Creative Alliance

With singer out, Secret Mountains' future uncertain

2013-04-12 09:39:00

When Secret Mountains released its long-awaited first album, "Rainer," in February, the band seemed poised to make a leap to higher prominince in the indie music world. The shoegazed-inspired Baltimore sextet had already garnered positive write-ups from...

Victoria Vox's brand new 'Key'

2013-04-02 12:42:00

Seated at a downtown coffee shop last week, Victoria Vox quickly noticed the table was wobbly and uneven. Rather than ignore the minor nuisance, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter took the newspaper she walked in with, folded up a few pages and stuck...

Baltimore storyteller Jon Spelman makes debut performance of 'Prostate Dialogues'

2013-03-15 14:56:00

After Jon Spelman got the bad news, he found himself thinking often and at odd moments about "Moby-Dick." Perhaps that's because the behemoth that was attacking the Baltimore storyteller was as submerged, unreasoning and unpredictable as any great white...

Creative Alliance takes over its own cafe space

2013-02-15 10:45:00

The Creative Alliance will take over the cafe operations at the Patterson, the cultural organization's Highlandtown home. The cafe, which opened last May as Clementine at the Creative Alliance, was operated by the owners of Clementine on Harford Road....

All shook up for Elvis' Fight Club

2013-01-08 14:57:00

Elvis will not be leaving the building Saturday. Nor will any of the other contestants in Elvis' Birthday Fight Club, a combination battle-to-the-finish boxing grudge match and burlesque show where past champions have included a chicken and a vibrating...

A year-round present from the arts

2012-12-24 03:00:00

In a holiday season that celebrates giving, Maryland's nonprofit arts organizations have been playing their part. Not only do they inspire and enrich our lives in innumerable ways large and small, they're also an important source of economic vitality...

at the Patterson got a two-fer - the opening of "Wonderland," an exhibition of photographs taken by J.M.Giordano, followed by an onstage preview of Creative Alliance's big shindig, the Marquee Ball. This year, the ball's theme is "Kiss Me Deadly.

2013-02-06 00:00:00

A skit representing Stephen Hawking and NPR host Diane Rehm takes on an interesting twist during Elvis' Birthday Fight Club at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson.

2013-01-13 13:21:00

Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey perform a skit in their holiday burlesque show at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson.

2012-12-22 00:00:00