With so many art galleries featuring recent graduate shows, we couldn’t resist scouring the walls for a few of our choice picks. Today we begin a brief series featuring local artists who look prepared to make some strong waves in the art world. Growing up in Annapolis, Maryland, Brian Twilley was always pulled towards the visual arts and, particularly, photography. “Miserable” as a business major, he quickly switched to fine arts and never looked back….

Remember a few years back, when then Attorney General John Ashcroft introduced the TIPS program? You know, the nationwide law enforcement initiative technically known as the Terrorist Information and Prevention System, whose stated purpose was to recruit “American workers who, in the daily course of their work, are in a unique position to see potentially unusual or suspicious activity in public places.” Remember the willies some of us may have gotten at the prospects of…