BALTIMORE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
FEB. 4 THROUGH FEB. 11
6 IN THE WEEKLY: MARCH MARYLAND HOME AND GARDEN SHOW
CLUBS/CONCERTS/39 CLASSICAL/42
DANCE & DANCING/42 GAY & LESBIAN/45 STAGE/45 COMEDY/45 ART/45 WORDS/52 BENEFITS/53 SPECIAL EVENTS/53 TALKS PLUS/53 BUSINESS/54 SCREENS/56 KIDS/56
Through March 15, 4-9 P.M. March 6, 10 A.M.-9 P.M. March 7 and 13-14, 10 A.M.-6 P.M. March 8 and 15, Maryland State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Timonium, (410) 863-1180, mdhomeandgarden.com, $10, seniors $9, kids ages 6-12 $3, kids under 6 free. The temps are still in the 30s at night, and we have yet to see any sign of real respite from the miserable Mid-Atlantic winter. So maybe we’ll spend the next two weekends basking in the flowery goodness of indoor landscaped gardens and watching home-improvement demonstrations while dreaming about that bathroom and kitchen or bath renovation we can hardly afford. There will be wine tasting and 19 lush gardenscapes to wander through, 400 vendors, an orchid show, and an appearance by Food Network celeb (and Cake Love owner) Warren Brown. Tiptoe through the orchids with a plastic glass of wine in hand and ring in spring. (Erin Sullivan)
HEALTH & FITNESS/56 SPORTS & RECREATION/56 FILM/57 Not HIGH enough? See NOW HEAR THIS throughout the Baltimore Weekly calendar.
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WEDNESDAY 4
BENEATH THE SURFACE: POSTER EXHIBITION FROM IRAN
gram, but the Requiem hardly needs a makeweight. (Lee Gardner)
FRIDAY 6
THE CORONATION OF POPPEA
Through April 18, 11 A.M.-4 P.M., Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, 8000 York Road, (410) 704-2787, towson.edu, free. Original art and an insurgent collage sensibility in late 1970s and early ’80s show flyers and posters helped shape independent American punk’s DIY ethos. Anti-mass market visuals in 1960s and ’70s Eastern European movie posters created amazingly imaginative advertising language. Posters—an undeniably commercial enterprise—are revealing visual portals into how people define themselves and choose to communicate to their countrymen and peers. And Towson University’s Beneath the Surface: Poster Exhibition From Iran—curated by Nahid Tootoonchi, a Towson graphic-design assistant professor of Iranian descent—provides an essential peek into the everyday visual life of a country about which Americans remain greatly underinformed, even though it's been in the everyday news cycle for nearly a decade. (Bret McCabe)
Through March 14, 7:30 P.M., Great Hall Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral St., (410) 547-7997, operavivente.org, $33-$55. If you word associate “opera” with a Viking-horns-clad woman singing impossibly high notes while wearing ridiculous costumes, please reconsider. The Coronation of Poppea, written by Claudio Monteverdi and presented by Opera Vivente, takes a whole new turn in this English-language adaptation. The story, which chronicles the romantic relationships of the infamous Emperor Nero, is performed by Baltimore staples Ah Hong, Monica Reinagel, and David Korn, along with orchestral accompaniment by Harmonious Blacksmith. Opera Vivente strives to attract new audiences to the art of opera, so if you’re still skeptical, stop by 45 minutes early for a discussion with OV General Director John Bowen and members of the company to help ease your nerves. (Kathryn Mastandrea)
THURSDAY 5
SATURDAY 7
MOZART’S REQUIEM 8 P.M., Sunday at 3 P.M., Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St., (410) 827-5867, baltimore symphony.org, $25-$60. There are few more beautiful and more terrible pieces of music in the classical canon than Mozart’s Requiem, which he worked on during his own unwitting dying days and left unfinished at his death in 1791. This weekend the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of guest conductor Jun Märkl, and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, under the direction of Tom Hall, join forces to perform Mozart’s capstone, or maybe headstone, work; Christine Brandes, Susan Platts, Roger Honeywell, and Timothy Jones essay the solo parts. (Details about additional performances at the Music Center at Strathmore in Silver Spring and at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills are available at the BSO web site.) Stravinsky’s Apollo fills out the pro-
HOOPS
HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY Through March 14, (410) 737-8282, mdfoodbank.org. You have now lost all your excuses if you have always wanted to help the less fortunate, but didn’t have time to volunteer, or just didn’t know where to help. Throughout the second week of March, no matter where you live in Maryland, you can simply leave a bag of non-perishable food at your mailbox and a representative of the U.S. Postal Service, Boy Scouts, or Girl Scouts will come and pick it up. This week-long food drive is a project of Harvest for the Hungry in an effort to increase supplies for Baltimore soup kitchens, food pantries, and emergency shelters. The drive brings in nearly 14 million pounds of food each year. If your new excuse is that you do not have a residential mailbox, forget it: Post offices, Safeway stores,
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MARCH 4, 2009
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The Coronation of Poppea