A day after the third Trump and Clinton debate, they’ll be on stage together again. Watch on CSPAN.
Did you know that our presidential candidates, Trump and Clinton, will appear on stage together tonight? They will. According to …
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Update: Around Baltimore there are currently numerous opportunities to work in the arts
The Peale Center seeks Executive Director September 20, 2016 The Peale Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to re-opening Baltimore’s …
Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece on display for the first time with the preliminary drawings at the Morgan
The Morgan Library & Museum: Completed when he was just twenty-three years old, Rembrandt’s Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver has long …
Dr. Carla Hayden, the next United States Librarian of Congress
News from the Library of Congress Press contact: Gayle Osterberg (202) 707-0020 Press contact: Jennifer Gavin (202) 707-1940 July 13, 2016 Senate …
“You, too, can have a career in television.”
As World War II was winding down—and prior to plastics—the hot new careers were in television. In 1945, the U.S. government …
Brutalist Architecture. A new book is in the works.
Reyner Banham defined Brutalist buildings as being “1, Formal legibility of a plan; 2, Clear exhibition of Structure; and 3, Valuation …
Not the best question to ask a gay guy: “So what does your wife do?”
I’m a writer in the financial services and asset management industry. Some years ago, a new manager came to lead …
How the FX team created Mars for Matt Damon
Visual effects companies Framestore and MPC were tasked with creating the red planet in “The Martian.” From realistic landscape shots …
Baltimore opportunities in the arts, January 2016
BARCO seeks Marketing & Communications Manager January 26, 2016 MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER The Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO), a …
NASA publishes entire Apollo photo archive to Flickr.
More than 8,400 high-resolution photographs captured during NASA’s Apollo moon landings have been released on Flickr, featuring every single image taken …
Iris Apfel. Wisdom aged like a fine wine.
I’ve written about Iris on BrockelPress before. Jacob and I are totally on board with her thoughts on style, design, and making …
Hear Reese Witherspoon read the first chapter of Go Set a Watchman
The newspaper, The Guardian, is a self-described center-left British national daily. Founded in 1821 as a local paper replacing the …
The traditional 1st Anniversary gift is paper. We’re giving ourselves 42.7 pounds of it.
Today is our 1st/22nd anniversary—one year married; twenty-two years together. (We were ready to make it legal many years ago, but …
The one about a phone call from NASA, holding Aerogel, and my name on a space probe.
I’ve always been a science and space geek, so I’m looking forward to July 14th and New Horizons’ close encounter with …
New art museums being constructed at a record pace. One of them gives me pause.
ArtNews: It has been a huge year for museum construction, with many institutions—public and private, established and upstart—spending, in total, hundreds …
Join us this Saturday. Help celebrate the Historic Charles Street Association’s 100th Birthday.
Here’s the scoop from Baltimore’s HCSA: 100? It’s true! HCSA turns 100 years old this year… and we’re celebrating!! From …
The 2015 AP Stylebook. Now available.
The Associated Press released the 2015 edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law this past week, …
Free art books from the Met. 438 of them, and counting.
It’s no secret that art books are expensive. They’re wonderful resources and often great reads, but just a few titles …
Bulgariana Wine featured on WTOP Radio. Free Baltimore tasting this evening.
Here’s your invite. Roland Park Wines & Liquors hope you’ll join us for a free Wine Tasting! Tonight (Friday, April 3rd, …
61 years ago today, television took a huge step in validating broadcast journalism.
On March 9th, 1954, Edward R. Murrow went head to head with Senator Joseph McCarthy with this broadcast of CBS …