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'Seconds' anyone?

The lowdown // The viola may be the Rodney Dangerfield of instruments - there are zillions of viola jokes floating around, showing no respect whatsoever - but it's really a beautiful and soulful music-making object, especially in the hands of a sensitive musician such as Peter Minkler. Minkler, acting assistant principal violist for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, will play works by Bach, Stravinsky and others featured on his recently released CD, Viola Seul: Works for unaccompanied viola (Centaur Records). With pianist Lura Johnson, Minkler will also perform the Sonata for Viola and Piano by George Rochberg.

An artist on the brink

"Now what?" the kid on stage is asking, the likable, scruffy kid with the soft, round beginnings of a paunch.

'The Wire' opens final season on home turf

Cast and crew of HBO drama take over the Senator Theatre

Buchheit takes over city Heritage Area

Jeffrey Buchheit, a former assistant director of the American Association of Museums, has begun work as director of the Baltimore City Heritage Area, an arm of the mayor's office that promotes the city's cultural heritage.

Sunny Italy to shine again

A book, a film and now a play show changes in four women

'Beauty and Beast' teaches lessons of life

In musical, youngsters use talent to show good

QuestFest takes theater into a new dimension

As a college student in the early '80s, Anne Cantler Fulwiler saw a couple of Dario Fo plays in London.

Art 'walk' proves to be a road to dispute

The other pieces of art celebrate, while this one challenges. The rest are by professional artists, but this one is largely by children. That the piece in question is the African-American contribution to a public art project meant to commemorate Annapolis' 300th anniversary makes this a particularly high-pitched dispute, even by the standards of public art disputes.

Cross-country quilting for a cure

Traveling art exhibit and charity auction raise funds for Alzheimer's disease research Mary Matton was so touched by the traveling exhibit of 52 art quilts interpreting Alzheimer's disease that she decided she wanted to help.

Train station is on track to preservation

Panel seeks to shield President Street site from demolition, vast changes President Street Station in Baltimore is the oldest surviving big city railroad terminal in the United States. The property was a stop on the Underground Railroad used by slaves fleeing from the South. The building played a key role in the first fatalities of the Civil War. It's also sitting vacant in an area of intense commercial development on Baltimore's waterfront.