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April 24, 2024

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Black female poets discuss race and sexuality

Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse hosted a poetry reading by The Black Ladies Brunch Collective for a reading of poems from their book Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy & Sexuality. This group of black female artists celebrated the importance of art, love and laughter in resisting oppression.



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The cast and director of Meyerowitz Stories attended the film’s Cannes debut.

Sandler’s new Netflix film has promise

Back in 2014, Netflix signed Adam Sandler to a four-picture deal. This meant that Netflix would finance and exclusively release four new, original films created by Sandler. Now, I don’t know about you, but when I found this out I couldn’t contain my frustration.


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Throat Culture opened its season last Saturday with asthma-based sketches.

Throat Culture hosts a comical season debut

Throat Culture, the only on-campus sketch comedy troupe at Hopkins, had its first show of the semester on Saturday, Oct. 14. Let me tell you, it had everything: inhaler jokes, back tests, vegans, inhaler jokes, witches and even more inhaler jokes.


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Amy Sherald, The light in her is easy to love. Oil on canvas, 2017.

Local painter challenges Euro-centric focus in art

In recent years, the United States has seen a resurged emphasis on identity in politics. This lends greater national attention to many provocative visual artists, particularly those who seek to subvert the tenets of an oppressive society, like the lack of representation of marginalized groups in media.






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Joshua Davis discussed various activist-entrepreneurs at Red Emma’s.

Author Joshua Davis explores ties between activism and business

Red Emma’s Bookstore hosted a talk on the history of social enterprise and fair trade in Baltimore, on Oct. 5. The event was centered around a new book titled From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs written by Joshua Clark Davis, a professor and researcher at the University of Baltimore.



COURTESY OF DAN MANSION
Mansion is a Baltimore native who has been making music for five years.

Dan Mansion: The life of a Baltimore musician

Baltimore’s disparate music scene is one of the most underappreciated great things in both the country and in the City itself. Even in an urban sprawl with eight universities, local talent is so often unexplored in favor of whatever pop sound defines each genre nationally.


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Florida-based band LANNDS played Baltimore as a part of their east coast tour.

LANNDS puts on an enchanting performance

I’m 21 years old, and I feel old as shit. Somehow, I managed to skip right over the quarter-life crisis and hopped right into the deep pool of existential dread that 40-year-old men live in fear of. That being said, premature adulthood has encouraged me not to spend my weekends in sweaty frat basements anymore.






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Gemma Simoes Decarvalho and Usman Enam starred in IQ, a featured play.

Witness Showcase highlights talent both onstage and behind the scenes

On Friday, September 29, Witness Theater’s Fall Showcase premiered in the Swirnow Theater. This year’s lineup featured the debut of five original and student-written short plays, including Kiana Beckman’s Please Form a Line Here,Anita Louie’s IQ, Vanessa Quinlivan’s Invisible, Emma Shannon’s Perfect Strangers and Michael Feder’s Neighbor.


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