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After a long career as a visual artist, Baltimore painter Jean-Pierre Weill has written his first book. It’s a children’s book – for adults – and it’s an elegantly simple crystallization of our grownup search for happiness through a maze of do
This holiday season, local artists might want to add to their holiday wish-lists a “Ruby.” Over the next year, The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance will be awarding a hundred and twenty thousand dollars in Rubys Grants to qualified applican
Madison Smartt Bell is best known as a novelist, but he has always written short fiction as well. Releasing a collection of seemingly unrelated short stories is no easy feat in the evolving world of publishing, but Bell has found a rather uniqu
This past Thursday night, festive crowds gathered on the cobblestones at Mount Vernon Place to celebrate the annual lighting of Baltimore’s Washington Monument. The statue of George Washington looked regal as ever, perched atop his marble colu
December 6th through the 8th, Baltimore’s Theatre Project will host a visiting production that asks us to re-evaluate our stereotypes about Muslim women. Unveiled is a one-woman play, written by (and starring) Rohina Malik. The playwright and
Celebrated Baltimore novelist Sujata Massey recently took the spotlight at a Stoop Storytelling event titled, “It’s a Mystery: Stories about the unanswered questions that haunt our city, our families, and ourselves.” Massey loves to write a g
Have you ever taken a drawing class, the kind where you draw a live model? Most of those models just do the work on the side, here and there, to make a few extra bucks. But there are some lucky ones who have agents, managers who treat them li
Singer/songwriter Kristen Toedtman currently splits her time between Baltimore and Los Angeles. Out on the West Coast, she keeps busy as a session singer and a choir leader. But she frequently heads back East to perform with the local super-g
Heather Rounds’ novel, There, follows a young American journalist working in the northern Kurdish zone of Iraq as the region slowly regains its footing after years of war and upheaval. Not structured like a traditional novel, "There" is more a
After a long career as a naval architect, Wilbert McKinley, Jr., is starting over. This time, he’s building an entire fleet by himself – out of Legos. Commodore McKinley’s educational Teach Fleet is the story of a man who finally discovers wh
The banjo has been on a long, strange musical trip since its first appearance in America. The instrument was first fashioned by enslaved Africans during Colonial times, a musical descendent of their native kora. From there, the banjo rang out
The New Black is a powerful documentary that explores the complex issue of gay rights within the African American community. From church pews and conference rooms to street corners and kitchen tables, the film reveals the evolution of this di
A trip to the pharmacy is, let’s be honest, kind of a drag. You wait in line. You give your name. You watch them rifle through the bags. If you’re lucky, they have your prescription ready. You pay, and you’re done. On a good day, you might
The Tuvan throat-singing ensemble Alash is currently touring the US and on its way to Baltimore for a concert at Towson University’s Stephens Hall Theatre. Aaron Henkin talks with the band’s interpreter, Sean Quirk, about the human voice’s abi
Signal contributor Jeff Trueman recently had a surprising and rewarding experience sharing his love of classical music with a couple of wide-eyed, adolescent kids at a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert. The event inspired him to reach out to
Many of us have heard of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but did you know that Baltimore has a fringe festival, too? Charm City Fringe is a new theater festival that aims to highlight and expand the thriving “fringe” arts community in Baltimore
“It’s what you didn’t learn in high school history.” That’s how Bernard Kinsey describes the world-class collection that he and his wife, Shirley Kinsey, have amassed over the years. The Kinsey Collection is a world-class showcase of African A
Back in 2004, on Halloween, we invited a talented local performer to join us for a special reading of Poe’s most famous poem. Every Halloween since, we’ve made a tradition of unleashing this diabolical archival recording, and this week we’re h
www.stoopstorytelling.com)" width="189" height="300" style="float: right;">Here’s a story from the “Haunted” Stoop event about a Baltimore police officer’s first official night on the job. Officer Edward Doyle-Gillespie stepped to the micropho
www.stoopstorytelling.com)" width="263" height="300" style="float: right;">Kate Pratt is a transplant coordinator and a certified eye bank technician. She shared this recollection in front of a live audience at a Stoop event titled, “Haunted:
www.stoopstorytelling.com)" width="283" height="300" style="float: right;">The Stoop’s “Twilight Zone” storytelling event brought a seasoned raconteur to the microphone, a retired US Army medic who served stateside as a psychiatric tech in a nu
We begin this week’s special Halloween edition of The Signal with a story from Jeff Alphin. Jeff told this anecdote in front of a live audience at a Stoop Storytelling event titled, “The Twilight Zone: True Tales of the Bizarre and Unexpected
Moira Egan is an award-winning poet, a longtime Signal contributor, and an accomplished literary translator. She’s also 50 years old and increasingly fussy about the thermostat. Her poetry collection, Hot Flash Sonnets, gives a lyrically grac
Ptolemy Slocum takes the stage at The Windup Space to share a story about the trouble with good intentions, at the Stoop Storytelling event, “Dating Tales: Stories of Meeting Cute, Failed Fix-ups, and Other Romantic Misadventures.”
The ancient Greeks prayed to the muses for creative inspiration. (They also practiced alchemy and believed the human body was made of four humors.) And while our understanding of science has become more refined over the millennia, the source
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