Spy Concert Review: MSO Season Finale by Steve Parks
The Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra winds up its 2024-25 subscription season with a cello concerto masterpiece and a Mendelssohn double feature. The concert got off with a bang, though it’s almost tragic to think about a time when women, no matter their talent or even genius, were under-recognized or, worse, ignored because of their gender. Fanny […]
Democrats… This Time, You May Have a Real Choice by Clayton Mitchell
For years, Democratic voters in Maryland have been asked to fall in line. You are told who the frontrunner is. You are handed the talking points. You are expected to get excited about style over substance, slogans over solutions. And if you question the machine’s chosen candidate, you are labeled a traitor to the cause. […]
Spy Poetry: Room in Antwerp by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Editor’s Note: How carefully and lovingly this room in Antwerp is observed—how the light plays on the walls and dust settles over everything, much the way time sifts silently down over our lives, dimming the past and the lovers we left there. Room in Antwerp by Laure-Anne Bosselaar Dust covers the window, but light slips […]
Chesapeake Lens: “Magothy Sunrise” By Louise Zeitlin
Dawn breaks over the Magothy River, the promise of another spectacular day.