ENTERTAINMENT
By Mary Carole McCauley, The Baltimore Sun | June 10, 2013
The small wooden trunk is covered with red leather, painted with an ocher floral embroidery and studded with brass nails - and it couldn't have announced its owner's intention more clearly. The 19-year-old Baltimore beauty who packed the trunk with her books and with a black lace mantilla wasn't planning to merely travel between two continents. She was determined to conquer them. On one side of the trunk, plain and simple, is stenciled her birth name, "Elizabeth Patterson. " But on the other side, not one, but two labels declare the trunk to be the property of "Madame Bonaparte, nee Patterson.
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AEGIS STAFF REPORT | June 3, 2013
The Harford County Cultural Arts Board and the Harford County Commission on Disabilities are seeking submissions for a juried art exhibit, Art Without Boundaries. Interested artists, with or without disabilities, are invited to submit one to two pieces, both two and three dimensional, on Monday, July 8 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Student Gallery in Joppa Hall, Harford Community College, 401 Thomas Run Road, Bel Air. For more information, please contact Harford County Cultural Arts Board Coordinator Natalie Weeks at 410-638-3578 or nfweeks@harfordcountymd.gov . The Art Without Boundaries exhibit is in recognition of the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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By Mike Giuliano | May 31, 2013
The "Resident Visual Artists Exhibit 2013" showcases artists who maintain studios at the Howard County Arts Council. They're making art at this Ellicott City facility, but their imaginations roam all over the place. A case in point is Mary Jo Tydlacka, who is well-known for watercolors depicting the historic district in Ellicott City and other sites around Howard County. She travels far from home for the subject matter in the current show, however, with three watercolors and an oil painting that depict Italy.
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By Bob Allen, For The Baltimore Sun | May 30, 2013
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was, without doubt, the most important rail system in the Civil War's Eastern theater. There's hardly a pivotal battle or event during the four-year conflict in which the B&O didn't play at least some role. Civil War historian and Linthicum resident Daniel Toomey, author of "The War Came by Train: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad During the Civil War" and curator of war-themed exhibit at Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum, goes a step further. "The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was truly the first front of the Civil War," Toomey writes in his book.
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By Mike Giuliano | May 16, 2013
There is so much constant movement in our world that it takes an artist to translate some of that motion into a lasting image. In the aptly titled exhibit "Motion" at the Artists' Gallery in Columbia, painters Rana Geralis and Nancy Lee Davis encourage you to linger and look at the animals, people and cars that ordinarily don't slow down for inspection. This pairing of two artists is at its most concentrated in the side-by-side installation of two very small works that amount to portraits of individual animals: Columbia resident Geralis has a watercolor, "Paint Pony," and Clarksville resident Davis has an oil painting, "Cow Eating.