Behind the Scenes of Be Civil Battles
Ejay McDonald promotes black liberation through monthly rap and dance event Be Civil Battles We flipped a coin; I had to go first. The lights from the ceiling disappeared along with the audience. I...
View ArticleAfro House is Disruptive Music Culture
A Baltimore Performance Company Launched from a Moravia Home In the spring of 2013, Alisha Patterson and her husband, Scott, were driving back from a cousin’s birthday party in Towson to their home in...
View ArticleAn interview with Shawna Potter of War on Women about her new book, “Making...
For the past decade or so Shawna Potter, front woman for the hardcore band War on Women, has toured the world, recording and performing songs about feminist rage. And when she’s home in Baltimore, she...
View ArticleDark City: TT The Artist to Release New Club Music Documentary
When TT The Artist brings her Baltimore club music documentary Dark City: Beneath the Beat to the Parkway Theatre June 26 and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum June 28 for first-look screenings, she’ll be...
View ArticleArtscape 2019: Photo Essay
Did you hear how hot this year’s Artscape was? I almost got hit by a couple of hand fans being waved around enthusiastically in the midst of phone conversations. A man selling bottles of cold water...
View Article‘Let Me Hang Out in My Own Self’: Amorous Ebony on Healing, Sensuality, and...
Amorous Ebony takes a deep breath and smirks as she starts to explain the inspiration for her new music video, “Lovely Mess.” The video features Ebony shrouded in blue and red lights as she sits on a...
View ArticleNo Room for Nihilism: Adam G Holofcener’s ‘Everything’s Ostensible’
Everything’s liquefying my brain. I’m trying to limit the mind-numbing time that I spend on the internet where the day-to-day galaxy-brain discourse makes it impossible for people to pull apart nuance...
View ArticleIt’s Always Showtime: 25 Artists Interpret Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense...
Last year, a group of Baltimore-based musicians and performers put on a benefit show for Moveable Feast at the 2640 Space—a live interpretation of The Band’s The Last Waltz, an iconic concert which had...
View ArticleStop Making Sense: Photos
Baltimore artists’ remount of the Talking Heads’ classic concert Stop Making Sense was like a booster shot. It rounded out a weekend stuffed with things to do, people to see, art to enjoy, the kind of...
View ArticleBecoming Marina: An Interview with Jazz-pop Songstress Ms. White
I’ll hear her first. Walking along Woodward in residential Queens, the Manhattan skyline is a silhouette in the distance. With a glance at the house number, I slip off the sleepy street, through the...
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