• Community Metal Killing Machine Baltimore Rock Opera Society reaches epic new heights with Murdercastle | 5/8/2013
• Say you want a revolution Single Carrot investigates 126-day hostage crisis in Peru | 4/24/2013
• Seattle’s Super Sonics Kinski joins hometown contemporaries in embracing ’70s rawk | 4/10/2013
• Booed Music What’s up with avant-garde music | 4/10/2013
• Abstract Romance If Terrence Malick directed a soap opera, it just might look like this | 4/10/2013
• Backdoor Economics The American obsession with smuggling, from the Boston Tea Party through today’s drug trade | 4/3/2013
• Uncanny Valley Artist uses language of 20th century abstraction to examine current condition | 4/3/2013
• Sunny Disposition Liz Meredith and John Somers go epic on five-LP box set | 3/20/2013
• The Accidental Artist Experimental writing that aims for a broad audience | 3/20/2013
• Persian Visions Contemporary Photography from Iran | 3/20/2013
• The awkward teenage blues Stephanie Barber's new book, "Night Moves," recognizes that online commenting has become a form of literary modernism | 3/13/2013
• No Words NOVO Festival lets the music do the talking | 3/6/2013
• Booed Music What’s up with avant-garde music | 2/20/2013
• Cotton Matters Jeffrey Kent’s Preach! seeks to deliver us from the history we may have forgotten | 2/20/2013
• Awkward teenage Blues Stephanie Barber didn’t write one word in her new book, Night Moves (Publishing Genius). She didn’t even place one punctuation mark in its 70-something pages. She edited the text—if by “editing” you mean deleting the original authors’ names. | 2/13/2013
• Falling Out Filmmaker explores the strained relationship with his father in an experimental documentary | 2/6/2013
• Lost in Place Interactive show at Creative Alliance investigates our relationship to maps, space, and each other. | 2/6/2013
• Chris Toll The kind intellectual | 1/2/2013
• Booed Music What’s up with avant-garde and experimental | 1/2/2013
• Liberty and Lunacy Reissue of 85-year-old book reminds of America’s history of cultish ideas | 12/26/2012
• Dick in a Box Annex Theater brings the philosophical sci-fi of Philip K. Dick to the stage | 12/19/2012
• The Art of War Exhibition forces us to see soldiers as artists | 12/5/2012
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me The challenging prequel to TV’s Twin Peaks | 11/28/2012
• Surface Tension Two shows place experience above image | 11/28/2012
• Booed Music What’s up with avant-garde and experimental | 11/14/2012
• Red Flags Baltimore Performance Kitchen asks a lot from the audience | 10/29/2012
• Murder By Numbers Local author looks at the forgotten victims of serial killers | 10/17/2012
• Remembering Chris Toll Poet Chris Toll died on Sept. 27 at the age of 64. | 10/10/2012
• Back to the Future Open Space show mines 1970s sci-fi speculation | 9/26/2012
• Booed Music What’s up with avant-garde and experimental | 9/26/2012
• Quiet Riot Leo Svirsky melds radical ideas and refined music | 8/29/2012
• Running Free Horse Lords push Krautrock in adventurous new directions | 8/22/2012
• Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo: State of England Martin Amis takes aim at the contemporary world | 8/22/2012
• Go Tell It On Charles Street Station North Arts Café hosts James Baldwin conference | 7/25/2012
• Booed Music What’s up with avant-garde and experimental | 7/25/2012
• Red Tape Local horror filmmakers Chris LaMartina and Jimmy George bring their celebration of VHS’s idiosyncratic qualities to Artscape | 7/18/2012
• Booed Music What’s up with avant-garde and experimental | 7/18/2012
• Art of the party Terry Thompson’s paintings draw on his days as a Baltimore club DJ | 6/27/2012
• Rewiring The Classics Americana meets electronica on new releases from Blues Control and Daughn Gibson | 6/20/2012
• Gary B and the Notions How Do We Explode | 6/13/2012
• Melting Pot Christopher LaVoie occupies a new gallery with slippery rage | 6/13/2012
• The Open Road A new, queer bike collective aims to include everyone on two wheels | 6/13/2012
• Dunne Deal Phoebe Jean Dunne concocts a heartfelt album with diverse influences | 6/6/2012
• Hitting the Notes Dope Body finds the next level of its bruising sound | 5/23/2012
• Teed Off How mini golf tamed a golf-hater | 5/16/2012
• Creative Comeback D’metrius Rice’s first solo show includes work made in the aftermath of a brutal beating | 5/9/2012
• Do the Sambola Writer/director Whit Stillman returns, heads to campus, grabs Greta Gerwig, and hits the dance floor | 4/25/2012
• Damsels in Distress The movie follows the romantic and academic travails of Violet (Greta Gerwig) | 4/25/2012
• Breaking Away The Baltimore superhumans that manage to race bicycles while leading actual normal lives on the side | 4/18/2012
• Due Process Drummer Devin Gray brings process to life and finds his writing voice | 4/18/2012
• Adapting Cinderella An original production takes Cinderella to task | 3/14/2012
• Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: Make/Shift Local artist uses images of consumerism to deliver a scathing critique | 2/29/2012
• Arts Advocate Nancy Haragan Passes The arts community bids farewell to Nancy Haragan | 12/7/2011
• Weekend Like lovers do - A well wrought tête-à-tête involving two men who lead very different lives | 10/14/2011
• Page One: Inside the New York Times Over the course of Page’s 88 minutes, Carr emerges as its de facto focus | 8/3/2011
• Linus and Alora Lively play confronts the end with almost childish preciousness | 7/6/2011
• Finalist Words Sondheim show rarely disappoints | 7/6/2011
• Page One: Inside the New York Times Documentary finds America’s foremost daily paper struggling with the future—and itself | 6/29/2011
• Getting There Roots Fest 2011 turns the “Highway to Nowhere” into a local destination | 6/22/2011
• Letting loose Sitarist-vocalist Ami Dang moves from head trips to hybrid pop | 6/16/2011
• John Berndt: New Logic for Old Saxophones | 6/8/2011
• Kreuzberg: Kreuzberg it’s so infectious the machine-like steady beat that Klaus Dinger lays down and guitarist Michael Rother builds epics around. | 6/15/2011
• Denis Villeneuve The Incendies writer/director talks landing a dream project and getting more than he bargained for | 6/1/2011
• The Tree of Life Terrence Malick's personal epic dazzles and confounds | 6/8/2011
• Midnight In Paris it’s a pretty typical Allen foray into imaginative entertainment | 6/8/2011
• Cue Lasers BROS delivers a little too much rock opera for one hand night | 6/8/2011
• Speaking Parts Cast highlights a bloody relationship drama | 6/8/2011
• Nick's Rotisserie The chicken from Nick’s Rotisserie will bring out your true carnivore. | 6/8/2011
• Incendies Her entire world changes in one drawn breath. | 6/1/2011
• Ex-Replicas: Ex-Replicas Ex-Replicas Ex-Replicas Anchor Records With a jerking percussion pattern crashing into a series of guitar chord punches and both backing a snaking guitar arpeggio, Ex-Replicas’ “Camera” kicks up a melodic angularity that used to percolate through a | 6/1/2011
• Daytime: Serendipity, Co La Dial: Dial Tone Earth Daytime Serendipity Friends Co La Dial Tone Earth Friends Two tracks, 14-ish minutes apiece. The music is minimal—or even thin—ambience in one of its most pure states of softly waving, if not so much swelling, cool-sheet-pleasant sound, more | 6/1/2011
• X-Men: First Class, Up X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and UP | 6/1/2011
• American: The Bill Hicks Story When pancreatic cancer took the life of Bill Hicks in 1994, he was beloved by a core fan base and adored in the UK. | 6/1/2011
• New This Week THE HANGOVER PART 2 They’re tanned. They’re rested. They’re . . . in Bangkok? | 5/25/2011
• Queen to Play Writer/director Caroline Bottaro’s feature debut offers Sandrine Bonnaire a chance to strut her considerable acting stuff in this lighthearted but smart tale. | 5/25/2011
• The Double Hour One look at Guido lets you know he’s seen more than he wishes he has in this life already. | 5/25/2011
• A Sense Of Place Dual exhibit features variations on dislocation and repetition | 5/25/2011
• Potiche You don’t have to have carried a lifelong torch for French cinema to appreciate François Ozon, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. | 5/18/2011
• Meek’s Cutoff Manifest destiny sounds like overburdened old wooden furniture. | 5/18/2011
• Three Stories of Galicia Documentary film excavates the 20th-century troubles of an Eastern European region | 5/11/2011
• Mopar Mountain Daredevils: Mopar Bloody Mopar This hair-farming Baltimore quintet added a sticker to its 2009 debut EP to give it that extra special patina. | 5/11/2011
• Morgan Spurlock The documentary filmmaker enters the corporate world of brand management in The Greatest Movie Ever Sold | 5/11/2011
• POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Part marketing dissection, part marketing lesson. | 5/11/2011
• Baltimore: Open City Latest Exhibition Development Seminar examines Baltimore’s user experience | 5/11/2011
• Rooms Play A supposedly theater thing I’d probably do again | 5/4/2011
• Power Moves Forever Quest Dancers recreate video-game worlds in this surreal production | 5/4/2011
• Holly Hughes The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) | 4/27/2011
• Rooms Play More than 50 artists invite you to an adventure through alienation | 4/27/2011
• Show Motion Transmodern Festival focuses its many creative brains on movement in its various forms | 4/27/2011
• Quick Sketches The works of Ruth Pettus and roycrosse complement each other in Area 405’s Conventions | 4/20/2011
• Variations on Chaos Run of the Mill offers a skillfully handled look at disorder | 4/20/2011
• Curtain Time The Story of Invention, plus a limited run, a closing, a one night only, and an opening | 4/20/2011
• Jane Borden A Southerner on how New York made her realize what a Southerner she is | 4/13/2011
• Swimming in the Shallows Just your average romantic comedy about a guy and a shark meeting cute | 4/13/2011
• Weekends: Strange Cultures The thing about lo-fi pop/rock is that it’s less the low that matters than the fidelity. | 4/13/2011
• A Woman Like That If you take nothing else away from filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod’s ingenious intermingling of her own story with a portrait of a frequently overlooked woman artist, take this: Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi was pretty much a force of nature. | 4/13/2011
• Points of View Sixty-six artists, 243 photos, and the innumerable stories suggested by the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960 | 4/6/2011
• A Streetcar named Desire MICA’s young Rivals of the West company takes on Streetcar | 4/6/2011
• Felicia Carter and Amy Shook: Nothing to Do Felicia Carter and Amy Shook Nothing to Do ShookShak Productions When the contemporary female jazz vocalist norm looks/sounds like posh cosmopolitanism (the Diana Krall, Jane Moneheit, Lorraine Feather model) or stately eminence (Dee Dee Bridgewa | 4/6/2011
• Certified Copy Fact and fiction make odd bedfellows in Abbas Kiarostami’s riff on the Euro art flick | 4/6/2011

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