94 stories by "Baynard Woods"
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Last week, Conflicts of Interest began with an error, when I misspelled my friend Dan Pavlik's name. The error made it through fact checking and copy editing. Then I saw it again as I p…
The Apocalypse comes at 6 p.m.
By Georgi Gospodinov
Directed by Genevieve de Mahy
Through June 29 at Single Carrot Theatre
Back in 2002, when the so-called "Beltway snipers" were t…
"Slick Ass" Dan Pavlick was having a bad night. In his first round of kick the can, all four of Pavlick's beer cans had skittered across the wooden floor of the practice space and merely bou…
The acquisition of language is one of the great philosophical problems: It is impossible to go from not having it to having it without presupposing it. Think of the stereotypical cave man gr…
With Deathfest"and the parasitical Deathscape"a couple weeks ago, the season of fests has kicked off. We usually count Transmodern the beginning of the season, but organizer Laure Drogoul te…
A couple weeks ago, we had a little disagreement with our friends down at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Or rather, I thought all of the celebrations of the certainly meritorious Fre…
Evan Moritz of Annex Theater recalls a conversation with Ryan Haase of Stillpointe Theatre. "Ryan Haase came up to me one night and he was like, 'Wouldn't it be awesome if the old vaudeville…
Russell De Ocampo, the owner of the Windup Space, accidentally told City Paper photographer J.M. Giordano that he could photograph Chris LaMartina, the director of Call Girl of Cthulhu, for …
Many of the galleries and performance spaces in and around the Copycat Building took part in "Alloverstreet" last weekend. I stopped into the extraordinarily white and bright Springsteen Gal…
In 2012, we gave Sun columnist and WYPR host Dan Rodricks "Best Stepping In It" for his coverage of pit bulls. We misspelled his name on the certificate we mailed him. It came back, ripped i…
This column used to be called "Art Seen," but last week we had the headline "Conflicts of Interest" and we liked it better, so that's the new name. And though there won't always be conflicts…
Front Room: Sterling Ruby
Through June 15 at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Sterling Ruby has been anointed. Roberta Smith of The New York Times said that Ruby may be the most interesting…
Like poetry, modern dance proceeds from an embattled position. Performers feel like they must win over a hostile, or at least indifferent, audience. By way of a program for Effervescent Coll…
In conjunction with the opening of Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue at the BMA, MICA hosted a multimedia screening of her film Psychopompe with live music.
At first, the band, led by compo…
There was a time when the arts and sciences weren't so divided. There was no specialization and people aspired to universal knowledge. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was probably the last per…
Jason Curtis rides a Segway through Mount Vernon with Baltimore City police officers on a Friday night. Curtis is usually chipper, a master of vibrancy. He is the head of the Mount Vernon-Be…
The Book of Mormon
Written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
At the Hippodrome Theatre through March 9
John Waters says that
Hairspray
is the most subversive of his works because …
In the talkbacks after Full Circle dance company's performances, the first question is often the same: What comes first, the movement or the music?
In the last 20 years, our understanding of space and time have been altered by new technologies; the political system and the economy are fractured and uncertain
Last week, occasional CP contributor Cara Ober threw Baltimore's art world into something of a tizzy
All too often, opera is still seen as stuffy.
The Flu Season
By Will Eno
Directed by Alix Fenhagen
Through Feb. 15 at Single Carrot Theatre
The 1999 Magnetic Fields album 69 Love Songs investigates nearly every permutation of the…
Last week, Single Carrot Theatre hosted the grand opening of its beautiful and spacious new location at 2600 N. Howard St.
Madeleine Keesing: Particles
Through March 15 at Goya Contemporary
Few artists are lucky enough to develop a late style, and those who do often find their late work unfavorably compared …
