Indie rock stalwarts Deerhunter have created a “science fiction album about the present,” and I am here for it.

Due out Jan. 18 on 4AD, “Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?” will be the band’s eighth album and first since 2015’s “Fading Frontier.”

The Arch Social Club, one of the oldest continually operating African-American men’s clubs in the country, was today named one of 11 Main Street sites to receive a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Baltimore sure does know how to do Halloween. From the Maryland Science Center’s annual Believe in Music Halloween party to the alleys of Patterson Park’s “Little Dublin” enclave, where revelers were treated to fireworks and a two house-long replica of the Hollywood sign, there was no shortage of creative costumes. But, white dudes, please stop wearing sombreros. Thanks.

Attendees packed the Maryland Science Center for performances by Dan Deacon, Wume, Blacksage, J. Pope and the HearNow, and many more. Check out our photos from the Believe in Music Halloween Party and Little Dublin’s Dead Hollywood party.

By Simone Ellin

As Baltimore Jewry joined other communities around the nation and world in mourning the tragic murders of 11 worshipers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Oct. 27, Jmore spoke with Howard Libit, executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, about security measures being taken in our own Jewish community.

The special request video archivist Siobhan Hagan received was a tall order.

In January, someone reached out to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive, Hagan’s film-preserving nonprofit, searching for footage of their grandfather, who’d worked at one of the estates of famed literary couple F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The duo, who lived in Baltimore for five years during the 1930s, were the subjects of the posthumous biographical documentary “Marked for Glory,” produced and screened by WJZ-TV in 1963.

As the inheritor of the station’s archives, MARMIA might have the record somewhere. Hagan knew about the documentary but had never seen it herself, as copies are rare and far-flung. She sent a volunteer in to dig around.

They never did find footage of the requester’s grandfather, Hagan said, but in March, after about 30 minutes of searching, her volunteer did locate a curious, lone canister of nitrate film, an early (not to mention dangerously combustible) medium not in mass use since the 1940s.

“Return to Mrs. Lanahan Scott Fitzgerald,” read a label on the can, an apparent reference to Scott and Zelda’s daughter Frances Scott, known also as “Scottie.” Scottie Fitzgerald’s first husband was named Jack Lanahan. Also inside: a paper referencing B-roll (supplemental footage without sound) scenes, and both Zelda and Scott by name.

As a member of the Baltimore band Horse Lords, saxophonist and composer Andrew Bernstein hopes to bridge the gap between the experimental and approachable.