Arts & Culture

After a very long winter, the St. Patrick’s Parade in Annapolis spreads out from Sunday afternoon to celebrate a joyous spring-like weekend.

While participating in a Johns Hopkins Medicine study on mushroom-derived psilocybin, and the drug’s ability to curb addictive behaviors, the local writing professor discovered he loves to paint cigarettes.

Temperatures may be fluctuating, but spring is in the air with a new seasonal lineup at Neighbors Coffee. Here’s everything you should do this week in Montgomery County.

Whether you’re still digging out from snow or enjoying the first hints of spring, we’ve rounded up a mix of events for the first weekend in March.

The Baltimore Filmmakers Collective is built on the principle that anyone — LGBTQIA+ filmmakers, low-income artists, first-time screenwriters — deserves a creative home as long as they are willing to work, collaborate and grow.

The Korean American food influencer behind Nomtastic Kim, an Instagram page with over 122,000 followers, is spotlighting 100 Asian restaurants across Maryland to encourage people to patronize local, immigrant-owned eateries.

Baltimore’s complex history, moody weather and idiosyncratic residents have been inspiring writers for hundreds of years.

Oceans Calling, a three-day multigenre music festival, returns to Ocean City this fall with the likes of Dave Matthews Band, Gwen Stefani and Mumford & Sons slated to headline.

COLUMN | Like any tumultuous moment, the political right’s anti-immigrant agenda will show up in the arts. So I’ve been looking for it in local arts, places like the stages of Annapolis and the galleries of Columbia.

Aisha “Pinky” Cole, the founder of the Slutty Vegan fast-food chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, federal court records show.

Charles Albert Tindley, who wrote the lyrics to more than 50 gospel hymns, including what became the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” was molded on the country roads of Worcester County in the waning days of slavery.

Mount Vernon, once a Baltimore nightlife destination, has struggled in recent years, with losses seeming to accelerate in the past year: Eddie’s grocery store isn’t coming back anytime soon, and The Brewer’s Art recently closed.

With President Donald Trump determined to weed out arts programming he deems “woke,” major artists across media are relocating their works from the nation’s capital to its neighbor to the north.

More than 1,800 flights were canceled Sunday to airports across the Middle East, including those in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and Egypt, according to Cirium.

For more than two decades, The Maryland Zoo has functioned as a sort of Noah’s Ark for Panamanian golden frogs, which were wiped out in the wild by a fungus that raced across the globe in the early 2000s.

K2 Cafe and Kitchen, which started in Poolesville in 2021, opened a second location in January.

Between 2017 and 2023, Thomas failed to pay more than $2.5 million in employment taxes at several businesses, including Bar One Baltimore on Lancaster Street in Harbor East.

Two of Hollywood’s oldest studios may be consolidating into one. In a shocking twist after a monthslong bidding war, Paramount has emerged as the apparent victor in the fight to acquire Warner Bros.

Actor Bobby J. Brown, who appeared as Baltimore Police officers on “The Wire” and “We Own This City,” died in a barn fire in St. Mary’s County on Tuesday night, state officials said. He was 62.

Brunch Supply is a mom-and-pop run micro-bakery that serves sweet and savory pastries a few days a week and has found a fan base in an Upper Fells Point neighborhood.