10/6/2008

Joyce Kozloff

Since the 1970s, American artist Joyce Kozloff has explored collage that brings together imagery, ideas, and materials from different cultures and sources. She was associated with the so-called Pattern and Decoration contingent of American art from the 1970s to the mid-'80s that rekindled an interest in such decorative flourishes in part as a response to minimalism's stark ideals. Her most recent work extrapolates these ideas into her "Voyages" series that densely, stream-of-consciously explores representations of cartographic material. She talks about her work in this afternoon's lecture series. (Bret McCabe)

free. MICA, Baltimore.

10/6/2008

Common, N.E.R.D.

Common is everyone's favorite nice guy, your fruits, vegetables, and loving-God MC. And you know this, likely, because he's also the gentleman that brought what has historically been an underground rap positive ethos to the mainstream with his breakout, and then breakout-again album, Like Water for Chocolate, and its briefly ubiquitous "The Light," which brought popular rap an elegance, reserve, and poignancy that would still be shocking to the music industry almost a decade later. (Michael Byrne)

$40, advance $37. Rams Head Live, Baltimore.

10/6/2008

Cian Nugent, Ben Reynolds, and George Stavis

The Imaginational Anthem Tour

Golden West Café, Baltimore.

10/7/2008

Hot Chip, Growing

Hot Chip has to be one of the most all-around likable bands in the dance music universe--geeky, whimsical, and, three largely successfully albums later, still self-effacing. The U.K. group also has to be one of the most band bands making dance music--as in, this is five dudes with real live instruments crafting deft, often bubbling songs that draw on just about every thread of pop-music DNA in the canon: funk, soul, rock, techno, for starters. Populism and geektitude have seldom found such comfortable marriage. We also have to love that Hot Chip has Growing tagging along on this tour. While far from "difficult," the duo's peculiar style of guitar-based drone experimentation might not have ever graced a venue like Rams Head Live otherwise. (Michael Byrne)

$22, $20 advance . Rams Head Live, Baltimore.

10/9/2008

Charlaine Harris

The inventor of Sookie Stackhouse--True Blood's telepathic barmaid heroine--and author of Southern Vampire Mysteries series, the latest of which is All Together Dead.

free. Barnes and Noble, Baltimore.

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