‘I Love Boosters’ is the collective action movie we need right now

Achieving financial success at the box office and producing a film that feels vital and alive are often mutually exclusive aims. “Good” movies bomb all the time and “bad” ones make billions. But in...

Roy Crosse was epically inspired by his connection to creative communities in Baltimore

I’m standing in the foyer of the home of artist Roy Crosse (alias roycrosse) and his wife, Anelda Peters, 12 years after his passing. Big windows beam light in every direction. I’m surrounded by...

In Baltimore, every brick has a story to tell. The Peale Museum wants to be where they’re told.

When I stepped into The Peale this May for the Charm City Fringe Festival, I entered a building that, for many years, I had only seen out of the corner of my eye when I walked down Holliday Street....

If fear is a question, courage is Stephen Towns’ answer

I am taken aback by the meditative quiet in the daytime at the Compound, the warehouse art center known for its nightlife. Crossing through a sun-dappled garden, the shared kitchen, and a rather...

Music education can make a difference for young people, if Baltimore City schools invest in it

The Lyric, a historic music venue in Mount Vernon, has hosted the likes of Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, and Prince in its 132 years of existence.  Last November, that stage was the domain of Baltimore...

Bry Reed: Learning about the ghosts and grief of the queer neighbors Baltimore lost during the...

Baltimore’s queer history is a tale interwoven with stories of the city’s shifts pre and postindustrialization. At the height of factory and port work in the 1930s and 1940s, Baltimore’s population...

Almost a year after the police killing of Pytorcarcha Brooks, her family still hasn't seen change...

Her family called her Baby Sis. A quiet, gentle woman, Pytorcarcha Brooks couldn’t have weighed more than 100 pounds soaking wet. On June 25, 2025, the 70-year-old was deep in a mental health crisis...

Black Crossword: June 10, 2026

‘It’s Baltimore to the World’: BREAK A LEG keeps the gritty nature of Baltimore Club music alive,...

In the mid-2000s, Club music was gaining the kind of nationwide notoriety that we had never seen before. MTV’s “You Hear It First,” hosted by Sway, featured K-Swift in a 2006 segment where cameras...

Listen first, talk later: The Evening Ritual encourages collective, active listening to music 

On Sundays, I am typically indifferent about how I begin my week. Sometimes it’s as simple as doing a face mask and other types of at-home pampering. Sometimes it’s a hike. Sometimes it’s nothing at...

June 2026 Tarotscopes

Air Signs — Aquarius, Gemini, Libra Ten of Cups Queen of Pentacles King of Wands  Things may not be perfect, air signs, but they’re a lot better than they have been in recent months. You’re...

‘I’m going to be living in your brain’: The legacy of Miss Tony in Baltimore

At its roots, queerness has always been present in Black art and music. From the beginning, the blues had Ma Rainey, rock ’n’ roll had Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and disco had Sylvester. Nightclubs and...

If fear is a question, courage is Stephen Towns’ answer

I am taken aback by the meditative quiet in the daytime at the Compound, the warehouse art center known for its nightlife. Crossing through a sun-dappled garden, the shared kitchen, and a rather...

Almost a year after the police killing of Pytorcarcha Brooks, her family still hasn't seen change...

Her family called her Baby Sis. A quiet, gentle woman, Pytorcarcha Brooks couldn’t have weighed more than 100 pounds soaking wet. On June 25, 2025, the 70-year-old was deep in a mental health crisis...

Bry Reed: Learning about the ghosts and grief of the queer neighbors Baltimore lost during the...

Baltimore’s queer history is a tale interwoven with stories of the city’s shifts pre and postindustrialization. At the height of factory and port work in the 1930s and 1940s, Baltimore’s population...

Black Crossword: June 10, 2026

What’s Poppin’ Issue #083

“Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray,” Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles Street, June 6 and 7. newwavesingers.org In 2012, the Episcopal Church made Rev. Pauli Murray a saint, and whatever...

If fear is a question, courage is Stephen Towns’ answer

I am taken aback by the meditative quiet in the daytime at the Compound, the warehouse art center known for its nightlife. Crossing through a sun-dappled garden, the shared kitchen, and a rather...

Bry Reed: Learning about the ghosts and grief of the queer neighbors Baltimore lost during the...

Baltimore’s queer history is a tale interwoven with stories of the city’s shifts pre and postindustrialization. At the height of factory and port work in the 1930s and 1940s, Baltimore’s population...

As Baltimore’s Pride festival grows, residents and city officials grapple with who gets to manage it

Father Al Risdorfer does not hesitate to remind me that Pride has always been an act of communal protest against the reality of anti-LGBTQ violence and erasure.  “The origins of Pride was a protest...