Former Modern Lovers frontman and career oddball troubadour Jonathan Richman brought his songs and quirky dance moves to a packed and adoring 9:30 Club on Friday with long-time drummer Tommy Larkins. "When the new feeling I always get from playing music becomes an old feeling, you'll know that will be my last tour," he said. [...]
For visual artist Juan Tejedor, real-world topography is a starting point, but not a destination. In a small but wide-ranging exhibit at Flashpoint, the Washington-based Tejedor offers intricate paintings and mixed-media works with inspirations that range from satellite images to transportation maps to the stars. In “Pangea as It Exists Today,” Tejedor pieces Africa and [...]
The National Geographic Society has some nerve. Like a grinning overachiever, Nat Geo dazzles us with gorgeous, seemingly effortlessly made photographs from far-flung locales, all but dripping with gravitas and insight. Then what does the society do? It mounts an exhibition of the outtakes from those photographic journeys—and they’re still jaw-droppingly good. The exhibit is [...]
The idea of Hemphill Fine Arts’ exhibition “Viewing Rm” is to present a cross-section of the works that pass through the gallery’s back room, ordinarily to be viewed by collectors and staff rather than members of the public who attend its single-artist, group- and thematic shows. The exhibit is variegated, but like any good combine [...]
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Bohemian Caverns, December 20
On Monday, Arena Stage moved into its new, $125 million Mead Center for American Theater, which contains three performance spaces, educational facilities, various shops and studios, and a cafe that will be run by chef Jose Andres' company. Arena invited reporters in to watch as the first of its staff began to move into the [...]
"Jazz Ruins Everything," read the sticker on bassist Devin Hoff's electric instrument, but if anything the Nels Cline Singers have gotten more jazzy, or at least less noisy, over the past couple of years. That didn't make last night's packed-house show (there may well have been more folks crammed into the Black Cat backstage than [...]
"Thanks again. We're gone."
Those are the last sounds that atmospheric metal band Isis left in their fans' ears as they exited the stage at the 9:30 Club last night. Having announced the end of the band in May, Isis are currently on a "farewell tour" with the Melvins, and while listening to Isis live is [...]
Last weekend, literally thousands of metalheads from around the world descended on Baltimore for the annual Maryland Deathfest, which just seems to keep getting bigger each year. For the 2010 version, there were two outdoor stages in addition to the main inside stage. While I was only able to make Friday of this year's three-day [...]
