Natural Selection
More than anything, Steven Hargrove loved the natural world. At 13, he spent two months discovering the summertime forests, meadows and lakes of the...
Weekend Plans: What to Do 4/13-4/16
THURSDAY 13
Theater: That Face
Baltimore Center Stage's Third Space, an intimate 99-seat theater, makes its debut with "That Face," a play about a dysfunctional family...
Human Nature
Why I Don’t Write Nature Poems
Because I’m always wearing the wrong
shoes, I rarely stray from the path.
There’s recollect, there’s tranquility
and the way the trains...
Weekend Plans: What to Do 4/7-4/9
FRIDAY 7
Theater: A Ruby Cabaret
Support the Baltimore Choral Arts Society at their annual fundraiser. The evening will include performances, dinner, and silent and live...
The Beat: Meet Fishbone’s Norwood Fisher
The mid-’90s were a turbulent time for Los Angeles-based band Fishbone. In the span of a couple years, guitarist Kendall Jones — sleep-deprived and...
Growing Pains
At 24, I found myself married, pregnant and the new owner of a house in Toronto. I wallpapered, painted and salvaged old furniture. But...
Picture This
In Ruth Pettus’ painting “Coming ’Round the Mountain” (2016), an indistinct figure dashes across a trifurcated landscape. Its lack of facial features and hard...
Beauty Boys
If you’ve turned on the TV recently, you may have noticed a slight deviation in Covergirl’s standard “easy, breezy, beautiful” branding. In a recent...
Late Bloomer
The fact that Henry Morgenthau III recently published his first book of poetry, A Sunday in Purgatory, would not be particularly noteworthy except for...
A Confession Hot off the Press
I’m no Martha Stewart acolyte, praying for domestic perfection, nor do I aspire to be the next Heloise, handing out helpful household hints left...