http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?ColumnTitle=Arts and Minds en-us Copyright 2009 Baltimore City Paper http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19239 This past July, Las Vegas tight-pants rock quartet the Killers sold out two nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, evenings recorded for the upcoming The Killers Live from the Royal Albert Hall CD/DVD/Blu-ray, due out Nov. 10. Tonight through Nov. 11, the Senator Theatre offers a sneak peak of that c ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19227 When Will-e Robo took the stage Oct. 22 at the Baltimore Comedy Factory, he had a lot working against him. The joint was less than half full and the audience was lethargic. To warm himself up, Robo drew inspiration from the crowd in front of him. No one was safe from his blunt opinions and twisted i ... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19211 The Greenmount Avenue building that houses both Normals Books and Records and the Red Room performance space was sold at auction earlier today, but it looks like business as usual for both establishments. Details on the deal are still sketchy; Steph Campfield, the sale agent for former owner Proper ... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19207 The building at the corner of 31st Street and Greenmount Avenue (3048 Greenmount Ave.) goes up for auction at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 29. This fact wouldn't be particularly notable in this era of wholesale foreclosures except that the building houses venerable used bookstore/subcultural center Normal ... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19206 Gallery Imperato sent out an e-mail press release last Friday, Oct. 23, announcing immediate relocation plans: Gallery Imperato is in the process of relocating. We will no longer be conducting business at 921 E. Fort Ave. We look forward to announcing our new location and date for a grand re-opening ... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19171 Paul Miller—better known by his creative handle DJ Spooky—remixed the keynote lecture last night to kickoff the Maryland Institute College of Art's Transformations: New Directions in Black Art conference that runs through this weekend. And he did it with a casual brio: his nearly 90-minu ... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19168 Thank you, BET, for reminding everybody that it was on this day that 1970s crime fiction lost one of its most immediate storytellers: Detroit's Donald Goines and his common-law wife were murdered 35 years ago today. Revisit CP sister paper the Detroit Metro Times Goines remembrance that ran when the ... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19167 A Baltimore Office of Promotions and the Arts press release this morning outlined the time table for the 2010 Janet and Walter Sondheim Award. This fifth annual Sondheim prize will be the first shepherded by new Visual Arts Coordinator Jim Lucio (a former City Paper graphic designer and contributing ... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19164 A press release sent out by Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Communications Associate Dionne McConkey Oct. 12 announced that the Mayor's Cultural Town Meeting, an annual local summit where Baltimore's arts community got to speak with and to the mayor about the arts' place in the city, has ... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19161 The 40th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, commemorated on American cable television with the IFC's Monty Python Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut), expectedly earned its fair share of digital news ink (in everything from Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, The New York Times, and the Los Ange ... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19158 Erstwhile City Paper contributor Violet Glaze becomes a full-fledged writer today, and not a mere ink-stained hack like the rest of us here in alt-weekly journalism. Her debut paranormal erotic e-book, Hotel Butterfly, comes out today. Congrats. Also congrats to former CP contributing illustrator G ... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19132 We don't know if searchlights will be sweeping the sky outside the Senator Theatre this weekend as they used to when it hosted premieres, but the Belle of Govans is definitely presenting a marquee event this Saturday, Oct. 17, at 8 p.m.: the Baltimore theatrical debut of Gospel Hill, a 20th Century ... Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST