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June 4, 2009
TODAY 'Night in Spain': The musicians of Veritas Musicas present an evening of Spanish songs composed by Manuel De Falla, Fermin Marla Alvarez, Enrique Granados, Fernando Obradors and others. "A Night in Spain: Songs of Spain" will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Jewish Community Center, 5700 Park Heights Ave. Admission is $15-$18. For tickets and other information, call 410-542-4900. Acoustic music: The band Arbouretum previews its all-acoustic set with the band Violet Hour before playing a sold-out Carnegie concert hall next week.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | January 15, 2009
Rowland W. Fontz, a master Baltimore clockmaker who kept the Bromo Seltzer and City Hall dome clocks ticking for decades, died Saturday of pneumonia and complications of Parkinson's disease at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Pasadena resident was 82. Mr. Fontz, who was born and raised in a Montgomery Street rowhouse, graduated in 1944 from Southern High School, where he had studied music. During the war years, he ushered at the old McHenry Theater in Federal Hill, and later played the organ at the now-demolished Century Theater.
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December 4, 2008
theater The Nativity story: This retelling of the Nativity story at Rep Stage was written by William Gibson, who replaced the archangel Gabriel with an inept spirit who follows Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem. The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Slaughter of the 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree is performed through Jan. 4 at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. Showtimes vary. Tickets are $12-$30. Call 410-772-4900 or go to www.repstage.org.
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By MEREDITH COHN | August 21, 2008
Outdoor Art Station North Arts & Entertainment Inc. and Shanklin Outdoor Media are presenting a new public art display in Station North. The art consists of two 20-foot-by-20-foot reproductions of works by area artists. They are Grade Finale by Brady Starr and Station North by Daniel Stuelpnagel. They are mounted side-by-side on the back of the large billboard in view of pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists from the sidewalk and street. They will be on display through the fall, and new art will be featured on a rotating basis.
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By JENNIFER CHOI | July 24, 2008
Salsa, Polka FEST There's a lot more than salsa and polka at Salsapolkalooza, hosted by Creative Alliance. At this outdoor event there will be live bands; break dancers; children's art activities, including an egg-decorating workshop and face-painting; a global marketplace and more. Vendors will also be selling international foods. The event takes place 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday in front of the Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. Call 410-276-1651 or go to creativealliance.
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By ARIANE SZU-TU | June 5, 2008
TOWERING TALENT The grand opening of the newly remodeled Bromo Seltzer building approaches. Modeled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, the famous Bromo Seltzer clock tower has undergone renovations to convert its offices into studios for visual and literary artists. The renovations, which were completed at the end of last year, transformed the 97-year-old building into 12 floors of artist studios. Today is the first chance for the public to see the interior since the renovations ended.
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By Edward Gunts | June 1, 2008
In Studio 702, Billy Joel sings "The Piano Man" as Baltimore native Brian Glazer Gerber swirls red paint around a large canvas he has stretched across the floor. In 904, writer Sarah Richards types notes to herself for a tale about the "camping trip from Hell" that she'll relate this month as part of the popular storytelling series at Center Stage, "The Stoop." Open House 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, 15 S. Eutaw St. Visitors can register for a drawing to win a work of art donated by the tower artists.
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By Edward Gunts | June 1, 2008
Creating artists' studios inside Baltimore's historic Bromo Seltzer Tower, part of the factory where Capt. Isaac Emerson made his famous headache and heartburn remedy, brought its own set of headaches for the public officials, architects and contractors who worked on the $1.5 million project. Their solution, which will be unveiled at a grand opening Thursday, is one of the most inspired and resourceful preservation projects Baltimore has seen in some time, a feat of ingenuity that retains the tower's 1911 appearance while promising to keep it bustling with activity.
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By Ann LoLordo | February 2, 2008
For the time conscious - and challenged - commuter, the Bromo Seltzer Tower clock has been invaluable. Stark against the sky, it offered assurance that you would get to where you had to be in time. Or on time. Punctual, an old professor once said. And if you fell in with the latecomers, an impulse to step on it never followed derision or complaint. It may have been encouraged, the clock's big wooden hands so seriously set at keeping time. Whether driving east, west, north or south, the commuter only had to look up to know the time, the day moving slowly and steadily across the clock face.
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By Edward Gunts | November 19, 2007
A local photographer and professor of fine art at Coppin State University will be the first artist to occupy a studio in Baltimore's newly renovated Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower. And she won't have to pay rent for the privilege. Linda Day Clark, a 44-year-old Reservoir Hill resident and 1994 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, has been named the first winner of the C. Sylvia and Eddie C. Brown Studio Competition. Clark will receive a lease for a 360-square-foot studio on the second floor of the historic Bromo-Seltzer tower, rent-free for two years.