> Last week, Conflicts of Interest began with an error, when I misspelled my friend Dan Pavlik’s name. The error made it through fact checking and copy editing. Then I saw it again as I…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 03:16PMThe Apocalypse comes at 6 p.m. By Georgi Gospodinov Directed by Genevieve de Mahy Through June 29 at Single Carrot Theatre Back in 2002, when the so-called “Beltway snipers” we…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 11:45AM“Slick Ass” Dan Pavlick was having a bad night. In his first round of kick the can, all four of Pavlick’s beer cans had skittered across the wooden floor of the practice space and mere…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 07:34AMThe acquisition of language is one of the great philosophical problems: It is impossible to go from not having it to having it without presupposing it. Think of the stereotypical cave man gr…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 10:36PMWith Deathfest—and the parasitical Deathscape—a couple weeks ago, the season of fests has kicked off. We usually count Transmodern the beginning of the season, but organizer Laure Drogou…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 11:18AMA couple weeks ago, we had a little disagreement with our friends down at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Or rather, I thought all of the celebrations of the certainly meritorious Fre…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMEvan Moritz of Annex Theater recalls a conversation with Ryan Haase of Stillpointe Theatre. “Ryan Haase came up to me one night and he was like, ‘Wouldn’t it be awesome if the old vaud…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMRussell De Ocampo, the owner of the Windup Space, accidentally told City Paper photographer J.M. Giordano that he could photograph Chris LaMartina, the director of Call Girl of Cthulhu, for …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMMany of the galleries and performance spaces in and around the Copycat Building took part in “Alloverstreet” last weekend. I stopped into the extraordinarily white and bright Springsteen…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMIn 2012, we gave Sun columnist and WYPR host Dan Rodricks “Best Stepping In It” for his coverage of pit bulls. We misspelled his name on the certificate we mailed him. It came back, ripp…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThis column used to be called “Art Seen,” but last week we had the headline “Conflicts of Interest” and we liked it better, so that’s the new name. And though there won’t always …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMFront Room: Sterling Ruby Through June 15 at the Baltimore Museum of Art Sterling Ruby has been anointed. Roberta Smith of The New York Times said that Ruby may be the most interesting…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMLike poetry, modern dance proceeds from an embattled position. Performers feel like they must win over a hostile, or at least indifferent, audience. By way of a program for Effervescent Coll…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMIn conjunction with the opening of Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue at the BMA, MICA hosted a multimedia screening of her film Psychopompe with live music. At first, the band, led by com…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThere was a time when the arts and sciences weren’t so divided. There was no specialization and people aspired to universal knowledge. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was probably the last p…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMJason Curtis rides a Segway through Mount Vernon with Baltimore City police officers on a Friday night. Curtis is usually chipper, a master of vibrancy. He is the head of the Mount Vernon-Be…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThe Book of Mormon Written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone At the Hippodrome Theatre through March 9 John Waters says that Hairspray is the most subversive of his works because …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMIn the talkbacks after Full Circle dance company’s performances, the first question is often the same: What comes first, the movement or the music?
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMIn the last 20 years, our understanding of space and time have been altered by new technologies; the political system and the economy are fractured and uncertain
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMLast week, occasional CP contributor Cara Ober threw Baltimore’s art world into something of a tizzy
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThe Flu Season By Will Eno Directed by Alix Fenhagen Through Feb. 15 at Single Carrot Theatre The 1999 Magnetic Fields album 69 Love Songs investigates nearly every permutation of the…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMLast week, Single Carrot Theatre hosted the grand opening of its beautiful and spacious new location at 2600 N. Howard St.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMMadeleine Keesing: Particles Through March 15 at Goya Contemporary Few artists are lucky enough to develop a late style, and those who do often find their late work unfavorably compared …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWhen the legendarily pervy cartoonist R. Crumb thinks your drawings are weird, man, they’re weird. In a short video running on a loop in the back room—which explicitly prohibits minors�…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMMomento Mori By Adam Estes Through Jan. 11 at Metro Gallery When T.S. Eliot first saw the paintings from the Lascaux caves in France, he said: “Art never really gets any better.”
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMYou could be forgiven for thinking something like a miniature movement is afoot over on West Franklin Street.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWham City has made the transition to television—or at least to infomercials. Dave Hughes, who created the program Off the Air on the Adult Swim network, noticed the loose collective of Bal…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMEgypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum The Walters Art Museum Through Jan. 5 With its glass-bottomed boats and plentiful alligators, Silver Springs was once the premier tourist destina…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMJohn Ruppert, a sculptor who uses earthly materials and forms, didn’t really know what he would be doing when he went to Iceland for a residency in Reykjavik last summer. “I just knew I …
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