Cleaning the bathroom is usually an annoying, insignificant task. Wim Wenders’ latest film, Perfect Days, takes this chore and transforms it into a vessel for gratitude. The film follows a series of days in the life of a Japanese bathroom cleaner, Hirayama, in minute detail.
Drive-Away Dolls has a bizarre plot, full of raunchy queer sex scenes and comedic criminal action sequences. In the end, it results in an entertaining, improvisational spectacle.
Susan Elizabeth Shaw discusses her role as Laurie Schwab Zabin, a past professor of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (now Bloomberg School of Public Health) in the blockbuster film, Oppenheimer. Zabin created structural changes that vastly increased access to contraceptives for adolescent and teenage girls in Baltimore.
As the midterm season finally comes upon us (and probably won’t fade out until late April), we at the Arts & Entertainment section think that now is the best time to ignore all your responsibilities and spend a night at the theater or curled up with a good book!
This terrifying and exciting transition from girlhood to womanhood, and the role of marriage as the boundary between the two, is explored in Ana Sokolović’s contemporary opera Svadba.
Contributing writer Noël Da selects specific songs produced by Baltimore artists from 1965 to 2015, covering artists like Billie Holiday, Cass Elliot, Frank Zappa and Beach House.
This week’s picks include Avatar: The Last Airbender (live-action TV series), A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal, Loss of Life by MGMT and “In The Stacks,” a live performance by Opera Baltimore at George Peabody Library.
Can you ever be too lucky? Is there such a thing as having too much luck? Before reading the novel With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer, I probably would have answered “no.” Why wouldn’t you want to wake up on the right side of the bed every morning? Why wouldn’t you want to avoid stepping in a mound of dog poop on the sidewalk or splattering tomato sauce on a white shirt? Why wouldn’t you want to always be lucky?
Critics are talking about Kanye West (Ye) irresponsibly. After multiple listening parties, the announcement of two extra volumes, release dates that came and went, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign finally released their collaboration album VULTURES 1 on Feb. 9. The critical response, at least so far, has been singularly negative.
The new romantic comedy, Upgraded, released on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 9 starring Camila Mendes and Archie Renaux, shares a familiar but well-written tale of hidden identity resolved by honest affection.
Love is in the air this week as we roll into Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re spending the evening with your partner, or just enjoying a Galentine’s Day with your best friends, be sure to check out this week’s recommendations for date night ideas.
A single light shines on a ticking clock. As the clock ticks, we are told the story of the Radium Girls, a play based on a book by Kate Moore of the same title. The play recounts the true story of a group of women in the 1920s who worked at a dial-painting company and produced watches whose numbers were painted with radium to make them glow.
There’s one thing that makes everything cooler. Space. Why have a story about pirates when you could have a story about space pirates? Why watch a play about a normal old divorce attorney when you could watch a play about an intergalactic divorce attorney? And sure, stories about people going insane are cool and interesting, but what about people going insane on a spaceship?
Maryland Art Place’s Embodiment exhibition, which is being shown from Jan. 25 to March 23, encapsulates the diverse forms of the human body through a diverse set of materials and forms, which embody both the constant changes we go through and the perception we have of others.
The Peabody Opera Theatre and Peabody Symphony Orchestra’s adaptation of Engelbert Humperdincku’s Hansel and Gretel, which was performed last Friday, Feb. 2, sets the original fairy tale in Baltimore. At times the setting feels half-baked and unfitting for the 19th-century romantic themes, but there are small moments of resonance between the fairy tale’s messaging and the current problems facing Baltimore.
Senior Staff Writer Alicia Guevara shares her opinion of the Percy Jackson and The Olympians TV series for Disney+, which released its final episode last Tuesday, Jan. 30.
Here’s the Arts & Entertainment’s selections for this week’s “To watch and watch for.” If you feel anxious about classes, take time to unwind and maybe watch, read or listen to our suggestions!
In Andrew Haigh’s newest film, All of Us Strangers, an adaption of the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada, the coexistence of the past and present is explored in a quietly heartbreaking portrait of a lonely writer who is still grieving his dead parents.
Lift, a Netflix-produced action film starring Kevin Hart, has great action sequences and pretty imagery but lacks strong, complex characters and emotional risk.
On Wednesdays, we go to the movie theater. I mean, at least I do. You should too. Regardless, the latest buzz is that the classic high school comedy Mean Girls is making its way back to the theater. No, no, not the original movie. It’s a remake. No, not just a remake of the original. It’s a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical that was a remake of the original movie that was based on a book. Got it? Yeah, me neither.
