Plotting an Artscape Frenzy

The 2009 installment of Artscape is coming up this weekend. At America’s Largest Public Arts Festival, there’s a little something for everyone (and we mean it, everyone and your mom will be there, all sweaty and eating funnel cakes).
We can’t wait to get Going the Distance with Cake,  Say A Little Prayer (or even better, [...]

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The Art of the Party

Speaking of great Baltimore art, or Baltimore-based art in the case of Mr. Franz West’s BMA exhibit, my favorite new artist… is not responsible for the Christmas tree hued snapshot below taken at Sonar last week (that’s all me). I’m giving it up for another shutterbug visibly wowed at the Diplo show.
Local photographer Josh Sisk [...]

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Block Women for Change?

My daily email from Jon Carson is asking me to join in a Unite for Change house meeting near me, this Saturday, June 28. He linked to a video dispatch from Sr. Obama explaining that we can help them turn out independents, and even those voted for an alternate Democratic candidate in the primaries. Carson, [...]

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Justice to be Served at Sonar

Dubbed the new Daft Punk, the French duo Justice have made an undeniably infectious single called D.A.N.C.E. Peep the video–it’s fun, although the cool cats with morphing t-shirts are not actually dancing.
I am planning to see them March 2 at Sonar. It’s my birthday, so I’m allowed to go out and [...]

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