THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY March 14, 2006 17 Arts & Entertainment Events Happening Throughout the Greater Baltimore-Washington Area Incidentally... Events Happening On and Around the UMBC Campus Beginning [March 14] aroundtown explore the relationship between e-fields, Beginning [March 14] Get ahead of the game memory, objects and affect. 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 215 Fine Arts Building on Wednesday, The UMBC ADVANCE Program March 15. Admission is free. For more presents, Getting to Yes: Effective information call 410-455-3190. Movin’ on, movin’ on up Grantwriting Strategies, as a part of the Roadside Lures that aren’t creepy old Faculty ADVANCEment Workshop Series. Well, I guess it depends on who you Told through the choreography of hitchhikers. I hope. Please join us Tuesday, March 14, 2006 from ask Twyla Tharp and more than two dozen 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. in the University Center, of Billy Joel’s hit songs, new Hippodrome Looking at an oil painting by Room 312 to learn tips and strategies for Join the Student Events Board and production Movin’ Out is the story of Charlene Rene Clark is like peeking into improving grantwriting techniques from the Cultural Center for this week’s UMBC lifelong friends through two turbulent the melancholy side of historic Maryland. Dr. Phil Farabaugh and Dr. Janet Rutledge. Talks discussion: Can Men be Feminists? decades that change them and the world Viewers are easily transfixed by images of Lunch will be provided so please be sure This discussion will involve a conversation around them forever. Songs like “It’s the now-deserted Enchanted Forest or the to RSVP to [email protected]. Contact about the involvement of members of Still Rock and Roll to Me,” “We Didn’t squeaky Ocean City boardwalk ferris wheel, Sarah Conolly Hokenmaier, ADVANCE privileged groups in social movements of Start the Fire,” and “Pressure” all come spinning them back to their childhoods Program Coordinator at hokenmas@umbc. underprivileged groups (i.e. men in the together to weave a musical backdrop when days were longer and Charm City edu or 5-8169 with any questions. women’s movement, whites in the civil rights which beautifully complements Tharp’s more charming... and preserved. Much of movement, and so forth). This discussion innovative choreography. The songs and Clark’s subject matter, including the One will be held in the Cultural Center from 12 dance take audiences through a poignant Spot Flea Killer store, has been demolished Charlize Theron does it again, and p.m. -1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15th. narrative comprised of three main elements: of late. See her interpretations at the thank god it’s not Aeon Flux post-World War II idealism, the Vietnam American Institute of Architects Baltimore War and its subsequent unrest, and finally, Gallery’s new exhibit, Roadside Lures. For In celebration of Women’s History Ida know why you’d want to miss survival. For more information, please visit more information, please visit www.aia. Month, join the Student Events Board for this www.france-merrickpac.com/home.html. org. the second film and discussion of the Spring Cinema Series: North Country. This event Gertrude Stein’s Ida; a novel, will be will take place in the Skylight Room on read, narrated and performed by Wendy I done saw it at Ram’s Head Live Hello Gorgeous! Tuesday, March 14 from 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. Salkind, with a sound score composed by North Country is a fictionalized account of Linda Dusman. 8 p.m. on March 15 and The Saw Doctors broke into the The Jewish Museum of Maryland’s the first major successful sexual harassment 16, UMBC Theatre. Admission is free. For mainstream when they were invited by fabulous new exhibition illuminates and case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth more information, call 410-455-2917 or Mike Scott to be the opening act on the decodes cultural definitions of beauty Mines, where a woman who endured a range visit www.umbc.edu/arts. Waterboys’ 1988 tour of Ireland and the in America, showing how Jews adapted, of abuse while working as a miner filed and United Kingdom. In the decade since, ignored, overcame and reshaped ideals. won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. To learn the Saw Doctors have emerged as the Highlighting the Museum’s collection more, visit www.umbc.edu/seb or email Sound, color, and... lecturing? most successful Irish rock band since of vintage clothing and accessories, the Eric Grollman at [email protected]. U2. The Washington Post referred to exhibit examines the construction of The Center for Art and Visual Culture the Saw Doctors as “one of the world’s Jewish identity through appearance, and presents a lecture by Stephen Vitiello, a most appealing roots-rock outfits.” They the Jewish impact on American glamour Come over to the dark side sound and media artist. In his work, he is are currently out promoting their latest through garment manufacturing, retail, particularly interested in the physical aspect album, The Cure, which will be on sale the beauty industry, and popular culture. It’s Corporate Visibility Day with the of sound and its potential to define the form in the US in February 2006. See them at The exhibition runs through April 30; National Security Agency on Wednesday, and atmosphere of a spatial environment. Ram’s Head Live on March 14. For more hours are 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 15 Lloyd St., March 15! Come for the employment and 7 p.m., Lecture Hall 7 (ITE Building) on information, please visit www.ramsheadlive. Baltimore, MD. For more information, networking opportunities, targeted career Thursday, March 16. For more information, com/baltimorelive/. please visit www.jewishmuseummd.org. skill information, free food, and give-aways! call 410-455-3188. Come and go as you need to; bring your resume! More information in the Career I wonder, does he do commissions Race, Class, Gender, Character Services Center: x5-22116, careers@umbc. Someone tell Joaquin Phoenix to of Elvis? edu, www.careers.umbc.edu. please wash his hair The American Visionary Art Tony Shore is a native of Baltimore, Museum’s new exhibit explores how This week’s SEB Weekly Movie is Walk Maryland. As an undergraduate, he race, class and gender do not define one’s URBANtells you to go to this the Line, a chronicle of the career of Johnny attended the Maryland Institute College character. Sit in the throne created by Mr. presentation Cash. Showings at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. on of Art. He earned his graduate degree Imagination; transform yourself into six Wednesday and Thursday for $2. Showing in painting from Yale University. Tony’s different races via Nancy Burson’s “Human The Visiting Artist Lecture Series at 8 p.m. on Saturday for $1, but for $2 you black velvet paintings have been exhibited Race Machine”; see the delicate paperwork presents James Rouvelle, whose current can go to the Game Room afterwards for all over the East Coast. After living in of Ku Shu-Lan; and more. The exhibition interests include experimental practices pizza and pool! New York for a time, he moved back to runs through Sept. 3; hours are 10 a.m. to and forms, peer-to-peer networks of hybrid Baltimore City, where he founded Access 6 p.m. at 800 Key Highway, Baltimore, media and data, collaboration and micro- Art Inc., a nonprofit youth arts program MD. For more information, please visit electronics. Current projects include in West Baltimore. He currently teaches at www.avam.org. URBANtells, a collaborative work that the Maryland Institute College of Art. See creates an open network of individual AM his work at the C. Grimaldis Gallery now! transmitters tuned to the same frequency, For more information, please visit www. and Fringe Science, an installation of cgrimaldisgallery.com/. working and participatory experiments that