UP to SPEED
NEWS and SPECIALOFFERS from AMTRAK
service. Valid for sale through
Oct. 28, 2008, and valid for travel
through Oct. 31, 2008. Request
discount code V209 when you
book by calling 800-USA-RAIL. See
page 86 for blackout dates and
other restrictions.
MARYLAND
Back to Camelot: Film
actor and Tony Award-nominee Lou Diamond
Phillips stars as King Arthur
in the national tour of
Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot
at Baltimore’s Hippodrome
Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing
Arts Center, March 25–
April 6. Season tickets
are on sale at the box office,
online at broadwayacross
america.com/Baltimore or
by phone 800-551-SEAT or
410-547-SEAT.
Purple reign: The first
North American touring
production of the Broadway
smash The Color Purple, The
Musical about Love, nominat-
ed for 11 Tony Awards and
produced by Oprah Winfrey,
takes over Baltimore for a
24-performance run
April 29–May 18. Tickets are
on sale at the Hippodrome
box office, Ticketmaster
outlets, by phone 410-547-
SEAT and 800-551-SEAT,
and online at broadwayacross
america.com/Baltimore.
Film fest: Ten years
strong and still growing,
the Maryland Film Festival
offers unique opportunities
to interact with filmmak-ers and an array of films,
with plenty to please both
the casual filmgoer and
the hardcore cinephile.
Situated in Baltimore’s arts
and entertainment district,
the festival’s anchor venue
is the five-screen Charles
Theatre, one block north
of Penn Station (with
many other venues also in
proximity). Fifty feature
films and 100 shorts from all
over the world, plus Q & A
sessions with the filmmak-
ers, panel discussions, and
a film selected by local indy
pioneer John Waters.
May 1-4. mdfilmfest.com.
Come sail away: The Bay
Bridge Boat Show is the
oldest and largest in-water
spring boat show on Chesapeake Bay, featuring over
500 yachts, inflatables and
runabouts. You’ll find a boat
for every need to fit every
budget. A wide variety of
marine accessories, services
and equipment will also
be on display. April 24-27.
usboat.com.
For the Maryland events,
save 50 percent off the
best available rail fare for one
companion traveling in coach
with a paid regular (full) adult rail
fare ticket on Amtrak travel to
Annapolis, MD (BWI Airport Rail
Station), or Baltimore, MD. Valid for
sale through Dec. 10, 2008, and
for travel through Dec. 13, 2008.
Request discount code V722
(Annapolis) or V828 (Baltimore)
when you book by calling 800-
USA-RAIL. Visit visitannapolis.
org/visitors for transportation
options. See page 86 for blackout
dates and other restrictions.
RHODE ISLAND
Sister cities: Newport
plays host to some of the
most talented chefs of the
Emerald Isle during the 9th
Annual Kinsale, Ireland
A century of Frida Kahlo at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Festival of Fine Food, an
international culinary
extravaganza. Kinsale is a
picturesque port community known as the “gourmet
capital of Ireland.” The
culinary festival kicks off
Newport’s annual Irish
Heritage Month, which features an exciting calendar
of events, including an Irish
coffee contest, a Jameson
Irish Whiskey tasting, lectures and more. March 6-9.
gone wport.com.
Send in the clowns:
The two-hour, 52nd Annual
Newport St. Patrick’s Day
Parade on March 15 begins at
11 a.m., marching along from
Newport City Hall to Carroll
Avenue at Saint Augustin’s
Church in the heart of the
Fifth Ward. The parade
features 10 pipe bands, 11
marching bands, five fife
& drum corps, five clown
units, five reenactment
units and a host of local,
state and regional organiza-
tions. gonewport.com.
Save 20 percent off the
best available regular (full)
adult rail fare for coach travel to
Westerly, Kingston or Providence,
R.I., on reserved regional trains
(Boston/Springfield, Mass.–
Washington, D.C.). Valid for sale
through Dec. 9, 2008, for travel
through Dec. 12, 2008. Restrictions
and blackout dates may apply.
Request discount code V731
when you book by calling 800-
USA-RAIL. See page 86 for blackout dates and other restrictions.
PENNSYLVANIA
Frida at 100: A touring
exhibit devoted to the art of
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
(1907-54) is on view at the
Philadelphia Museum of
Art. Celebrating the 100th
anniversary of Kahlo’s birth,
the exhibit boasts 50 paintings from the beginning of
her career in 1926 to her
death, in the first major presentation of her work in the
United States in nearly 15
years. Painted in vivid colors
and rendered in great detail,
her figurative and fantastical paintings are filled with
complex symbolism. In her
remarkably varied, often
iconic, self-portraits, Kahlo
continually reinvented
herself. The exhibit also
includes a selection of photographs of Kahlo and her
husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, by Gisele
Freund, Tina Modotti and
Nickolas Muray. Through
May 18. philamuseum.org.
Remember the
Force: “Star Wars:
Where Science Meets
Imagination” brings to life
the fantasy world of the Star
Wars films, exploring the
science behind them, and
how it could one day be
reality. See Luke’s original
Landspeeder from Episode
IV, go inside a full-size
replica of the cockpit of the
Millennium Falcon, meet
