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April 18 was Record Store Day, an annual tradition intended to promote brick-and-mortar music businesses around the world. As legend had it, in 2008, a group of record store owners in a hotel basement in Fells Point first conceived the idea in a meeting. By the late 2000s, vinyl was in rough shape; the invention of smaller, cheaper and more accessible compact discs made the large, bulky record no longer viable.
The year is winding down, midterms are nearly over and that elusive handful of truly spring weather weeks in Maryland is peeking through the clouds. The allure of the sun and the Beach nearly manages to distract from the looming threat of finals, but in spite of future stress, perhaps we can pre-game our end-of-the-semester celebration a little earlier with these forthcoming selections.
After being faked out by the oncoming spring for the fourth time this year, the weather seems to finally be resting on the higher end of the thermometer and staying there. Fittingly, as the prospect of the end of the semester looms on the horizon, student-hosted events are cropping up in record numbers, and (we) the students going to them are turning out! If you’re looking for new albums to listen to on the way to your next show or for easy reads to pick up while sunbathing on the Beach, look no further: we’ve selected all sorts of media for your enjoyment! In particular, look forward to the following.
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Arts & Entertainment section of The News-Letter presents our specially curated picks of poetry from various contributing writers, staff writers and editors. Some of these are our favorite (or one of our favorites) poems; others are the most memorable poems recently occupying our minds. We hope you find a new poem (and perhaps poet) to read!
Lawrence Jackson, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the department of English and history at Hopkins, created the Donald V. Bentley Memorial lecture in memory of his good friend who lost his life to gun violence. Jackson founded the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts to “begin a regular process of sharing resources from the arts and sciences of the Homewood Campus with other portions of the city.” Each year, the center sponsors a free public lecture, and in celebration of her 200th birthday, the most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; the most prolific Black female writer of the 19th century and among the first African American women to be published in the United States.
I laughed; I swooned; I tried to disappear into my seat. Kicking off Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s year of cinema domination with a bang, Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama is a brief study of performative empathy.
Yet another spring tease. Highs of over 80 yesterday promise lows of 30 in the days coming. When can we trust the warm, lively season to come full and in earnest? Among all of this instability, we can at least take solace in new media releases, as the Arts section has been enabling readers to do every week. Whether sunshine, rain or cold, begin with these personal recommendations of new media releases.
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, Machan! / I have miles to go and promises to keep!”
On the opening night of Project Hail Mary, adapted from the Andy Weir novel of the same name, Ryan Gosling, its lead, said this about movie theaters to his packed audience: “It’s not your job to keep them open — it’s our job to make things that make it worth you coming out.” Gosling’s claims are not completely unfounded in regards to Project Hail Mary; it has surpassed box office expectations. After seeing the film, I am baffled that this is what people want.
On a Thursday night in the back practice rooms of the Bloomberg Student Center, the Hopkins Breakers were practicing past bedtime. As other students prepared to finish up studying for the night or began to tuck in for a Celsius-fueled all-nighter, I caught the Hopkins Breakers just starting a night of dancing, and I noted down their reflections on the past year, their breakdancing journey and their upcoming performance at the 2026 Culture Show.
March 27, 2026 marks the centennial birthday of the beloved American poet Frank O’Hara. Although the city most affiliated with O’Hara is New York City, with his name present in any mention of The New York School of Poets, he was born in Baltimore, thus giving us an excuse (not that it’s needed) to write about him for our Baltimore-located newspaper.
With March wrapping up and April starting, spring is steadily ahead of us. The warming weather presents the perfect opportunity for a break between grueling midterms or other obligations. What’s better than reading in the sun or walking to a show when it's 70 degrees outside? We hope you can enjoy these recommendations from the Arts Section as the new season starts!
As the season of midterms comes to an end, the season of growth begins, and spring arrives with its full force of beauty. Whether you’re going through the peak of your midterms now or already out enjoying the spring weather, hopefully you’ll be able to find some time to enjoy these picks from the Arts section!
Looking back on art, we might as well start from the beginning. We know in France, in the dark wombs of mountains, there are caves filled with ancient paintings. The largest cave system, the Chauvet Cave, dates back to 32,000 years ago, and it was discovered by three cavers in 1994. It is since closed to the public; reopening the cave would grow fungi and deteriorate the cold, damp walls across which run bison and bears and horses. We know that there are prehistoric animals there — we have photos — but to keep them alive, we cannot look at them, nor be with them.
It feels as if spring is flying by before the spring weather truly arrives. But now, with the first signs of sun, one can slow down to appreciate the pleasant weather, even if it’s not possible right now to slow down in classes (or appreciate them). To help you reach calm in at least some facets of your life, the Arts section presents our weekly picks for new media releases, beginning with my personal recommendations.
Are you an Opium-pilled truecel chud? Have you heard about Clavicular being frame-mogged by an ASU frat leader? If even some of this makes sense to you, you might sit nicely at the intersection of Gen Z brainrot and the underground rap scene.
The Los Angeles heist thriller is scarcely an original premise, but Bart Layton and his star-studded cast fully lean into the intrigue in this adaptation of Don Winslow’s short story of the same name.
The Nasser brothers’ feature film Gaza mon amour, in its manageable one-and-a-half hour runtime, lumps subtle commentary on contemporary life in Gaza in the same package as well-timed satirical humor that has many viewers laughing out loud. The film made $58,090 in the international box office and served as Palestine’s representative for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars in 2022.
It comes as no surprise that Emerald Fennell, the daughter of a wealthy jewelry baron, gravitates toward stories drenched in excess. While she certainly brings copious amounts of style with her shocking and provocative films, a common critique of her works is in their lack of substance. Her films A Promising Young Woman (2020) and Saltburn (2023) allude to commentaries on the #MeToo movement as well as wealth and class struggles, respectively, that never actually present themselves, and her latest venture, “Wuthering Heights” (2026), completes this trifecta of disappointing discourse bait — films designed less to mean something than to make everyone argue about what they think they meant.
Whether or not you had an eventful or ordinary month, the last week of February is an uplifting time with the promise of March and warmer weather ahead. Before spring can get started, you may be struggling to push through the last bits of remaining snow or chilly wind. If that’s the case, we have some media recommendations to help you persevere through this midway point of the semester.