ENTERTAINMENT
By Karin Remesch | February 18, 1999
Delightful dogsThe region's finest canines strut into the 5th Regiment Armory at Howard and Preston streets from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday to put on the dog at the Maryland Kennel Club's annual all-breed dog show and obedience trial. More than 2,000 dogs, representing 140 breeds, will vie for ribbons, kennel club points and the coveted title "Best of Show." And vendors will offer a variety of dog-related items. Tickets are $4, $2 children and seniors. Call 410-879-0862 or 410-747-5974.'A Voice I Will Send'Discover ancient West African religious traditions and examine African-American identity when "A Voice I Will Send: Sisters Talk About a New Millennium" is presented tomorrow through March 7 at the Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St. The play -- written and performed by Denise Gantt, Lakia Green, Tanisha Brady Christie and Ieasha Prime -- is presented by the Medusa Theatre Company, the Artistic Connection and the Baltimore Theatre Project in partnership with Towson University, 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays.
NEWS
By Leonard Pitts | November 30, 1999
MIAMI -- I wasn't scared. Let's get that straight from the get-go.If you want to call it anything, call it concerned. Or, at most, apprehensive.Hey, you'd be apprehensive, too, if you were 30-something thousand feet up and your plane suddenly started emitting a noise like this: "EEEEEEEE." Like the dental drill from hell. Like a 12-ton mosquito. Like Patti Labelle being tortured.And then a passenger decided to land the plane. But I'm getting ahead of myself.Let's begin at the beginning: I'm on a flight to Miami, sitting in the back row. Just unpacked my laptop and placed it on the tray table.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Karin Remesch | August 13, 1998
Newport Folk FestivalOn the road for the first time since its launch almost four decades ago, the Newport Folk Festival stops Sunday at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia. The roster of performers includes Nanci Griffith, John Hiatt, Joan Baez, Marc Cohn, Violent Femmes, Rodney Crowell, Lucinda Williams, Lisa Loeb (pictured), Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Leo Kottke, Mark Eitzel and Wilco. The concert starts at 3 p.m.; gates open at 2 p.m. Pavilion tickets are $39 and $50; lawn seats are $27.75.
NEWS
By Robert Hilson Jr. | April 1, 1997
Kenneth L. Moore, who as a child performed gospel music in Baltimore churches with his sisters as part of the Moore Singers and later played with the Tina Turner band, died March 25 of undetermined causes while on tour in Australia. He was 45.Mr. Moore, who lived in Los Angeles in recent years, had been the musical director, a background vocalist and keyboard player for Ms. Turner's band since 1977."He was always the boss as far as the musical arrangements went," said Janet Arlington, a longtime friend who is associated with the group.
FEATURES
By M. Dion Thompson | October 26, 1996
It was barely sun-up. A chill was still in the air, and on the highways, headlamps lighted the fading dawn. In the line of more than 200 outside Bibelot books, Lorraine Mackey, 27, held the No. 2 spot. She had claimed it at 2: 15 a.m.By yesterday evening, the bookstore's list had reached more than 1,000 people, each one wanting a few cherished moments with Patti LaBelle, time enough to get an autograph, a smile, perhaps a quick snapshot of themselves with their beloved diva as she closed another copy of her book, "Don't Block the Blessings: Revelations of a Lifetime," freshly signed, "Love, Patti."
FEATURES
By J. D. Considine | November 22, 1995
Let's get this much straight from the start: "Waiting to Exhale" (Arista 18796) is not the new Whitney Houston album.That's not because it's a soundtrack album. After all, "The Bodyguard" was a soundtrack, too, and like "Waiting to Exhale" included tracks by other singers. But Houston was clearly the star of that album and generated the album's only hits."Waiting to Exhale," on the other hand, is more an ensemble piece. Some of that has to do with the fact that Houston only appears on three tracks (one of them a duet with CeCe Winans)
FEATURES
By J. D. Considine | February 9, 1994
It's shaping up as a winner of a winter for singer Toni Braxton.On Monday, the Severn native was a double victor at the American Music Awards, toting off trophies for favorite new soul-R&B artist and favorite new adult contemporary artist.That may only be the beginning, too, as Braxton is up for twoGrammy awards, including Best New Artist.It's hard to say whether Braxton's success at the American Music Awards (which are voted on by a random sampling of pop music fans) will affect her chances at the Grammys (which are voted on by qualified members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences)
FEATURES
By Patricia O'Haire | October 19, 1993
Michael Crawford said he feels as if he's just had a baby.Not one that needs to be fed and changed, however. Or that lives and breathes. No -- this one is called "A Touch of Music in the Night," and it's his latest album on Atlantic Records, featuring songs he calls "adult pop numbers" and two duets -- one with Barbra Streisand ("The Music of the Night" from "Phantom of the Opera") and a completely new song with Patti LaBelle ("With Your Hand Upon My Heart")."We started this album nine months ago," Mr. Crawford said the other morning.
FEATURES
By David Zurawik | September 19, 1992
The premise of characters in their 20s, fresh out of college and entering the workaday world, is not exactly new. There are only about half a dozen shows stroking that concept this season.But in only one of those shows does the young graduate wind up working for singer Patti LaBelle -- she of the mighty hair, flying hands, impossible voice and regal carriage. And that show is "Out All Night," which premieres at 8:30 tonight on WMAR (Channel 2).Part Earth Mother and part Queen of the Universe, moving like someone wired into a Walkman pumping out the hottest sounds you never heard, LaBelle is all over the place in tonight's pilot as Chelsea Paige, a former singing star who now owns a successful nightclub.
FEATURES
By Nestor Aparicio | August 7, 1991
IN THE WAKE of Pier Six Concert Pavilion's sudden cancellation of last night's show, the amphitheater's management has begun to take a hard look at its schedule and consider measures to take to prevent any more cancellations.Pier Six, which has held eight shows since reopening on July 25 with almost 1,200 additional seats, has lost money on all but two acts -- John Denver and Patti LaBelle -- and it just broke even on those, managers said.Key managers of Pier Six and the Baltimore Center for the Performing Arts, which runs the theater, will hold meetings this week to discuss the soft ticket sales of the bulk of the season's shows, general manager Karen Ritgert said.