Ever since Marvel Studios attached the post-credits scene of Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury talking to Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man at the end of Iron Man, fans have been treated to about 17 films, a few network TV shows and multiple mini-series on Netflix that have expanded the Avengers universe.
Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, performed two sets of stand-up comedy at The Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center on the night of Saturday, Nov. 4.
This past weekend, the Ottobar hosted the sixth annual U+N Fest, a two day event organized by Baltimore-based booking company, Unregistered Nurse Booking.
Blood In the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
One of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is, arguably, also one of Shakespeare’s lightest and most accessible plays.
On Friday night, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) held a special college night event following their regular weekly concert, offering Baltimore students free food, giveaways and the chance to mingle with members of the orchestra.
I did it for the fans. In a week when the biggest film being released was Jigsaw (because we need another Saw film) and when the film that I was looking forward to watching got critically panned (Suburbicon), I thought I’d have to watch Geostorm.
As you may know, Field of Screams is an annual haunted house extravaganza located in Lancaster, Pa. It has been rated the “Best Extreme Haunted Attraction” by USA Today, and its website boasts many testimonials that make it perfectly clear that Field of Screams is a terrifying place.
Lights of all shapes and colors danced across the night sky this past weekend as community members gathered together in Patterson Park for the 18th annual Great Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival.
These past few weeks have been relatively big ones for hip-hop and R&B. Some major names and underground fixtures have blessed the market with new albums and singles.
“Let me tell you a story.” Onstage, Venezuelan Artivist Daniel Arzola looked out at the crowd gathered in the Glass Pavilion.
I have pretty terrible luck. So when I was informed by the Office of Multicultural Affairs that I had won $15 tickets to see The Color Purple at the Hippodrome Theater — with a Q&A session with the cast afterwards — needless to say, I was pretty stoked at my good fortune.
As someone who would identify as far-left, anti-authoritarian and perhaps even anti-state, the FBI is, for the most part, representative of everything wrong with government.
We live in a plastic world. Many of us are surrounded by plastic wherever we go. We wake up and use plastic toothbrushes, buy food in plastic containers and shower with soap contained in plastic bottles.
It’s easy to think that there aren’t any films being produced that capture the mundane aspects of everyday American life. However that’s not entirely true; we do get these films, but they are often independent.
This week marks the final week of CHIHULY, an exhibition of artworks by well-known glass artist Dale Chihuly at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in his first garden exhibition in New York City in over a decade.
People generally have very specific and arbitrary tastes; I am one such person. I think that J. Cole makes simple, boring music, but you can find me on any given day listening to Famous Dex and Lil Xan. I say that I hate melted cheese, yet adore pizza. I enjoy funk and poppy dance music, but don’t give EDM a chance.
School of Rock is not a movie about sitting down. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a comedy about a man who teaches a group of elementary school students how to play rock and roll music while pretending to be their substitute teacher.
Professor Biddle is a Baltimore native who teaches in the Writing Seminars Department. A former reporter for The New York Times, his speciality is non-fiction writing. He teaches a variety of courses including this fall’s “Non-fiction in the Post-Factual Era.”
