Last night the 11 finalists in CP’s Shoot. Score. Baltimore short-film contest screened and the winners were announced. Watch the films and find out who won over at the SSB page.
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According to Indiewire, film distributor Cinema Guild has picked up Baltimore filmmaker Matthew Porterfield’s latest feature, Putty Hill, for distribution domestically. In addition, Cinema Guild will finally release Porterfield’s acclaimed 2006 feature debut Hamilton on DVD and video-on-demand early next year. This is great news for Porterfield and Porterfield fans in Baltimore and all...
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And The Sun has a new editor. Mary Corey, 46, a Marylander who has been at the daily for 23 years, is to take over from Monty Cook. She is the first woman to run the paper in its 173-year history.
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Bad news first: Celebrated Summer, Tony Pence’s four-year-old Towson punk, etc., record store, will be closing on June 27. The good news, especially for Baltimore City fans of Pence’s store, is that he plans to reopen inside Hampden’s Atomic Books a few days later. Atomic co-owner Benn Ray (an occasional City Paper contributor) announced the...
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As The Sun and other outlets are reporting, David Mills has died. A reporter with The Washington Post, Mills moved from journalism into television as a writer for Homicide: Life on the Streets, the series based on his college friend David Simon’s book. He went on to adapt Simon and Ed Burns’ book The...
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Putty Hill When New Yorker film writer...
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Interested in displaying your art/performance or selling your wares at this summer’s Artscape? Applications for prospective participants of all kinds, from artists to vendors, are now online. Some applications aren’t up yet, while the deadline for the prestigious (and lucrative—$25,000) Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize passed back in December, but there’s plenty of paperwork...
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Wire nerds all over the internet have been abuzz the past 24 hours or so thanks to the release of the first teaser trailer for Treme, David Simon’s new series for HBO. The series focuses on musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans, and “New Orleans” and “music” is about all you get from the very...
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If you missed Where the Wild Things Are in theaters and are looking forward to watching it on DVD in a few months, don’t count on it showing up in a Netflix envelope the week it’s released. The...
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And maybe not even Baltimore. The fine folks at The Awl (the occasional second home to the Mr. Wrong column) directed our attention to Alec MacGillis’ new piece about urban-studies professor/civic revitalization guru Richard Florida in The American...
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The still-developing story of West Baltimore activist Lenny Clay and his injury due to alleged police brutality has so far provided more questions than answers, and here’s today’s question. Justin Fenton’s follow-up in The Sun on a rally held in support of Clay refers to the following locations: According to court records and police officials,...
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Renowned writer and critic Terry Teachout has some fairly serious Maryland ties. Not only did he attend St. John’s College, but he wrote 2002’s The Skeptic: The Life of H.L. Mencken, an esteemed biography of the Sage of...
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Our fellow alt-weekly Washington City Paper just put up an online Q&A with Baltimore’s own John Waters to coincide with his (now sold out) Dec. 17 spoken-word performance at the Birchmere in suburban Virgina. Questioner Mike Riggs leads with the question du jour and asks Waters about freshly convicted Mayor Sheila Dixon. He answers,...
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Angela Bassett and Danny Glover in Gospel Hill ...
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The Maryland Film Festival has just announced that it is now officially accepting submissions for its 2010 installment, which unspools over a long weekend May 6-9. Click here for full details.
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