Blankets, fuzzy socks, fireplaces, those weird hand-warming packets -- they all get the job done in the winter, but on the fun scale, they’re non-starters. In search of some temperature-rising excitement, we turn to clever bartenders of Baltimore for the unique warmth that works from the inside...
The top leadership of the Miss America Organization, implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives, resigned on Saturday, with the outgoing president apologizing to a winner whose weight he ridiculed. The president,...
So at the end of Sunday’s midseason finale of “The Walking Dead,” there are lots of things we still don’t know, but there is one very big thing that we do. It comes with a spoiler alert, but if you’ve been around the water cooler where the people still following the zombie series congregate, then...
Two Baltimore authors, former Sun sports columnist John Eisenberg and Johns Hopkins University professor Lawrence P. Jackson, are on a list of those being considered for PEN America Literary Awards. Eisenberg, who spent two decades as a sports columnist for The Sun and has been a columnist at Baltimoreravens.com...
The world premiere of a musical based on Memphis-based Stax Records, one of the cornerstones of 1960s soul and rhythm & blues, will close out the 2017-18 season at Baltimore’s Center Stage, the theater announced today. Written by Matthew Benjamin and directed by outgoing Center Stage artistic director...
Less than four years after announcing its return following 15 months in limbo, The Contemporary, Baltimore’s vagabond art-museum-without-walls, is once again going on hiatus and facing an uncertain future. Although it is not closing, The Contemporary has effectively ceased operations. Its last...
When Sophia Mohen’s school band sits down to play, she’s the only middle schooler hoisting a tuba to her lips. But on Sunday she was in good company. Forty tuba, euphonium and other low brass players from the Baltimore region gathered to play a concert of Christmas carols to a nearly full house...
More than two decades after Robin Williams conquered that pesky board game, "Jumanji" has been resurrected with more and glossier stars (Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black), a comedy director and a "modern" twist. The result, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," is a very sweet, and generally...
In a more honest or at least more interesting version of “The Greatest Showman,” P.T. Barnum, famed American ringmaster and skilled exploiter of misfits and outcasts, would have been the villain rather than the hero. But where would be the fun, the uplift or the box-office potential in that? Like...
Great fun, and a reminder that unpopular political leaders mock the Resistance in other galaxies, too, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” boasts a bald-faced lie of a subtitle — sorry, folks, last Jedi, no more “Star Wars” movies! — and special guest appearances from some old, familiar faces. The oldest...
“The Shape of Water” is a sexy, violent, preposterous, beautiful fantasy, co-writer and director Guillermo del Toro’s most vivid and fully formed achievement since “Pan’s Labyrinth” 11 years ago. Set in 1962, the story del Toro fleshed out with co-writer Vanessa Taylor marries “Creature from the...