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Maryland Film Festival 2013 continues event's expansion
It used to be that the Maryland Film Festival was just a cool neighborhood event for Courtney Knipp — a bunch of obscure movies being shown just up the street from her home in Mount Vernon. Not anymore, not with thousands of film fans massing in...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Film Festivals, The New York Times, Maryland Film Festival, Station North
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'12 O'clock Boys' director is riding high
Lotfy Nathan spent some five years putting together his film about West Baltimore's dirt-bike culture. Now, with national acclaim for "12 O'clock Boys" promising to turn it into one of the year's breakout documentaries after a February premiere at the...
Tags: Movies, Arts and Culture, Mount Royal, Charles Street, Film Festivals
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'Hit & Stay' looks to Catonsville Nine and beyond
Joe Tropea thought he was writing a research paper on the Catonsville Nine, a group of Catholic anti-war activists who set draft records ablaze outside a Selective Service office in 1968. But what he was really working on was a movie script. "I just got...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Catonsville, Film Festivals, Activism, Baltimore County
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Guy Werner, Videopolis curator
Every spring, the Maryland Film Festival takes over Station North, drawing thousands to the Charles Theatre and nearby blocks. Since 2008, a smaller, more experimental video exhibit has run the same weekend inside the Metro Gallery — across the...
Tags: Charles Street, The Gatekeepers (movie), Maryland Film Festival, Station North
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Documentary about new Journey frontman at Charles on Tuesday
Talk about a great story just falling into your lap. Baltimore filmmaker Ramona Diaz can't help but chuckle while recounting how she first heard about Arnel Pineda, the unlikely successor to Steve Perry as lead singer for Journey and the subject of...
Tags: Journey (music group), Arts and Culture, Movies, Philippines, Apple iTunes
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Also from Baltimore …
A dozen films to be shown at this year's Maryland Film Festival have ties to Baltimore or Maryland — a record number, organizers say. Here are some of the highlights: "12 O'Clock Boys" Maryland Institute College of Art grad Lotfy Nathan's...Tags: Movies, Arts and Culture, Ocean City, Film Festivals, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival
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Like/Dislike with Baltimore artist Lauren Boilini
In 2006, local painter Lauren Boilini left the Midwest for graduate school in Baltimore, and she never left. She stayed to teach and become a part of the art community, and now is a painting and drawing instructor at MICA. Boilini, 29, was born in...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Silo Point, Federal Hill, Foods and Beverages, Chasing Ice (movie)
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Table Talk: Lost City Diner finally materializes
Let's just say that hydroelectric dams haven't taken as long to complete as the Lost City Diner, Joy Martin's long-awaited project in the Charles North neighborhood.
There were rumors of activity on the corner of Charles and Lafayette in early July,...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Belvedere Square, Salads, Renewable Energy, Bars and Clubs
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Kevin Clash shines in new documentary 'Being Elmo'
![When Kevin Clash was a boy in Baltimore County, he'd watch TV mere inches from the screen and wish he could walk right into "Sesame Street."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/66024024-14074126.jpg "When Kevin Clash was a boy in Baltimore County, he'd watch TV mere inches from the screen and wish he could walk right into "Sesame Street.\"")
When Kevin Clash was a boy in Baltimore County, he'd watch TV mere inches from the screen and wish he could walk right into "Sesame Street."
It didn't take him long to get there. At 15, the kid from Turners Station became the regular puppeteer on a...Tags: Movies, Kevin Clash, Entertainment, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Jim Henson
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Sofi's Crepes opens in Fells Point
The Baltimore SunA new Sofi's Crepes has opened in Fells Point. The new cafe is in the Brown's Wharf complex on Thames Street, which also houses Amuse Toys and Ten Thousand Villages. The new location, which is set back in the courtyard, facing the pier, will have a...Tags: Belvedere Square, Fells Point, Annapolis
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Md. film festivals offered advance look at Oscar nominees
For The Baltimore SunLocal film fans may have a leg up on the competition when it comes to their Oscar pools, thanks to the folks at the Maryland Film Festival and Chesapeake Film Festival. "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which enjoyed a long run at The Charles Theatre last...Tags: Movies, Arts and Culture, Easton (Talbot, Maryland), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), The Invisible War (movie)
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Lois G. Caplan, library supervisor
Lois G. Caplan, a retired library supervisor and film buff, died Dec. 25 of cancer at her Arnold home. She was 71.
A daughter of dungaree manufacturers, the former Lois Gloria Simons was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1960 from...Tags: Arts and Culture, Libraries, Women's Health, Anne Arundel Community College, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland)
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