Community artist Beth Barbush hands her life-story over to her friends; Matthew Bowden discusses his film, “Spare Rooms”; and Ray Loomis demonstrates the mechanical marvels of the Linotype.
Ever wish you could do something to bump yourself out of the rut of your daily routine? That’s how Beth Barbush was feeling. But unlike most of us, she decided she was going to do something about it – something big. Producer Aaron Henkin brings us the story of one very trusting woman’s yearlong leap of faith, a project she calls Living Chapters.
"The key to a good lie is in its detail." That’s a line from Spare Rooms, a new film by Baltimore-based writer and director Mathew Bowden. The film tells a “family fiction” that closely resembles Bowden’s own childhood - growing up in a rural, same-sex household in the nineteen-eighties. Bowden and film producer Joe Tropea speak to The Signal’s Lisa Morgan about the making of the movie.
Ray Loomis says he can read upside down and backwards just as fast as he can read the normal way. That’s because he’s spent most of his life operating a late nineteenth-century marvel of engineering: the linotype machine. Aaron Henkin pays Mr. Loomis a visit at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
