh Theatre elements from her native Japan. Hayleck is a Baltimore-based sound artist and composer, who is...
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We came across the Wire-inspired website shiiiit.com today. It has a “Shiiiit Button” beside a picture of Clay Davis, the fictional and corrupt state senator on David Simon’s show. Below it is the “patented shiiiit counter.” When you push the botton with your cursor, Davis says “shiiiit.” The Wire continues to inspire.
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When he joined the Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell seemed like the new hero of Americana songwriting, besting even old heavyweights like Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood with songs like “Outfit,” which was probably one of the best songs of the decade. By the time he left the band, he seemed like his career would...
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Over the years Animal Collective, the experimental pop group with Baltimore roots, has been something of a confounding live act. They would headline gigs and play material most of the audience had never heard, songs they were still developing. With the meteoric success of 2009′s Merriweather Post Pavilion and its 2012 follow-up, Centipede Hz,...
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It’s been nearly 5 years since my City Paper profile of Mania Music Group, a promising Baltimore-based hip-hop label that was at the time headlined by three rappers: Dappa!!! Dan Midas, Kane Mayfield, and Ron G. Much has changed since then. Midas parted ways with the label, changed his rapping handle to DDm, and...
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Directed by James DeMonaco Now Playing Near-nonexistent crime, incredibly low unemployment rates, empty prisons, a flourishing economy: Set in the not-so-distant future, James DeMonaco’s The Purge envisions an ideal America—with one caveat. One night each year, all crime is completely legal. Created by the “New Founding Fathers,” this 12-hour period of mayhem (the eponymous...
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Ah, Honfest. It’s either a fun play on a classic Baltimore character or a potentially offensive caricature of working class women. Some of us hate it, some of us love it, but it would be rare to find a Baltimorean outside of Denise Whitings’ doors who thinks it makes “Charm City One of the...
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Deathfest resurrection My weekend started sundown on Wednesday with an unofficial MD Deathfest after party and birthday bash for Bmore promoter Adam Savage. Savage’s own band, Cemetery Piss, tore up the downstairs stage of the Ottobar along with Windhand, DJ Dad Weed, and Ophidian. Friends of Savage appropriately dug their little fingers into slices...
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It started with blurt of guitar squall and a burst of drums without so much as an introduction. Thus began the first-ever show of Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, a trio comprised of Animal Collective’s Dave Portner (a.k.a. Avey Tare), former Dirty Projectors singer Angel Deradoorian, and former Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman. With Hyman’s ferocious...
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Baltimore hip-hop is pretty varied, as scenes go, but the videos tend to depict the same neighborhoods in the same ways over and over. So it’s always refreshing to see something that stands out as much as The Holy Karon’s “Luci.” In just 2 minutes and 17 seconds, the creepy Desean R-directed clip gives...
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Real-Life Embarassing Sex Stories Feature: Submitted by City Paper readers 2/13/2013
Eat Pussy Like a Porn Star Charm City Porn Star: After performing in nearly 1,500 scenes with over 1,400 women and having won three AVN Awards I am more-than-qualified to speak on this matter. By Kurt Lockwood 5/29/2013
Murder Ink Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 95 By Edward Ericson Jr. 6/12/2013
You May Now Kiss the Brides Feature: Even as other battles loom, the LGBT community stops to celebrate marriage equality at Pride 2013 By Kate Drabinski 6/12/2013
The Multiple Personalities of Baltimore Fashion Feature: Fashion galleries from Towson Town Center, Harbor East, Current Space, around Mount Vernon, and the Skatepark. 6/19/2013
Good Cop, Bad Cop Mobtown Beat: Accused officer allegedly facilitated drug dealing on same days she busted people with drugs By Van Smith 6/12/2013