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Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure

2013-05-13 05:28:00

Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...

Sanford and Hicks go to Congress, The CIA goes to Hollywood and CNN stays put

2013-05-08 07:10:00

Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the House (or at least that's where we hear he's going). Welcome to your trends report for Monday, May 8, 2013. Sanford will head to Capitol Hill after facing off against Elizabeth...

NPR was, well, different early Monday morning in Baltimore

2013-05-06 14:36:00

Technical difficulties, as they euphemistically say in broadcasting, left some NPR affiliates like Baltimore's WYPR scrambling Monday morning. WYPR confirmed that it had problems with the National Public Radio feed Monday. WTMD General Manager Steve...

'House of Cards' show-runner to visit Towson University

2013-04-23 11:07:00

The folks at "House of Cards" sure love the Baltimore area. Not only is the majority of the political thriller filmed in and around the city (and, full disclosure, in The Baltimore Sun newsroom), now the show's head honcho, Beau Willimon, is slated to...

How come we don't hear about 'conservative media bias'?

2013-03-05 10:16:00

Liberal media bias. So incessant is this complaint from conservatives that the three words string together as one, like Holy Roman Empire. But like the old saw about that infamous regime being neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, liberal media bias...

Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky to give recital for Washington Performing Arts Society

2013-03-18 08:40:00

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the Russian baritone who will give a recital for the Washington Performing Arts Society at the Kennedy Center Wednesday night, has one of the finest voices of our time. He doesn’t mind saying so himself. “It is still a...

Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals

2013-02-21 00:00:00

"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through...

Kevin Spacey brings star power to 'House of Cards'

2013-02-06 04:33:00

It was a steamy weeknight in July on Centre Street, and the extras in black tie were flagging. The $100 million series "House of Cards" was prepping a crowd scene outside the Peabody Institute, across from the Midtown BBQ & Brew. For more than two hours,...

Of course Al Jazeera has a bias, but it's not what most critics think

2013-01-09 04:02:00

Reading some of the nutty coverage of Al Jazeera's purchase of Current TV from Al Gore, I am not sure whether the problem is ideology or ignorance when it comes to the sorry state of media criticism today. Last week, I explained why I thought Al...

Groundhog Day in Gaza

2012-11-24 03:00:00

In the film "Groundhog Day," Bill Murray wakes up each morning and relives the previous day. A similar scenario is playing out in the Middle East between Israel and her enemies. The deadly "movie" always goes like this: Israel is shelled or attacked...

The ripple effect of the arts

2013-02-11 08:43:00

Popular among economists, sociologists and software engineers, the phrase "ripple effect" has also been adopted by arts and cultural thought leaders to describe the powerful impact of the creative sector on our shared communities. Here at Center Stage,...

Secure the borders, but let's not lock the doors

2013-02-05 03:00:00

Since the beginning of the republic, there has been a dynamic tension between constantly expanding diversity driven by immigration and the relentless homogenizing force of common American culture. And there's nothing like a long drive on an interstate...

Season 7 of the BBC's "Doctor Who" revival saved the best for last with a gripping episode that explained the mystery of the Doctor's latest companion, Clara (a.k.a.

2013-05-19 18:14:18

"Doctor Who" companions: Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Clara Oswin Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman). (BBC)

2013-05-17 17:23:00

Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald in an episode of "Doctor Who." (BBC America)

2013-05-17 17:23:00