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(01/31/25 3:57pm)
The 2025 Oscar nominations are out, and, trust me, they did not disappoint. This year’s list of contenders is a cinematic fever dream of groundbreaking films, historic nominations and a little bit of controversy to keep things spicy. From Emilia Pérez making history, to Wicked bringing Broadway glam to the big screen and The Brutalist sparking debates about technology in film, it’s a lineup worth dissecting. So, let’s roll out the red carpet and break it all down.
(01/27/25 5:15am)
Welcome back to the Art & Entertainment’s “To watch and watch for”: a weekly column where we inform you about upcoming film, TV, book and album releases, along with artistic performances happening in Baltimore! If you’ve been trying to widen your horizons in seeking new artistic releases, then you are in the right place.
(01/03/25 6:41pm)
On Jan. 1, American rapper and record producer Lupe Fiasco announced on Instagram that he will join the Peabody Institute’s faculty as a Distinguished Visiting Professor for the new Bachelor of Music in Hip Hop program. This new initiative from Peabody, starting in fall 2025, will include the first undergraduate performing hip hop degree ever to be offered in the United States. Fiasco indicated that he will be focusing specifically on teaching rap within the program.
(12/10/24 5:40pm)
Peabody Opera Theatre (POT) and Peabody Symphony Orchestra (PSO) presented four days of sublime opera from Thursday, Nov. 21 to Sunday, Nov. 24 in the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. The groups showcased L'enfant et les sortilèges and The Classical Style: An Opera (Of Sorts) which has music by Steven Stucky and libretto by Jeremy Denk. The casts alternate every other day, while musicians performed in every show. Differing from the usual concert set up in the hall, the musicians were all in the pit underneath the stage, leaving room for the performers to perform the opera on the stage above.
(12/10/24 6:08pm)
The Booker Prize — as defined by the foundation of the same name — is “the leading literary award in the English speaking world,” and it’s awarded to “the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.” On Nov. 12 of this year, the Booker Prize was announced. It was presented to a novel lauded in a unanimous decision by the panel: a novel with “capaciousness and resonance,” one boasting “beauty and ambition.”
(12/06/24 4:19pm)
With Thanksgiving not far behind in the rearview mirror, Heretic is a movie that may feel familiar to many viewers — even if you aren’t one of two young Mormon girls spreading the Word to an older atheist man who traps you in his house, subjecting you to Saw-like games. The reason for this is because Heretic is about more than religion itself, the movie focuses on the arguments in which religion is entrenched. The point of Heretic is not to question what religion is but to question how people interact with religion — specifically, the fine line between burning bridges and finding community.
(12/06/24 5:00am)
The Johns Hopkins Taskforce on the Arts (the Taskforce on the Arts) is a group of 15 members, ranging from faculty to students with an interest in the arts. These representatives are serving to help the Taskforce on the Arts identify opportunities and improvements across the University’s various arts programs and schools. This group meets as a whole each month, with subgroups of the task force meeting more frequently to discuss specific areas such as programming, collections and facilities, and possible partnerships and collaborations across the University and in Baltimore.
(12/03/24 2:16am)
SLAM’s 16th Annual Benefit & Showcase gathered folks from Hopkins and Baltimore in Shriver Hall on the evening of Nov. 16 for a night filled with high-energy performances and stylish choreography. The event featured 12 student-led groups, from Hopkins, neighboring universities or the DMV area, and showcased each one’s passion for urban dance and free expression.
(11/23/24 7:28pm)
Is a text supposed to die?
(11/20/24 12:54am)
Rock, pop, metal, punk — and more — were on full display last week, courtesy of student bands from Hopkins and the Peabody Institute. Harnessing the power of live music to raise money, two fraternities threw a Battle of the Bands event and donated the proceeds to charity.
(11/20/24 4:41pm)
In a time when the leaders of 2010s SoundCloud trap find it hard to maintain consistency and relevance, SahBabii remains something of an outlier. While Lil Uzi Vert releases cash grab sequels and Trippie Redd sinks to KSI’s level, others have adapted for greater mainstream appeal. Post Malone — as expected — has fully embraced the highly lucrative white country audience, while Playboi Carti has cultivated an even more hyper-exclusive, fashion-forward persona.
(11/17/24 10:12pm)
The Peabody Concert Orchestra (PCO) displayed an exceptional performance on Saturday, Nov. 9 in the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. The excitement in the packed hall could be felt, especially as Dean of the Peabody Institute Fred Bronstein dedicated the opening of the annual PCO in memory of Steven Muller — former president of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital — who passed away in 2013. The program notes describes him as — “a visionary leader who reshaped and reinvigorated JHU during his long tenure as president.”
(11/19/24 5:00am)
Bryson Tiller: a name synonymous with R&B, known for his hits such as “Don’t,” “Exchange” and “Whatever She Wants.” Tiller has nearly 22 million monthly listeners on Spotify, three Grammy Award nominations, multiple Billboard Music Award wins; and for only $15, any Hopkins student could see him up close during a campus concert on Nov. 9 hosted by Student Affairs.
(11/17/24 5:00am)
Do you feel winter on its way yet? The Arts & Entertainment section is here with another list of media to make your next week a little more colorful. If you’re looking for visual entertainment, we’ve got you covered with our film picks in the “To watch” section. If you’re on the hunt for exciting new reads, look no further than the books we’ve included below. For listening material, please turn to our selection of album releases to listen to, and for live events stick around till the very end.
(11/16/24 5:00am)
If you could have everything you could ever dream of, you would probably grasp tightly onto that new reality. In Sean Baker’s Anora, a sex worker who goes by Ani becomes roped into a life of extravagance and grandeur after impulsively marrying the son of a Russian oligarch.
(11/13/24 6:03pm)
On Monday, Oct. 8, my First Year Seminar — Writing with Pictures: An Introduction to Writing Picture Books and Graphic Novels — welcomed Elizabeth Lilly as a guest speaker. Lilly is a Baltimore local — a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Towson University — and both an illustrator and writer.
(11/19/24 5:00am)
Sharp angles. Bare sides. Flat features. Only lines.
(11/11/24 6:49pm)
Hello everyone and welcome back to our “To watch and watch for” series, where the Arts & Entertainment section compiles a list of all the upcoming films, TV shows, books, albums and live events happening on campus, in the wider Baltimore area and beyond. I’m excited for this new format we started, because it means I get to share even more new releases. This week was extremely hefty in the musical department, with plenty of big names like Jon Batiste, Gwen Stefani and Mary J. Blige, and the list of live events continues to grow as we get further into the semester.
(11/10/24 9:01pm)
You loved it in the beginning, but the older it got the messier it got, and you started feeling mad more than anything else, especially when you kept finding pee on the carpet, and in the very end, it died a rapid, out-of-left-field death caused by rabies: violent and hard to watch but harder to stop watching, and once it was over you wished none of it — the dog, the death — ever happened in the first place.
(11/04/24 12:21am)
Hello and welcome! It’s time for another week of new media. Whether you’re on the lookout for inspiration, entertainment or both, the Arts & Entertainment section is here with our list of fresh recommendations. This time, we are trying out a different format in order to list more exciting media in each section. I will be summarizing a few of the releases listed below, but if you would like to learn more about any of our picks, simply click on the link we’ve attached to each title.
