“Les Belles Soeurs”: A Vignette of Female Ugliness

By Anna Snyder, Staff Writer
June 8, 2013

On April 24th I went to Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production of “Les Belles Soeurs,” a Canadian play adapted for a Baltimore audience by director Richard Barber and assistant director Kate Bishop. While the acting was enthusiastic and the language engaging, I found myself hating every single... Read more »

The place beyond the pines–always spooky (Film Review) By Linda Chalmers Zemel, Staff Writer

By Linda Chalmers Zemel
May 1, 2013

Just out and worth the ticket: “The Place Beyond the Pines.” And for upstate New Yorkers, “The Place Beyond the Pines” is a must even if only for the local flavor. The story starts and ends in Schenectady, but even the famous Garbage Plate, fondly remembered by Rochester college alumni as... Read more »

Quilt-making: Not Just For Grannies (ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT) By Anna Snyder, Staff Writer

By Anna Snyder
May 1, 2013

Recently the Baltimore Heritage Quilters’ Guild hosted their annual Quilt Expo at Goucher College.  Located in the campus sports center, the event was part art exhibition, part bazaar, part auction, and part quilting bee, with members of the guild holding interactive workshops and mini-classes... Read more »

Films – Amour Is a Film to Die For

By Linda Chalmers Zemel, Staff Writer
April 13, 2013

It’s not Maggie Smith and Richard Dreyfus.  Quartet was playing at the same theater and for a moment, I hesitated at the box office.  How often do films about a certain age group and touted as excellent play at the same theater on the same weekend? But Amour stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Georges... Read more »

“We Are Tiger Dragon People”

By Anna Snyder, Staff Writer
April 12, 2013

  A Rare Look into China’s Wealth of Cultures   To understand the context of Colette Fu’s mesmerizing pop-up photojournalism, it is necessary to know her back story.  Having grown up in New Jersey and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with an MFA in Fine Art Photography,... Read more »

A Night at the Vagabond Opera

Anna Snyder, Staff Writer
March 2, 2013

A Night at the Vagabond Opera By Anna Snyder Seeing Portland Neo-cabaret folk-punk Klezmer (their style is impossible to pin down really,) band, Vagabond Opera, perform is like being transported back in time to a flashier, glitzier time and place.  This is a band with such charisma and imagination that... Read more »

“Perfect Pitch” Hits Some Decent Notes

December 12, 2012

“Perfect Pitch” Hits Some Decent Notes By Medallio Green Pitch Perfect is a film not just about the cut-throat world of a-cappella singing and harmonizing; it is so much more than that. The film captures the recycled story of loner college freshman, Beca, who inadvertently finds a group of friends... Read more »

Pat Summitt, the Legendary Coach of Tennessee’s Lady Vol’s Basketball Team Retires

Jenna Makowski
March 21, 2012

Pat Summitt’s Signature: Success and Dignity By LYNN ZINSER Published: April 19, 2012 It was at once a moment expected and inevitable and yet one with no way to prepare. As Tennessee’s women’s basketball season marched on, it became clear Pat Summitt could not sustain her role as head coach... Read more »