Winning the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize would render any artist speechless. It's the mid-Atlantic region's most prestigious visual art honor. Just making the finalists' circle means an elite spot in the handsome Sondheim show at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which is year after year the best survey of young talent in the [...]

The mid Atlantic ain't exactly synonymous with kick-ass music festivals, but Baltimore's renegade art/music collective Wham City (most famous member: Dan Deacon) might be changing that. This Friday kicks off the fourth annual Whartscape, a three-day, weekend-long sonic smorgasbord of B-more's best and brightest bands, and their friends from the rest of the States and [...]