Looking Back and Forward with Talbot Arts: A Chat with Director Joan Levy
As Maryland faces ongoing budget pressure and uncertainty about future state support, arts organizations across the Eastern Shore are watching Annapolis closely. Historically, tight budgets have often hit the arts first, raising concerns about what lies ahead for local nonprofits in 2025 and 2026. In this Spy interview, we spoke with Joan Levy, executive director of Talbot Arts, about how the ... [Continue Story]
Arts Highlights
Shrek the Musical Comes to the Avalon Just in Time for the Holidays
When Shrek the Musical stomps onto the Avalon Theatre stage this month, it arrives with the kind of joyful chaos only an Avalon holiday production can ... [Continue Story]
- Spy Review: A Choral Rose for Christmas by Steve Parks
- Spy Review: MSO’s Opera-Flavored ‘Holiday Joy’ by Steve Parks
- AI is Coming for the Music Industry
- Spy Review: Cinematic Classical Gas, by Steve Parks
- A Waterfowl Weekend with Artist Sandy Alanko
- Spy Review: MSO Salutes 3 of the All-Time Greats by Steve Parks
- ESWA Launches First Holiday Book Festival at Cult Classic Brewery, Dec. 13
- Spy Review: Dracula’s Brides Seek Vengeance by Steve Parks
- Dracula Reimagined: Cambridge’s Groove Theatre Returns with a Feminist Twist
- The Bay to Ocean Journal 2025: A Mirror to the Shore’s Creative Heart
- Tred Avon Players Goes Hot n’ Cole in Oxford: A Chat with Director Marcia Gilliam and TAP’s Sammie Adams-Mercer
- Academy Art Museum Appoints Brian J. Lang as Director of Curatorial Affairs
Delmarva Review
Taking flight? Will Delmarva Review come in for a landing?
It’s hard to imagine the Delmarva Review ever having trouble finding writers eager to submit their work. However, in 2007, when the Eastern Shore Writers Association was a ... [Continue Story]
- Delmarva Review: The “Best of” Anthology
- Delmarva Review: Leitmotif by Rita Plush
- Delmarva Review: Arrogance by Katherine J. Williams
- Delmarva Review: A System of Seeing by Colin Jeffrey Morris
- Delmarva Review: The End of the Story by Patty Somlo
- Delmarva Review: Something More Than Winter Weighs (Upon Me) by John Muro
- Delmarva Review: Unknowable by Mary-Cecile Gee
- Delmarva Review: Traumas by Andrew Payton
- Delmarva Review: Dry Eye by Jean McDonough
- Delmarva Review: Cadence by K. Alma Peterson
- Delmarva Review: You Learn Transaction, Before Anything Else by Marlowe Jones
- Delmarva Review: Now Dimming by Mercedes Lawry
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: “Riley’s Lock” By Lee Goodwin
The Potomac River, one of the Bay’s major tributaries, flows on at dusk. “Riley’s Lock” by Lee Goodwin. ... [Continue Story]
- Chesapeake Lens: ”Tundra Swans” by Geoffrey S. Baker
- Chesapeake Lens: “Winter’s Grip” By Kathy Heckner Shirk
- Chesapeake Lens: “Abandoned” By William L. Thompson
- Chesapeake Lens: “On the Hunt” By Vibhanshu Shekkar
- Chesapeake Lens: “Tradition” by Michale Dreese
- Chesapeake Lens: “Morning Mist” by Richard Shanks
- Chesapeake Lens: “Cooper’s Hawk” By Mike Dougherty
- Chesapeake Lens: Autumnal Splendor by Harry Greenspun
- Chesapeake Lens: “The Dream” by Jane Aylor
- Chesapeake Lens: “Ghost Ship”by Robert Krohn
- Chesapeake Lens: Stillness by Sherri Baton
- Chesapeake Lens: “Flying” from Eastwind Photos.
- Chesapeake Lens: “The Colors of Autumn” By Albie Sayers
- Chesapeake Lens: “This Magical Creature” by Josh Brick
- Chesapeake Lens: “Day is Done” by Larry Reese
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the Masters: Epiphany
Epiphany was celebrated on Tuesday, January 6, this year. The King James Version of the Book of Matthew tells the story: “There came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, “Where is he that is born King of the Jews, for we saw his star in the east, and are come to worship him?” […]
- Looking at the Masters: The Feast of Stephen
- Looking at the Masters: Christmas with Grandma Moses
- Looking at the Masters: Edvard Munch
- Looking at the Masters: Our Lady of Guadelupe
- Looking at the Masters: Grandma Moses
- Looking at the Masters: Christi Belcourt
- Looking at the Masters: Chrysanthemums
- Looking at the Masters: St Martin’s Day and Martinmas
- Looking at the Masters: The Pit and the Pendulum
- Looking at the Masters: Charles Burchfield in Autumn
- Looking at the Masters: Judy Baca
- Looking at the Masters: Judy Baca
- Looking at the Masters: Camille Pissarro
- Looking at the Masters: Mary Morris Vaux Walcott
- Looking at the Masters: Paul DiPasquale
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
Oxford Community Center Upcoming Activities January, February, March 2026
ONGOING WEEKLY CLASSES Mondays, 1-2:30pm; Yoga with Suzie Hurley, Advanced beginners, $20/class, 10 classes $150 Mondays, 6pm; Jam Session, ... [Continue Story]
- Easton Choral Arts Invites you to “Come Fly With Us” This Spring
- SMAL Announces 2026 Mixed Media Exhibit Winners
- Carpe Diem Arts Announces 2026 Arts Alive: Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Concert Series at Brookletts Place
- Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Presents February Ensembles Series Concerts Featuring Mozart, Schubert, and Penderecki
- January 6: Twelfth Night or Epiphany
- Still Waters Trio Presents Miniatures on January 11 at The Church of the Holy Trinity
- Music Theory for Folk Musicians at Allegro Academy
- January, February 2026 Upcoming Activities Oxford Community Center
- The Bay Country Chorus Makes a Difference in the Lives of the Vulnerable Through Song
- SMAL Announces Winners Of 2025 “Martha Hudson Awards For Excellence In Watercolor”
- SMAL Announces Winners of 2025 “Martha Hudson Awards For Excellence in Watercolor”
- AAM Joins the Fun of Artful Ingenuity at Easton’s Holiday Parade
