Arts

The annual offbeat street festival, scheduled for next month, has been canceled.

With an eye toward burgeoning talent, Baltimore's three-day New/Next Film Festival will make its debut at the Charles Theatre amid the Maryland Film Festival’s hiatus.

Terri Lee Freeman, president of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, says society is at a crossroads where the accurate telling of history is of the utmost importance.

Baltimore has 20 city parks, each with their own personalities and histories. Here are some of my favorites.

Fluid Movement, the aquatic-based performing arts group, used sinkholes, the Stool Fairy, Mr. Bottle, Mr. Trash Wheel and more in their performance explaining how the water in our city works.

You could see a one-woman show by a new Annapolis theater company, play some serious pickleball at the mall, or snag one of the few remaining seats for the final performance of Melissa Ethridge’s summer concert tour. There's lots to do in the week ahead.

The 50-year career retrospective, “Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams,” will be presented in Baltimore and Seattle Art Museum in 2024.

Meyerhoff died Sunday at his Baltimore County home, according to family. He was 96.

Public and private efforts to reduce the number of abandoned and distressed houses in Baltimore need to include establishment of a Land Bank Authority, says David Plymyer, who retired as Anne Arundel County attorney in 2014 and now writes about law and government.

Charlie Vascellaro, a lifelong fan of Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, recalls that he wasn't about to let a historic blizzard keep him from making the trip from Baltimore to see "The Pee-wee Herman Show" on Broadway.

From Baltimore to Bucharest, Columbia-born Taylor Fikes is en pointe about dance, commitment and being the only Black ballerina onstage, no matter what country she's in.

The Pittsburgh-curious in me felt compelled to visit the place once famously derided as “Hell With the Lid Taken Off” and was delighted to find a robust dining scene and creative reuse of real estate.

Zachary Grant, a father who has collected Black versions of Holiday Barbie for his daughter for 30 years, says the collection offers lessons about family tradition and the importance of representation for African American girls.

There’s lots of music in Annapolis over the next week, from Los Lobos to a cabaret performance of the American songbook and marching bands at Navy stadium. Go listen to something.

Decades have passed, but Barbie has proved she’s worth her sales by dressing to the nines and changing with the times. (And of course having a highly anticipated movie doesn’t hurt.)

In the late 1960s, Watts started studying at the Peabody Institute under Leon Fleisher while maintaining a full concert schedule.

Decades ago, the subversive filmmaker interviewed and befriended Van Houten, who was granted parole this week after 53 years in prison.

Left Bank Jazz Society founding member John Fowler has held on to treasured recordings of concerts at the Famous Ballroom on Charles Street. He’s kept alive the memories of Baltimore audiences enjoying artists ranging from Duke Ellington and Count Basie to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Sun Ra.

You could watch a production of William Shakespeare’s great storm romance, or the Annapolis Blues in their final home game of the regular season. Those are just two of the best things to do in Annapolis from July 6-12.