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May 8, 2025

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Spy Music Notes: A Chat with AAM/WHCP Headliner Josh Christina

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Think of a mix between Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, and Elton John and you’ve got Josh Christina. If you’re a fan of piano driven rock ‘n’ roll,  Josh will restore your confidence in the ability of young musicians to carry on the great tradition of the rock pioneers. He writes his own music, refurbishes the classics, and plays a mean piano.  He’s also known for creating legendary live performances with his band.

Before the sold-out January 21 performance at the Academy Art Museum (with WHCP Community Radio serving as c0-host) Josh zoomed with the Spy’s Cecile Storm for a quick chat. The good news is that Josh will be returning to Cambridge on May 25th.

This video is approximately three minutes in length. For information about his Cambridge performance please go here.

 

 

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The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm

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The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for October 7-9

Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

How calmly does the olive branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair

Some time while light obscures the tree
The zenith of its life will be
Gone past forever
And from thence
A second history will commence

A chronicle no longer gold
A bargaining with mist and mold
And finally the broken stem
The plummeting to earth, and then

An intercourse not well designed
For beings of a golden kind
Whose native green must arch above
The earth’s obscene corrupting love

And still the ripe fruit and the branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair

Oh courage! Could you not as well
Select a second place to dwell
Not only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me?

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The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm

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The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 30 to October 1

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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CFF Honors Father and Daughter: William Wyler’s Daughter Catherine Chats with the Spy

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Once again, the Chesapeake Film Festival has pulled off a big one as it prepares for its annual gathering in Easton starting next week. 

For many years, the CFF has brought to Easton some of the most esteemed actors and directors from Hollywood and Beyond. And this year, that tradition continues when the film festival hosts independent film producer Catherine Wyler and her highly praised documentary on Sunday by her film director father, William. Catherine produced the film she will present and discuss at the Chesapeake Film Festival.

Directed by William Wyler explores her father’s life and career as one of Hollywood’s most accomplished directors, with three Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. He held a record of twelve nominations from the Academy for Best Director.

It will be shown at the newly restored Ebenezer Theater in Easton as well as her father’s classic Roman Holiday, a film Wyler directed in 1953 that propelled the unknown Audrey Hepburn to stardom. The film, also starring Gregory Peck, is the light-hearted story of a princess who secretly leaves her country’s embassy in Rome for some “me” time. She ends up falling asleep on a bench and is discovered by an American reporter, played by Peck, who takes her on a free-spirited tour of Rome.

The Spy’s Cecile Storm spent a few moments with Catherine via Zoom last week to discuss her documentary and her father’s legacy.

This video is approximately two minutes in length.

Tickets for Sunday, Oct. 2 are $25. This covers both films and the presentation and Q&A with Catherine Wyler. VIP tickets for $125 admit one person to the VIP reception on Friday, Sept. 30, and all screenings in the LIVE Festival Sept. 30 through Oct. 2.

The Wyler program is the last event of the LIVE Chesapeake Film Festival. Beginning Monday, Oct. 3, the Festival becomes VIRTUAL and FREE! For a list of all 48 films in the VIRTUAL Chesapeake Film Festival visit chesapeakefilmfestival.com for ticket information .

 

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The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm

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The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 16 to September 18

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

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Saying Farewell to the Dove

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For almost three years, the Maryland Dove has been very much a part of our Mid-Shore life. Beginning in 2019, when the Spy first began coverage of this remarkable reconstruction project of one of two ships that brought the first English settlers to what is now called the state of Maryland, the Dove project at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has captivated locals and visitors alike as the 84-foot vessel came to life.

During this three-year love affair, The CBMM leadership went out of their way to remind the community that the Dove would one day actually leave St. Michaels and eventually dock at the state’s Historic St. Mary’s, which commissioned the replica and its permanent owner. But that didn’t stop a collective sense that the new Dove would always be intertwined with the Mid-Shore. Nonetheless, reality set in a few weeks ago when the Dove finally crossed the Chesapeake Bay and sailed into its new home.

The Spy was one of those that found it hard to say goodbye after several feature stories on the Dove’s historical significance and the mastery of the CBMM shipwrights. And our solution was to send Spy agent Cecile Storm on the final practice runs with Maryland Dove’s Captain Will Gates.

This video is approximately five minutes in length. For more information about the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum please go here.  For Historic St. Mary’s please go here. 

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The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm

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The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 9 to September 11

September by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days
Gleaned by the year in autumn’s harvest ways,
With here and there, blood-tinted as an ember,
Some crimson poppy of a late delight
Atoning in its splendor for the flight
Of summer blooms and joys­
This is September.

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The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm

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The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 2 to September 4

Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.”

written by Nora and Delia Ephron

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Mid-Shore Food and Drink: Blue Ruin’s Speakeasy Speaks Loud and Clear

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Blue Ruin is a modern take on a vintage speakeasy. With over 150 unique cocktails made from the finest (and often local) spirits, pared with a down-home-fine-dining fusion menu. The kitchen takes Eastern Shore classics and elevates them to white tablecloth status.

Customers may be surprised they don’t have to give a password to get in, and once their in good times are guaranteed.

This video is approximately three minutes in length. For more information about Blue Ruin please go here.

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The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm

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The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for August 26 to August 28

A Cup of Ocean by Amos Russel Wells

What does the cup of ocean hold?
Glory of purple and glint of gold;
Tenderest greens and heavenly blue,
Shot with the sunlight through and through;
Wayward ripples that idly roam.
Tumbling breakers with gallant foam;
Sands and pebbles that chase and slide;
Mystic currents that softly glide;
Mighty spell of the ages old,
This does the cup of ocean hold.

What does the cup of ocean hear
To the lips of land folk everywhere?
Danger’s ominous, ghostly breath,
Battered forms of an awful death;
Howling tempests and bitter sleet,
Crash of the sea steeds’ terrible feet;
Ships a-quiver with fearful shock,
Anguish heaped on a savage rock;
Loss and turmoil and fatal snare,
This does the cup of ocean bear.

Look ye well to the ocean’s cup,
Ye who gladly on beauty sup.
Tarry long at the treacherous brink,
Gaze within e’er ye bend and drink.

 

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