Several vacant storefronts on Oneonta’s Main Street are filled thanks to the Oneonta Storefront Project. A papier-mâché jungle, carved basswood royalty, a celebration of pregnancy, and Oneonta in the 1960s are some of the themes of installations passersby can see in downtown Oneonta this summer.

The brainchild of artist Elizabeth Pereira, the Oneonta Storefront Project is a grassroots initiative that has grown into a collaborative effort to beautify downtown. So f...

When news of black people’s deaths involving police grabbed the public's attention in 2015 — including a string of high-profile losses such as Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Michael Brown and Eric Garner — the Glimmerglass Festival’s response was to commission a new opera.

At Home with Jeannie Howe, Executive Director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance by Cassandra Miller

If the artists and subjects of the pieces in Jeannie Howe’s home could step through their paintings, photographs, and sculptures, you would see the real and adopted family tree of Howe’s life.

Through her home décor, Howe has surrounded herself with loved ones—whether they be her talented sister, uncle, brother and son; college friends; Baltimore artists; ancestors with wandering eyes;

Stephanie Ybarra is only a couple of months into her full-time role as the artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage, but already she has met for listening sessions and meet-and-greets with dozens of leaders in the Baltimore community, been named the keynote speaker of Maryland Arts Day in Annapolis on Feb. 14, and completely rearranged the admin offices at 700 N. Calvert St.

If that’s what she’s done in less than two months, you can imagine what she’s accomplished in her almost two decades a

I like to make soundtracks for different periods in my life with songs that reflect my experiences (ex. “Young Americans” by David Bowie for my years teaching English in Europe, “Good As Hell” by Lizzo for the weeks following a breakup, etc.).

America has a soundtrack for its experiences, too, and the 20th century inspired a pretty amazing one. This month, Baltimore audiences will get a chance to learn the story behind some of the music and musicians that reflected—and shaped—our cultural landscape in not one, but three new theatrical productions.

Before he created “Family Guy” and “Ted,” Seth MacFarlane was a 9-year-old who was obsessed with John Williams film scores and acted in local productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. For the past several years, MacFarlane has been channeling his younger self by singing Rodgers and Hammerstein and Frank Sinatra songs with the world’s best orchestras. MacFarlane’s work as an orchestral frontman has earned him two Grammy nominations: for his 2011 debut, “Music Is Better Than Words,” and for 2015’s “No One Ever Tells You.”