Articles by Bret McCabe

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Minute Waltz: Local novelist Michael Kimball pieces together a new kind of film narrative in 60 Writers/60 Places

Film | 2/3/2010 | By Bret McCabe

"I almost lost my mind in the process of putting this together," Michael Kimball confesses with a laugh about 60 Writers/60 Places, his latest film project, which he created in collaboration with New...[MORE]

Theresa Bickham: The Towson University voice teacher and soprano talks about little-performed 20th-century voice works

Music | 2/3/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Perhaps you grew up listening to classical music. This set of ears didn't. In fact, it wasn't until those ears entered the back door of classical composition through 20th-century composers such as Jo...[MORE]

Matthew Porterfield: The local filmmaker talks about his latest project, and it's not the one everyone expected

Film | 1/27/2010 | By Bret McCabe

The second feature by local filmmaker Matthew Porterfield is almost finished--though not the one you may have heard about. Although his debut feature, 2006's Hamilton, continued to screen through las...[MORE]

Spike Lee, MLK Convocation, Loyola University, Jan. 20

Arts and Minds | 1/26/2010 | By Bret McCabe

"Last year at this time I was attending a lot of balls," Spike Lee wryly offered when he first took the low-rise stage on the campus of Loyola University. It was a casual yet smart way to set the tone...[MORE]

A Celebration of Flo McGarrell's Life: Tonight, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. at the Middendorf Gallery in MICA's Station Building

Arts and Minds | 1/20/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Last week Flo McGarrell—MICA grad, multidisciplinary artist, and son to James and Ann McGarrell of Newbury, Vt.—passed away Jan. 12 during the earthquake that devastated Haiti. At the time...[MORE]

Whispers for Wolves, J. Graf, Weyes Bluhd, Owen Gardner, Salamander Wool at Hexagon Jan. 20

Noise | 1/19/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Here at Baltimore's Most Continuing-2009's-Furlough-Days-in-the-Twenty-Ten Alternative Weekly, production weeks abridged due to holidays or furlough days or furloughed holidays, such as Martin Luther ...[MORE]

Death Spoof: The EMP Collective debuts with We're All Gonna to Die

Stage | 1/20/2010 | By Bret McCabe

A solitary man drags a cart into the center of the room. He looks haggard, at his wit's end. A patch covers one eye. And just as he turns a cursing fist to the sky, a woman approaches. She looks a...[MORE]

Know Logo?: Hexagon Yer Jock Logo Contest

Arts and Minds | 1/13/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Baltimore's artist-run collective multipurpose space the Hexagon is seeking a new logo, and is sponsoring a design contest to come up with a visual brand for the space and its community. The deadline ...[MORE]

Vanishing Axe: Scars literal and figurative afflict the characters in this sweet musical

Stage | 1/13/2010 | By Bret McCabe

With only two productions to its credit, the new local company Teatro 101 is already proving itself an emerging player in Baltimore's up-and-coming young theater community. Back in July, the company...[MORE]

Quick Sketches: Jan. 7-9

Arts and Minds | 1/7/2010 | By Bret McCabe

COOL TEXTS Maryland Art Place's Instant Messages ends its run Jan. 9, and if you haven't checked out this show—featuring MFA students from MICA's Graphic Design program directed by Ellen Lupton&...[MORE]

RIP the Lof/t?

Arts and Minds | 1/6/2010 | By Bret McCabe

By the end of January 2010, the Lof/t—the mixed-use performance and gallery space located on the first floor of the Load of Fun Studios on West North Avenue—will no longer exist. At least,...[MORE]

Breathless: Catching up with Wham City pop songwriter Lizz King

Music | 1/6/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Lizz King has places to be and things to do. You can tell by the way this string-bean hurricane shoves into a room like a gust of wind through a cracked door. She carries two bags and rifles through ...[MORE]

Furnished Room: Two new School 33 shows reconfigure home décor and reimagine the world from above

Art | 1/6/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Something strange is definitely afoot in Shannon Donovan's wall-mounted porcelain and earthenware works at School 33. Her three "Hubcap Portraits" and the wall-covering "Exuberance Is Better Than Tas...[MORE]

A Different Drummer: Rashied Ali

Feature | 12/30/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Backing up a legend is a sure-fire road to obscurity. Hard-core football fans may recognize the names Gary Cuozzo, Earl Morrall, George Shaw, and Tommy Tuckerton, but nearly everybody has heard of J...[MORE]

Parboiled: Donald Westlake

Feature | 12/30/2009 | By Bret McCabe

The truth is, most writers would gladly settle for one great book. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'd be great to have a long and prosperous career, cranking out celebrated genre works that get adapted into movi...[MORE]

Biggie Shorty: Don't worry about the obtuse organizational idea--the works work

Art | 12/30/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Local artist Jen Kirby is a master of the epic ephemeral. Her string installations, as seen at the Whole Gallery's Off the Wall last April and the University of Maryland at College Park Stamp Gallery...[MORE]

Is This It?: City Paper looks back at the past decade

Feature | 12/23/2009 | By Bret McCabe

The Y2K scare, the dot-com bust. Sept.11, weapons of mass destruction, mission accomplished. Hurricane Katrina, evacuation, "looting," George Bush doesn't care about black people. A president admitted...[MORE]

Thanks For the Memories: 2007: I had a borderline awful time in Bucharest—and I kind of miss it

Feature | 12/23/2009 | By Bret McCabe

BY THE TIME WE reached the flea market, I had to confess that everything wasn't going as planned. In Bucharest, Romania, a flea market crops up every Sunday morning along the banks of the mighty Dambo...[MORE]

Beyond the Front: Baltimore writer Justin Sirois collaborates with Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy to tell a different story from Iraq

Feature | 12/16/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Blunt facts can only tell part of any story. Fact: Fallujah is a modest-sized city located in central Iraq on the banks of the Euphrates River, roughly 69 kilometers west of Baghdad. In 2003, its pop...[MORE]

The Year in DVDs

Top Ten | 12/9/2009 | By Lee Gardner, Bret McCabe

1) Deadly Sweet (Cult Epics) Italian writer/director Tinto Brass' loose 1967 adaptation of a Sergio Donati novel almost plays out as an irreverent send-up of Michaelangelo Antonioni's late ’60s out...[MORE]

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James Hyde

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 1/27/2010

James Hyde's most recent body of work explores what happens when the imagery of photography and the methods of painting coexist, continuing his ongoing exploration of the creative acts of painting. Hi...[MORE]

Contra

Record review: by Bret McCabe | 1/20/2010

Knocking a band for its pedigree is kinda pointless. Witness Vampire Weekend, the New York quartet whose African rhythms-inspired pop on its 2008 self-titled debut was hailed with equal ecstatic fanfa...[MORE]

Black Dynamite

Movie review: by Bret McCabe | 1/20/2010

Everything about Black Dynamite adores its 1970s-era inspiration, and nothing is played for a cheap, condescending joke. You know the moustaches are manly because they're thicker than shag carpeting....[MORE]

The Natural Brothers Deli and Café

Restaurant review: by Bret McCabe | 1/13/2010

This natural/health foods and goods store, located in the strip mall across the street from the Timonium Fairgrounds where a big-box Giant recently opened, has always occupied a special place in the ...[MORE]

Crazy Heart

Movie review: by Bret McCabe | 1/13/2010

"That's the thing about the good ones," singer/songwriter "Bad" Blake (Jeff Bridges) tells Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal) about a song he just wrote. "You've heard them all before." That's the magic actor-t...[MORE]

Ana Vidovic

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 1/13/2010

Just as Serb Ana Ivanovic might be bringing new fans to women's tennis by being, well, rather photogenic on top of having a killer forehand, here's hoping Croatian musician Ana Vidovic might bring som...[MORE]

Possum Trot

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 1/13/2010

Calvin Black was born in Tennessee in 1903, but he and his wife Ruby spent the better part of their lives as self-taught artists living in Yermo, Calif., a hamlet east of Barstow in the Mojave Desert....[MORE]

Welcome Home: The Jay Randall Story

Movie review: by Bret McCabe | 1/6/2010

Hollywood clichés get their comeuppance in this down and dirty feature quickie from JPNT Films, the local production outfit of producers/writers/directors/actors Jimmy Traynor and Peechee Neric....[MORE]

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus

Movie review: by Bret McCabe | 1/6/2010

The gravelly voiced Tom Waits playing a bowler-topped devil figure is such a no brainer that it's a wonder nobody ever thought of it before, but director/co-writer Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of D...[MORE]

Broken Embraces

Movie review: by Bret McCabe | 1/6/2010

The biggest complaint leveled against the ongoing mature period of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is that he has too comfortably settled into crafting sudsy women's melodramas. For the most pa...[MORE]

Kwanzaa Celebration

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 12/23/2009

Sunday 27 Christmas is over--the presents, opened; your belly, overstuffed; midnight mass, well, maybe you got dragged to one. And if you need a tonic following the crass marketing of Jesus' birthday...[MORE]

It's a Jazzy-Soulful Christmas, Charlie Brown!

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 12/23/2009

Wednesday 23 Best Christmas album ever? No contest, 1963's A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector, if only because the Crystals, the Ronettes, and Darlene Love should sing every Christmas song, e...[MORE]

Til the Casket Drops

Record review: by Bret McCabe | 12/16/2009

Hustling may be a recession-proof business--see: Rick Ross' "Rich Off Cocaine," Birdman's "Money to Blow," Pill's "Trap Goin' Ham"--but hip-hop hopelessly devoted to rags-to-cocaine riches stories in ...[MORE]

Up in the Air

Movie review: by Bret McCabe | 12/16/2009

Jason Reitman has one of the more casually confident senses of tone of any young mainstream director working right now. In but three features, he's managed to view seemingly thorny subjects--includin...[MORE]

The Lift

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 12/16/2009

Local artist Brady Starr considers himself a "concept artist"--says so right there on his web site. And his latest project, also according to his web site, is a so-called documentary called The Lift w...[MORE]

Yukata Makino

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 12/16/2009

Cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen recently returned to Baltimore from a European tour, and tonight she brings some international talent back home. Chen plays in a trio of electronics composer/improviser Je...[MORE]

Nina's Espresso Bar

Restaurant review: by Bret McCabe | 12/9/2009

We like the usual coffee-shop menu as much as the next migrant midtown luncher, but sometimes you wouldn't mind not choosing a sandwich to go with that midday latte. That's where Nina's Espresso Bar ...[MORE]

Baltimore Afrobeat Society

Event Preview review: by Bret McCabe | 12/9/2009

After a 14-month absence, Charm City's big-band nothing-but-fun delivery system is back--and for its kinda/sorta semi-annual(ish) show, it's gonna take over your Friday and Saturday nights. The Baltim...[MORE]

Riot Acts

Movie review: by Bret McCabe | 12/2/2009

Riot Acts is one of those few documentaries that succeeds because of what it chooses not to tell you. This solid 2009 flick comes right out and identifies its focus in the subtitle, Flaunting Gender...[MORE]

Bread Alone

Book review: by Bret McCabe | 12/2/2009

Protest poetry, like protest itself, becomes shrill in high doses. No matter how arresting the work of a Daniel Berrigan, Ana Castillo, or Mongane Wally Serote, when reading an entire collection, the...[MORE]