What you need to know in arts and culture news this week.

A town the size of Frederick inherently won’t have as many street photographers as a bigger city like Baltimore or D.C., but a few crop up at festivals — Alive@Five, In The Streets — and have become familiar faces to one another and to downtown residents and regulars.

Frederick born, LA-based performing artist Sonny Apollo has advanced to the Top 20 of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “America’s Next Top Hitmaker” 2024 competition.

Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon and his band The Chicago Way are on tour to promote his third Alligator Records release, “Shut Up & Play!,” with a live performance at 8 p.m. July 25 at Hub City Vinyl in Hagerstown.

Women Solve secured a $20,000 grant from the Ausherman Family Foundation, with an additional $8,000 available through a matching funds challenge. This grant supported Frederick’s Seed to Roots: Broadway Horizons trip, an opportunity for Frederick City and County students to experience the ar…

For comic-book collectors, original art fanatics or even a creator, Heroes Con’s annual gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, could conceivably be among the best comic-book conventions in the U.S.

Relive the magic of “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial” on the big screen accompanied by a live performance by the Shippensburg Festival Symphony Orchestra on July 20 at Luhrs Performing Arts Center, 475 Lancaster Drive, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

A first glance at this year’s Contemporary American Theater Festival lineup could leave one feeling somewhere between baffled and offended. The mere idea that a show about a Holocaust survivor could be called “The Happiest Man on Earth” would strike most people as jarring — and that goes dou…

Apple TV+ this week will debut “Lady in the Lake,” a TV series based on a bestselling novel by Baltimore author Laura Lippman that was filmed in and around Charm City.

New films and series to stream this week.

Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels.

Thomas Dambo was rummaging through a city dump in Minnesota when he stumbled on perfection: large yellow plastic bins that had been tossed by a tool manufacturing company.

At Trump Tower in August 2021, journalist Ramin Setoodeh was listening to Donald Trump natter on about how much he had helped the late comedian Joan Rivers. Suddenly, pointing to his office, Trump announced, “I have to get back up because, you know, I’m doing the whole thing with the Afghanistan.”

What you need to know in arts and culture news this week.

Recent and upcoming beer and spirits releases in Frederick County and beyond.

Find out where all your favorite food trucks will be parked this week.

Bookstore owners Marlene and Tom England launched WordPlay Connects in 2022, a nonprofit that advocates for Appalachian youth to receive easier access to literary resources.

Like a lot of people I’ve become friends with, I met Geraldine Lloyd when I interviewed her for a 72 Hours story.

Growing up in Frederick, Anna J. Stamato took to music at an early age, writing poems before she was a teenager and picking up a guitar before she was old enough to take a driver’s test. These days, she’s grown into a full-time musician, recently seeing her single “Nobody with Nobody” reach …

Long time ago, poet and artist William Blake noted that “unmixed attention is prayer.” I’d add that no good poetry is written with mixed, or distracted, attention. For me, though, there is more DNA between the two than a kind of mindfulness.

“America’s Got Talent” winner and Las Vegas headliner Terry Fator will perform his “Terry Fator: On The Road Again” show at the Weinberg Center in Frederick at 7:30 p.m. July 12.