Arts

Jerry B. Whiddon was the artistic director of Bethesda’s Round House Theatre for 20 years. He died on Oct. 17 at age 77.

The Top of the World observation deck at the Baltimore World Trade Center will continue to be run by Create Baltimore, the group’s CEO announced Monday.

By chance, a little college in Towson has come to hold the largest Jane Austen collection in the world outside of England.

It started with just a few Halloween animatronics, but now the Catalina Haunt has become a destination for neighborhood residents and Halloween fanatics across the county.

Suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum.

This is the sixth year that the Downtown Partnership has worked with other groups to bring gigantic pumpkins to downtown Annapolis, where they are carved by local artists.

Philanthropists Amy and Marc Meadows will donate more than $10 million to the Baltimore Museum of Art for arts education initiatives.

Forma Festival at The Garage in Boyds will showcase techno, dance music and visual arts.

Lani Moore’s horror dolls wouldn’t play well with Barbie.

Hark, the sounds of deranged laughter are beckoning you toward such ghoulish fun. Here’s what’s happening around Howard County from Oct. 23 through Oct. 26.

The better Navy football is, the harder it can be to get good tickets.

Hank Azaria and the EZ Street Band perform Friday at Rockville’s Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center and Saturday at Ocean City’s Sunfest.

Dog and kid costume contests, a macaroni and cheese cook-off and more things to do in Montgomery County this week.

The Kensington brewery, less than three years old, hadn’t planned to expand this soon. A second location in Bethesda is scheduled to open Oct. 31.

The planned closure of Shoppers in Germantown will diminish your chances to get one of the region’s finest doughnuts.

“One Maryland One Book” has been running for 18 years. This year’s pick, “Kin: Rooted in Hope,” is available through Montgomery County Public Library branches.

New basketball Hall of Fame inductee Carmelo Anthony talks to The Banner about his career-spanning exhibit at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, misunderstandings about his career and more.

Baltimore’s C. Grimaldis Gallery, which has hosted exhibits by Alice Neel, Willem de Kooning and other major artists, will close at the end of 2025.

Feis Culkin and the Maryland Fall Championship in Irish dance will be held on Oct. 11 and 12 at the Hilton Washington D.C./Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center.

Edgar Allan Poe would have loathed and loved what Baltimore has done with him. “I have great faith in fools,” he wrote. “My friends call it self-confidence.”