Arts & Culture

Thursday May 16

Art Walk
Maryland Institute College of Art
5 p.m.

Thursday May 16 through May 25

The Acme Corporation presents If You Can Get to Buffalo: An Exploration of a Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Baltimore

Friday May 17

The annual wall of noise known as Maryland Death Fest is right around the corner, and we present for the discerning public radio listener, “Death Metal 101:  A Primer”

We visit with three Baltimore artists who just found themselves 25 thousand dollars richer, thanks to the annual Mary Sawyers Baker Prize:  installation sculptor Jonathan Latiano, photographer Lynne Parks, and classical cellist Dariusz Skoraczewski

Jen Michalski’s sweeping new novel, The Tide King, takes readers from 19th Century Poland through World War II Europe and, from there, across the US.  It’s a tale infused with magical realism:  Stanley Polensky and Calvin Johnson are fellow American soldiers during the war. One will end up near death.  The other will save his life by feeding him a mystical herb.

On May 2nd, the 2013 Mary Sawyers Baker Prizes were announced, and three Baltimore artists suddenly found themselves each 25 thousand dollars richer.

So, if we were to draw a Venn Diagram with ‘public radio listeners’ in one circle and ‘death metal fans’ in the other circle, we’re not quite sure what the overlap would be.  Maybe the results would surprise us.

May 10, 2013

The documentary Hit and Stay, screening tomorrow at the Maryland Film Festival, shows how the Vietnam War protest strategy of the Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine spread around the country. We'll meet the filmmakers, Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk.

May 7, 2013

Web Extra: Catholicism in the Catonsville 9

Web Extra: Shawn Peters talks about Mary Moylan

Web Extra: Where the surviving members are now

As David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” gets set to open at Fells Point Corner Theatre, we drop in at a rehearsal to meet the cast of scheming, swearing sales sharks who aim, at all costs, to “always be closing.”

Mick Kipp, AKA Mick the Pirate, was a beloved bartender, an unlikely hot sauce entrepreneur, a former stuntman, and a bona fide Baltimore personality.  He passed away this week, and we remember him with a listen back to his 2007 story from The Stoop.

When Stephen Pitcairn was murdered in Shirley Brewer’s neighborhood, she sent a poem to the young man’s grieving mother.  That gift has proven to be more meaningful than the writer ever expected.  Shirley Brewer joins The Signal’s Aaron Henkin to share from her poetry collection, After Words.

What if predicting the flu was as common as forecasting the weather? That’s the concept behind Sickweather, a Baltimore start-up that mines public data from Facebook and Twitter for key words and phrases about symptoms of sickness. The Signal’s Lisa Morgan interviews Sickweather’s Graham Dodge.