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Monthly Archives: February 2012

SHOW, 3/7: Foodies, Photogs, Politicos, & Roller Skates!

By prairieskygal | February 29th, 2012

BOOM. We’re back, baby! Join Andrew Hazlett and Kevin Griffin Moreno at the Windup Space on Wednesday, March 7 from 7-9pm  for SHOW Baltimore, featuring fascinating Baltimoreans doing all kinds of kickass things. Check out this sick lineup: Kafi D’Ambrosi, Fluid Movement, Rodney Foxworth, Marta Mossburg, Julie Scharper, Tom Smith, and Black Coffee and a [...]

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In which I opine on Marco Polo and roasted Brussels sprouts

By mobtownblues | February 22nd, 2012

I’m thrilled to be included in this week’s Urbanite e-zine segment “Ask the Artist.” I do my best to answer Baynard Woods‘s questions about such weighty issues as what I’m eating and reading and so on.

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Beautiful and invincible: an analysis of Czeslaw Milosz’s ‘Incantation’

By mobtownblues | February 20th, 2012

Last week I posted my favorite poem, Czeslaw Milosz’s ‘Incantation,’ in honor of my friend Ben’s birthday. The poem has been a part of my life and thought for so long that it’s been a long time since I actually stopped and reflected on my reasons for loving it. So here’s a video of me [...]

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Video: Natalya Brusilovsky at Full Circle Storytelling #1

By mobtownblues | February 19th, 2012

Natalya Brusilovsky is an artist, an activist, a community organizer, and an all-around wonderful human being. Her compassion and the joy she feels in meeting and connecting with people shine forth in everything she does. Here she is telling her “Origins” story at Full Circle’s debut last December.

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Full Circle Presents “L’Amour Fou: Tales of Crazy Love”

By mobtownblues | February 13th, 2012
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Wizards Ball

By mobtownblues | February 11th, 2012

The Winter Festival of Wonders is going on all this weekend at Area 405 in Station North. If you didn’t make the Wizards Ball festival kickoff, here’s some of what you missed.

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Not your grandma’s aspic: lunch at the Women’s Industrial Exchange

By mobtownblues | February 10th, 2012

Tomato aspic is the polyester pants of American cooking. Once ubiquitous in American homes, especially in the South, the jiggly crimson mass of gelled vegetable matter has become a culinary punchline, an object of contempt and revulsion, a symbol of everything wrong with postwar, middle-class values, much like those madras polyester pants my dad used [...]

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Happy Birthday, Rev. Ben

By mobtownblues | February 5th, 2012

Ben Smith, a priest at my church, turns 80 today. When I first came to the Cathedral of the Incarnation in 2008, I felt an instant affinity with Ben. It wasn’t just his friendly, gracious manner or his eloquent, good-humored and heartfelt preaching style, but also his fondness for two things that have always been [...]

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Video: Brooks Long at Full Circle #1

By mobtownblues | February 1st, 2012

Full Circle Storytelling is blessed with the best one-man house band in Baltimore: soul-folk songster Brooks Long, who was just voted third in Washington Deli Magazine’s best emerging artists list. In addition to being a fantastic singer-songwriter and a dynamic performer, he’s also just a hell of a nice guy. Here he is opening Full [...]

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