Arts & Entertainment
Baltimore arts news in brief: through Nov. 29
Tenors in Baltimore Friday night, Alliance plans AIDS Day cabaret and more
The Canadian Tenors — easy on the eyes and ears. (Photo courtesy BSO).
Canadian Tenors here for holiday show
BSO SuperPops presents the Canadian Tenors to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (1212 Cathedral St., Baltimore) tonight (Black Friday) at 8 p.m.
The group has taken its blend of classical and contemporary repertoire across the globe, performing with stars such as Sting, Sheryl Crow, Neil Young and Paul McCartney. Their holiday album “The Perfect Gift” went gold in Canada within three weeks and has since gone platinum.
Tickets are $28 to $63. For more information, visit bsomusic.org.
Festival of Trees this weekend
Kennedy Krieger Institute’s annual Festival of Trees starts today (Friday) at 10 am at the Maryland State Fairgrounds and goes until Sunday evening at 6 p.m.
The festival includes a fairyland forest featuring 600 decorated trees and wreaths. The weekend will also feature a train garden, live entertainment, crafts, carnival games, silent auction and 100 different gift boutiques.
Tickets are $13 and $7 for children and seniors. For more information, visit festivaloftrees.kennedykrieger.org.
World AIDS Day cabaret benefit
The Creative Alliance will host a cabaret to benefit AIDS Action Baltimore and honoring World AIDS Day with music. The event takes place at 8 p.m. on Nov. 30 at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson (3134 Eastern Ave.)
Adam Cooley, star of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” directs and sings in an evening of Broadway, pop, rock and original tunes sung by some of Baltimore’s most talented vocalists. Also included are readings from the pandemic. Cast includes Mink Stole, Sunrize Highway, Alexis Holzer, Quae Simpson, Queen Earth and more.
AIDS Action Baltimore founder Lynda Dee joins Johns Hopkins Hospital’s AIDS researchers in discussing the options moving forward in a dialogue with the audience. Tickets are $20, $15 for members of the Creative Alliance. For more information, visit creativealliance.org.
Glimpses behind closed doors
The Baltimore Symphony Associates hosts its annual fundraiser “Symphony Homes for the Holidays” beginning on Thursday morning at 10 a.m. It runs through Dec. 1 at the Monkton Mill (2019 Monkton Road).
To benefit the orchestra, attendees will get tours of historical and elegant private residences in the area.
Tickets are $30. For more information, visit bsomusic.org.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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