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Brother, Help Thyself to give awards
Baltimore event will include performances by D.C.’s Different Drummers and the Gay Men’s Chorus
Last year’s Brother, Help Thyself awards ceremony (Washington Blade file photo by Pete Exis)
Brother, Help Thyself hosts its grant/awards reception Saturday at Grand Central (1001/1003 N Charles St., Baltimore) at 2 p.m.
Brother, Help Thyself is an organization that provides financial aid and other support to non-profit organizations that serve the LGBT community in the Baltimore and the Washington metropolitan areas. The reception will include music by D.C.’s Different Drummers and the Gay Men’s Chorus along with a cash bar. Awards will be given to community leaders and there will be checks for LGBT charities.
The reception is free to attend. Winners and grant recipients will be announced at the event.
For more information, visit brotherhelpthyself.net.
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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.
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