Dar Williams & Friend Together in Song at the Avalon by Steve Parks
“I won’t forget when Peter Pan came to my house, took my hand I said I was a boy I’m glad he didn’t check I learned to fly, I learned to fight I lived a whole life in one night.” –“When I Was a Boy,” Dar Williams She was born Dorothy Snowden Williams. One of her big sisters, Julie or Meredith, first mispronounced her name. Dar instead of Dorothy. And it stuck. For life. It’s just as well. ... [Continue Story]
Arts Highlights
Giving Up on Giving In: Christina Vane at the Stoltz by Mark Pelavin
Over the course of her terrific show at the Stoltz Listening Room, Christina Vane described herself as being “from everywhere” and “from nowhere.” ... [Continue Story]
- Engaging Street Mural to Enhance Safety Measures on Love Point Road in Stevensville
- Spy Concert Review: MSO’s All-American Season Finale by Steve Parks
- Darlene Taylor at the AAM: Reclaiming Untold Stories Through Heirloom Memories
- Spy Art Reviews: From Heirlooms to Master Antiquity Prints by Steve Parks
- Spy Review: They’re All Winners in this Contest by Steve Parks
- TAP Time: Tred Avon Players Liz Clarke and Cavin Moore on “Vanities”
- Two Art Grants Programs that Might Change Lives with Talbot Arts’ Joan Levy
- Spy Music Review: Concerto to Die For by Steve Parks
- Spy Arts Diary: A Stands for Art in April by Steve Parks
- Spy Concert Review: The Final 3 in MSO Concerto Playoff by Steve Parks
- Spy Review: Jonathan Richman at the Avalon by Mark Pelavin
- Spy Art Review: Something(s) New in Downtown Easton by Steve Parks
Delmarva Review
Delmarva Review: Unyielding Love by Catherine DeNunzio
Author’s Note: When my parents were dying and thereafter, the poems I read about loss used particular metaphors, and columns about mental health suggested cultivating everyday ... [Continue Story]
- Delmarva Review: Helen to Euripides by Christopher Honey
- Delmarva Review: Time The Teacher by Julian Koslow
- Delmarva Review: Movies and Moving by Mia Mazzeo
- Delmarva Review: Day Before Easter by Mercedes Lawry
- Delmarva Review: Art by Robert Stone
- Delmarva Review: Fisherman Blues by Sara Atwater
- Delmarva Review: The Life of Secrets by Susan Okie
- Delmarva Review: Gold Digger by Leslie Pietrzyk
- Delmarva Review: Ghost Blankets by Susan Bucci Mockler
- Delmarva Review: 14 Inches of Snow by Madeleine Cohen Oakley
- Delmarva Review: When I First Met You by Michelle Cacho-Negrete
- Delmarva Review: Story by Dale Stromberg
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: Sheila at Rest by Michelle Harding O’Brien
Chesapeake Bay workboats deserve a day off every once in a while! “”Sheila at Rest” by Michelle Harding O’Brien. ... [Continue Story]
- Chesapeake Lens: The Big Curve by David Sites
- Chesapeake Lens: Aqua Alta by Hanson Robbins
- Chesapeake Lens: “Hand Tonging” by Jay Fleming
- Chesapeake Lens: Rain, Rain, Go Away by JP Henry
- Chesapeake Lens: The Key Bridge by Jarvin Hernandez
- Chesapeake Lens: Back Home by Trudy Anderson
- Chesapeake Lens: Heading South by Jay Fleming
- Chesapeake Lens: A Splash of Color by Chase Morgan
- Chesapeake Lens: The Girls in the Boat by Lee Goodwin
- Chesapeake Lens: All That Glitters by Pat Anderson
- Chesapeake Lens: Look Up! By Wendy Roth
- Chesapeake Lens: Snow Valentine by Steve Forrer
- Chesapeake Lens: Short-eared Owl by J. Mitchel Adolph
- Chesapeake Lens: Monochrome by Deidra Lyngard
- Chesapeake Lens: On the Wing by Paul A. Hanley, Jr.
Design
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the Masters: Artists’ Mothers
Artists frequently have painted their mothers. The best-known painting is James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s of his mother. It has become an icon. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His parents were Anna Matilda McNeill and George Washington Whistler, a widower with three children. Anna and George had an additional five children, […]
- Looking at the Masters: Sliman Mansour
- Looking at the Masters: Birds’ Head Haggadah
- Looking at the Masters: Daisies and Beavers
- Looking at the Masters: Edward Hicks
- Looking at the Masters: Charles Willson Peale
- Looking at the Masters: The Last Supper
- Looking at the Masters: Daffodil and Falcon
- Looking at the Masters: Rachael Breen
- Looking at the Masters: De Claris Mulieribus
- Looking at the Masters: Edward Mitchell Bannister
- Looking at the Masters: Violets and Wolves
- Looking at the Masters: The Progress of Love
- Looking at the Masters: The Year of the Dragon
- Looking at the Masters: Charles Ethan Porter
- Looking at the Masters: Carnation and Otter
Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 30 to October 1 “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all ... [Continue Story]
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- Publisher’s Notes: A Different Summer, Spy Weather, and a Few More Spies
The Library Guy with Bill Peak
The Library Guy: Donald Hall Award Winning Poet Joy Priest
Bill’s guest today is the young poet Joy Priest, whose very first book of poetry, Horsepower, won the prestigious Donald Hall Prize for Poetry last ... [Continue Story]
- The Library Guy: Ann Finkbeiner on Wars in Space
- The Library Guy: USNA Poet Temple Cone Talks to Bill Peak
- The Library Guy: Poet Meredith Davies Hadaway Talks to Bill Peak
- The Library Guy: Poet Sue Ellen Thompson Talks to Bill Peak
- The Library Guy: New Yorker Writer Casey Cep on Dorothy Day
- The Library Guy: An Exit Interview with Talbot County Free Library’s Bill Peak
Arts Notes
The Less Stress Doc Delivers a Roadmap to Less Stress in New Book: Highway to Your Happy Place
Everyone wants to have less stress. In his new book, Highway to Your Happy Place: A Roadmap to Less Stress, Gary Sprouse M.D. – also known as The Less ... [Continue Story]
- Carpe Diem Arts Alive! Brookletts Lunchtime Series Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month and Mother’s Day
- Chesapeake Film Festival: Celebrating Independent Cinema in Historic Easton and Chestertown, Maryland
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Chestertown Presents Organ Recital by Ken Cowan
- Zebra Gallery Features New Artists
- CORRECTION: The Art of Storytelling: Panel Discussion and Workshop with Filmmakers at the Talbot County Free Library is now on Sunday, September 29, at 10:30 a.m.
- The Secret Life of Adkins, Photographs by Kellen McCluskey, on View through June 29 at Adkins Arboretum
- 8th Annual Art of the Garden opens at The Trippe Gallery
- Plein Air Pop Up Exhibit First Friday May 3 on the Waterfowl Building lawn
- The Tidewater Singers Spring Concerts
- Studio B Art Gallery Presents “Flourish: a Celebration of Spring”
- Chesapeake Music Announces Winners of 11th Biennial Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition for Young Professionals
- May Exhibit at The Artist’s Gallery: Treasures of the Chesapeake by Steve Bleinberger