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Been a Long Time: Lez Zeppelin was formed in 2004 and has played the songs of Plant, Page, Bonham and Jones throughout the world. (Left to right) Lead singer Marlain Angelides, guitarist Steph Paynes, drummer Leesa Harrington-Squyres, and bassist Joan Chew. (Provided Photo)
Jmore caught up with Steph Paynes, founder and lead guitarist of Lez Zeppelin, the only all-female quartet to pay homage to Led Zeppelin, ahead of the band’s Feb. 17 concert at the Gordon Center.
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In a 2008 Baltimore Sun profile, Lonnie Shorr said, "I was always the class clown." (Photo courtesy of Sol Levinson & Bros.)
Shorr, who grew up in Reservoir Hill and attended City College, was a familiar face on TV programs and game shows in the late 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
Read MoreThe recent passing of WCBM’s Dave Humphrey reminds Michael Olesker of AM radio’s glory days in Baltimore.
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You Learn: Catholic-raised Alanis Morissette discovered she was Jewish in her late 20s. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
The Canadian-Jewish singer learned about her family’s hidden Holocaust past on the recent season opener of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots.”
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The cast of "The Gospel According to Chaim": (from left to right) Mikhl Yashinsky, Melissa Weisz, Sruli Rosenberg and Joshua Horowitz (Tatiana Stolpovskaya, provided by the New Yiddish Rep)
“The Gospel According to Chaim” is based on the life of Baltimore Christian missionary Henry Einspruch and will be performed through Jan. 7 at Theater for the New City in Manhattan.
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Hitting a Sour Notes Bradley Cooper portrays Leonard Bernstein in the new film "Maestro." (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images, via JTA)
Bradley Cooper’s new film treatment of the life of conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein drops the baton, writes Michael Olesker.
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The Pikesville Community Mural will be featured on a prominent sidewall of Zips Cleaners, at 1220 Reisterstown Road in the heart of "downtown" Pikesville. (Staff photo)
Civic leaders hope the Northwest Baltimore suburb’s first publicly funded mural, on a sidewall of Zips Cleaners in the “Main Street” corridor, will be completed by May 30, 2024.
Read MoreHave you seen “Making Her Mark” at the Baltimore Museum of Art yet? The exhibition explores the vast artistic achievements of women artists and artisans in Europe from 1400-1800.
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The embroidery-on-linen collage "My Childhood Home" was created by Esther Nisenthal Krinitz in 1977. (Collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade)
Originally scheduled to close in February of 2024, the exhibition of works by the late Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz will run for at least another year.
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Juliette Feld Grossman: “At the end of the day, people come to live entertainment because they want to be connected to other people.” (Provided photo)
With the circus returning to Baltimore in late November, Jmore catches up with Juliette Feld Grossman of Feld Entertainment.
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Swell Ariel Or, the Tel Aviv-born star of "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem," moved to Los Angeles a week-and-a-half before the Oct. 7 Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel. (Light Years Ahead/Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)
The latest movie featuring the young Israeli actress is “Kissufim,” about a real kibbutz near the Gaza Strip where eight people were murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.
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