Ten Tigers' friend, Zoe Charlton, will be exhibiting her recent works at Towson University from October 10 - November 9, 2008. This is very exciting!
Noel and Andy from Closed Caption Comics
Dixie, Bonner, John and Alex love comics
Tim Paggi's "A Baltimore Love Thing" closed at the Annex Theater this Saturday to a full and enthusiastic audience. The play, starring Maggie Burke and Owen Brightman as a dysfunctional couple in a post-apocalyptic Baltimore, is a smartly written comedy that balances its narrative with a postmodern awareness of the playwriting art.
Paggi introduces the audience to his play with a chorus (played by Sarah Perrich, Mike Farley, and Kevin Blackistone), whom he refers to by their numbers, telling of the changes to Baltimore in the years between now and the Baltimore of the future, citing, among the many atrocities, the Frat Boy Uprising in Charles Village.
As well as the two main characters, Adam Rothstein and Milana Brascavsky are a food-seeking, cat/mouse team of futuristic self-help-gurus. They hatch a scheme to help Terrance (Brightman) find love in return for food. Cat and Mouse choose Ester (Burke) as the girl for Terrance, and help to coach them into a caustic relationship.
Ester and Terrance have a fight at her party over the presence of "The Robot," played by Lana Goldzer, a destructive force in future-Baltimore. The robot, Ester and Terrance make odwallatov cocktails, escalating into a machismo suicide-showdown, the burning of City Hall and a lifestyle change for Ester. 
The show was excellent, fun, different and entertaining, we look forward to more work from Tim Paggi and his fellow playwrights at the Annex Theater.
These are the photos we managed to take at the opening of Stories From The Woods, between nervousness and glasses of wine:
Robert Tillman, Rick Delaney, exhibiting artist Christine Tillman and Zoe Charlton in front of Emily Slaughter's video and installation
Sara Seidman and Merrill Malouf
Cara Ober and her sweet "Obama" necklace
Bonner Sale's "Time Cutters"
Exhibiting artist John Bohl (right)
Kate, exhibiting artist Bonner Sale (waving), and Zac Willis
Exhibiting artist Emily Slaughter, and Melody
Friday • October 3 • 7PM–10PM: EXHIBITION OPENING PARTY: THE MARRIAGE OF ART, SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY
Join artists, scientists, philosophers, lenders, museum members and exhibition curator Rebecca Hoffberger for this celebratory evening of big ideas and inventive art. Light fare, cool beverages, and music by Wilma & The Wombats. FREE to Museum Members. Open to the public: $20.
The American Visionary Art Museum's 14th and newest mega art exhibition, "The Marriage of Art, Science & Philosophy" is a wedding of playfulness, intuition, imagination and desire – partners common to creative invention of all sort. The exhibition's 50 visionary artists take a fresh look at the very notion of sound, color, number and scale in their pursuit of wonder. From fractal quilts to extolling the role Sci Fi plays in inspiring real science, this is a nuptial dance fit for adults and children of all ages. The exhibition runs October 4, 2008 – September 6, 2009.
Stories From The Woods curated by Alex Ebstein
October 3 - 31, 2008
Current Space at 30 S. Calvert Street
www.currentspace.com
Opening reception, October 3 from 7 - 10 pm
Exhibiting Artists: Bonner Sale, Christine Buckton Tillman, Emily Nachison, Emily Slaughter, John Bohl, Annie Gray Robrecht
Stories From The Woods investigates a fascination with the natural world. The showcased artists explore a contemporary reinterpretation of nature, while simultaneously drawing from past folklore and classic painting. Through stylized, representational, sculpture, narrative paintings, and whimsical installation pieces by a group of invited, regional artists, Stories from the Woods seeks to transform the space into a platform for these fantastical narratives.
(AVAM looks nice, but mine will be better)
