Dar Williams & Friend Together in Song at the Avalon by Steve Parks
“I won’t forget when Peter Pan came to my house, took my hand I said I was a boy I’m glad he didn’t check I learned to fly, I learned to fight I lived a whole life in one night.” –“When I Was a Boy,” Dar Williams She was born Dorothy Snowden Williams. One of her big sisters, Julie or Meredith, first mispronounced her name. Dar instead of Dorothy. And it stuck. For life. It’s just as well. Her parents had thought about naming her Darcy, after the character in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” But he was Mr. Darcy. When asked in a phone interview if that’s why she identified as a boy ... [Continue Story]
Arts Highlights
Spy Music Review: Concerto to Die For by Steve Parks
A remarkable evening of music and reflection opened appropriately with what amounts to a prayer. The lyrics to the hymn inspired by Sibelius’ tone ... [Continue Story]
- Unlock the Art of Storytelling: Writers Gather at Chesapeake College
- Spy Arts Diary: From Classical Leap Year to O.C. Movie Mecca by Steve Parks
- Mid-Shore Arts: Checking in with Oxford Community Center’s Liza Ledford
- Artist Jose Ramirez’s Journey from Guatemala to Dorchester in Color and Light
- Spy Arts Diary: A Welcoming Debut and a Broadway Preview by Steve Parks
- Marble Man: Sculptor Sebastian Martorana Brings the Public and Private to Life
- A Salute to Chesapeake Music’s Don Buxton
- Spy Art Review: Civil Rights, Wrongs & More at AAM by Steve Parks
- “Little Women”: A Chat with the Garfield’s Play Director Hester Sachse
- Spy Concert Review: An Orchestral ‘Holiday Joy’ by Steve Parks
- CBMM Becomes More Welcoming: Celebrating a New Welcome Center in St. Michaels
- Delmarva Review Announces 2024 Anthology
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the Masters: Sliman Mansour
Sliman Mansour was born in 1947 in Birzeit, a small village north of Ramallah. He is an internationally recognized Palestinian artist. He studied art ... [Continue Story]
- Looking at the Masters: Birds’ Head Haggadah
- Looking at the Masters: Daisies and Beavers
- Looking at the Masters: Edward Hicks
- Looking at the Masters: Charles Willson Peale
- Looking at the Masters: The Last Supper
- Looking at the Masters: Daffodil and Falcon
- Looking at the Masters: Rachael Breen
- Looking at the Masters: De Claris Mulieribus
- Looking at the Masters: Edward Mitchell Bannister
- Looking at the Masters: Violets and Wolves
Design with Jenn Martella
My first introduction to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was during a visit to my sister over the July 4th weekend in 2003. We joined the throng ... [Continue Story]
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Visit to Wings and Whitetail Farm
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Classic Cape Cod Cottage in Chestertown
- Design with Jenn Martella: 105 Cannon St. After the Work is Done
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Study in Scarlet
- Design with Jenn Martella: Modern Meets Rancher
- Design with Jenn Martella: Haven on High Street
Weather Report with Cece Storm
The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 30 to October 1 “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all ... [Continue Story]
Delmarva Review
Delmarva Review: Unyielding Love by Catherine DeNunzio
Author’s Note: When my parents were dying and thereafter, the poems I read about loss used particular metaphors, and columns about mental health ... [Continue Story]
- Delmarva Review: Helen to Euripides by Christopher Honey
- Delmarva Review: Time The Teacher by Julian Koslow
- Delmarva Review: Movies and Moving by Mia Mazzeo
- Delmarva Review: Day Before Easter by Mercedes Lawry
- Delmarva Review: Art by Robert Stone
- Delmarva Review: Fisherman Blues by Sara Atwater
- Delmarva Review: The Life of Secrets by Susan Okie
- Delmarva Review: Gold Digger by Leslie Pietrzyk
- Delmarva Review: Ghost Blankets by Susan Bucci Mockler
- Delmarva Review: 14 Inches of Snow by Madeleine Cohen Oakley
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: Sheila at Rest by Michelle Harding O’Brien
Chesapeake Bay workboats deserve a day off every once in a while! “”Sheila at Rest” by Michelle ... [Continue Story]
Arts Notes
Marcy Dunn Ramsey Annual Exhibition Opens May 10 at MassoniArt
Marcy Dunn Ramsey Annual Exhibition "Transitions" will open with a champagne reception from 5:30 -7 pm May 10 at MassoniArts at xx High Street in ... [Continue Story]
- Carpe Diem Arts Alive! Brookletts Lunchtime Series Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month and Mother’s Day
- Chesapeake Film Festival: Celebrating Independent Cinema in Historic Easton and Chestertown, Maryland
- Win a Renowned Paul Reed Smith Guitar at Chestertown RiverArts
- Bookplate Author Event: The Crocodile Bride by Ashleigh Bell Pedersen May 22
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Chestertown Presents Organ Recital by Ken Cowan
- Zebra Gallery Features New Artists
- CORRECTION: The Art of Storytelling: Panel Discussion and Workshop with Filmmakers at the Talbot County Free Library is now on Sunday, September 29, at 10:30 a.m.
- The Secret Life of Adkins, Photographs by Kellen McCluskey, on View through June 29 at Adkins Arboretum
- 8th Annual Art of the Garden opens at The Trippe Gallery
- Mikey Junior Blues Band at The Mainstay May 17