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October 21, 2010 | Issue 40
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Station North Fall Music Festival 2010
When Kaki King picks up a guitar, lots of things start to happen that you wouldn’t expect. The sky becomes clearer, birds start singing, babies stop crying and The Rent Is Too Damn High Party sends Jimmy McMillan to the Governor’s Mansion. That’s the only way to describe the power of her performance.
Photo by Philip Laubner.
This isn’t politics as usual, people. This is What Weekly.
Help us get The Baltimore Love Mural in Waverly!!!
The creation of public art and murals in Baltimore is essential. Show your support for the mural and the proposed location on the north (32nd Street) white wall of the Greenmount Avenue Rite Aid.
Vote Now!!!
Email Mary Pat Clarke (subject line: MURAL) Marypat.clarke@baltimorecity.gov
Include:
1. Your Name and Address
2. Vote YES or NO to THE MURAL ITSELF
3. Vote YES or NO to the RITE AID LOCATION
Deadline for VOTING: Friday, October 29, 5:00 pm
The Baltimore Love Project expresses love by connecting people and communities across Baltimore City through love themed murals.
A few years ago, local artist Michael Owen, developed a design of four hands spelling out the word love. Now this image will be painted on 20 walls, spread evenly across the communities within Baltimore City.
For more information, go to www.baltimoreloveproject.com
Promote your event: Email charmcity@whatweekly.com
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Station North Fall Music Festival
Holy Ghost Tent Revival kicked off the day with an explosive performance that set the tone for what was to be the best neighborhood festival this writer has ever been to. What was even more amazing was the fact that right after they played their set they piled all their gear into the back of their tour van and sped off down the road bound for another festival in Virginia where they were set to play. You left us too soon Holy Ghost Tent Revival and we will be anxiously awaiting your return.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) is a coalition of diverse organizations and professionals working together to build sustainable peace and security worldwide.
Help build peace.
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What normally requires 35 band members to perform, Emily Wells can do with loop pedals and an arsenal of plastic pianos, violins, and many other random, unconventional instruments. If you are wondering what that sounds like I could only describe it as CocoRosie goin’ steady with Method Man while seeing Mozart on the side.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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Matt Murihead set up shop on the sidewalk with an array of paintings, drawings and one of a kind silk screened clothing adorned with neon colored skulls and abstractions most pleasing to the eye. If you missed seeing his work on the streets you can still find him at his gallery, HeadSpace on the Avenue in Hampden. The grand opening is the fifth of November. I’m not sure how you’ll be able to forgive yourself if you miss it.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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www.lot201.com
Original apparel designs by Julie Bent.
Call Julie for an appointment: 410.929.1183.
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Artist Brian Baker is one half of the creative force that is Soulforms. His artwork often depicts abstractions of spiritual symbols and deities painted in a style that seems to transcend time. Words alone cannot accurately describe the complexity and thought provocation in his work and pictures often fail to accurately depict the magnificence of his beard.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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As the sun began to set See-I charged the stage and brought the reggae, rock, and funk all at the same time. People were forced to tether themselves to light poles and trash cans for fear of being completely blown away. All such efforts eventually proved hopeless when soon everyone in attendance succumbed to the unavoidable awesomeness SeeI unleashes upon every crowd they meet.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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Since 1995, The Creative Alliance has promoted Baltimore as a dynamic center of art in all genres. With members ranging from artists and educators to neighbors and supports, the Creative Alliance cultivates community through collaboration.
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WW: Tell me a little bit about your inspiration for these paintings.
EB: My new pieces are evolving to be less a direct representation and more of a reflection on Baltimore and the realities of those living here. The new series is directly influenced and informed by my experiences working with student artists and community members in Baltimore City.
This body of work, particularly the “Innocence” series, serves several purposes for me. On one level, I needed a way to reflect on the things I’ve seen and the stories I’ve heard working with young people over the past few years. There are a multitude of challenges facing youth growing up in Baltimore and these paintings reflect a powerlessness and frustration I feel and recognize in some students.
WW: From your perspective, in what ways has this project impacted you and those around you?
EB: I wanted the chance to share information about the great people and organizations in our city working every day to make our schools and our city better. I wanted to use the work as a platform for the very real impact they make. People often simply don’t know how to get involved or how to choose an organization to help. I know firsthand the work that these organizations do and the people involved on the ground, so I wanted to connect the resources of art buyers and viewers to the people doing great work on our streets and in our communities and schools. I’d love to be a resource for those hoping to get more involved.
The exhibitions of Elizabeth Brady Urban Reflections & David Page Familiar / Peculiar will be on view through Saturday October 23 at Jordan Faye Contemporary.
The gallery is located at 1401 Light Street in Federal Hill. Gallery hours are Wed Thurs 12 7p / Fri & Sat 12 5p Mon & Tues by appt. www.jordanfayecontemporary.com
 
Click for more.
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Philip Laubner Opening: Evacuation Route
With the current influx of desktop wallpaper and Flickr albums we tend to get worn out rummaging through photos or seeing fluke amateur sunrise shots receive so many accolades.
It takes something truly striking for us to remember that photography’s purpose is not just to have a new default picture that our friends will “like.” Photography is art. It is the ability to capture the essence and feel of a moment. It’s a catalog of fleeting beauty. In Baltimore, we’re lucky enough to be reminded of this in the extraordinary work of Philip Laubner. Philip is an enigmatic and ebullient individual who inspires whoever is around with his passion and excitement.
With a style unique and inspiring on its own, his shots are a call back to where photography came from and where it can go. This ability to capture the feeling and emotion of an event was wonderfully displayed at Cyclops Thursday night in Philip’s shots of a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade and other photos he displayed from his portfolio.
Photo by Lauren Barnhart, story by Peter Cardamone.
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Storied Baltimore writer Rafael Alvarez made an appearance and shared a short story with the audience before introducing Philip Laubner. The many notable guests at the reception are a testament to the caliber of Philip’s photography and the sincerity that finds him friends where ever he lands.
Photo by Lauren Barnhart, story by Peter Cardamone.
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Books, Live Music, Art Gallery and more!
Same block as Windup Space, across from Joe Squared. Plenty of room inside for your bike; FREE street parking for your car (well plug your meter before 6, after that its free anyway) come on over…
30 West North Ave.
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Silent Whys performing an intimate acoustic set at the opening reception of Evacuation Route.
Drawing on influences from Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and the art that constantly surrounds him, Philip was able to take inspiring and creative shots of New Orleans that were both vivid and eye catching. You couldn’t walk around without being drawn into each photo. Philip also showed photos from the recent Station North Fall Music Festival, great images of musicians Kaki King, Emily Wells, and the McTell Brothers; each one displaying an attitude of their unique style in each shot. Throughout the night different artists and people came from all over to check out the show and support Philip’s work.
Photo by Theresa Keil, story by Peter Cardamone.
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Doreen Bolger, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, loved the show, the atmosphere that was created by the music and art, and the work that Philip is doing.
Philip got into photography out of necessity. He was working for an ad agency when the staff photographer had to leave due to the wreckage hurricane Katrina had caused his home and his life. Philip told the story of how he started his career as a photographer at the beginning of 2006. “My boss, Tim Weston, was from Texas and he was kind of a Maverick. He called anyone under the age of 60 “son.” So he asked me “Son, can you work a camera?” Philip explained that he’d only taken a few classes, but to his boss that was irrelevant. “Good, you got your first job tomorrow,” his boss informed him. Upon seeing Philip’s work more and more people started requesting him to shoot for them until eventually he became the new staff photographer at the agency.
Photo by Theresa Keil, story by Peter Cardamone.
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Locus of Evil
It’s that time of year for spooks, monsters, witches, and gore: the midterm elections. But in the meantime, we can relax with the new crop of Halloween scary movie releases.
The bizarre attack ads of this campaign season use the same techniques as the horror/ thriller movie trailers. Not sure if the same marketing people work on them, but if they don’t, they should. They could learn from each other, like this mashup from current movie trailers and campaign ads:
“He supported the stimulus. There are some crimes so horrific, that the only justice is revenge. The unmerciful, unapologetic, tax and spend liberal. Your flesh is his fantasy.”
While the real slashing, stabbing, and torture comes from the political ads, I still love the movies. This is not a review column people, but I offer a found poemfound wordforword in fall movie trailer copyto guide you through the high holy days of Halloween:
This October, in a quiet town
A demented surgeon will wield any instrument.
But that was just the beginning
His two best friends filmed the whole thing six years ago
During reentry over Mexico.
This is Megan Faccio
This fall, she will keep you close
And try to hold on to all of your pieces.
Whatever you do don’t save yourself
to witness the final cut.
Have you ever received a chain letter from the director of Cloverfield?
This October return to his swamp
This October the traps come alive
This October don’t inhale
October 8 is the day of the Woman. No Mercy…… keep going.
david warfield
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David Warfield, Confessions of a Mad Filmmaker
A What Weekly Column
“And so here we have a unique opportunity to track the production of a truly independent film from the moment of conception (the script is not yet completed) to the first public screening, and beyond. ”
Were not talking about EPK filler here, were talking about life, and its bound to get messy.”
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Eschatology II at Positron Gallery
Cheri Landry and Angie Toney, standing in front of sculptures Pure, Plank and Coils by Emil Alzamoa.
“Often in reference to the end of the world, the Oxford English Dictionary defines Eschatology as “concerned with ‘the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell’”. In Eschatology II, guest curator Cherí Landry invites you to explore this branch of theology through a selection of works by Emil Alzamora, Sasha Blanton, Jen Blazina, Jordan Eagles, Gwyneth Scally and Carlos Tarrats.” divergencefineart.com
Photo by Theresa Keil.
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Trai Dagucon and David Hilton in front of Fantasma, an installation by Jen Blazina.
Photo by Theresa Keil.
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Carl Stevens, taking in Jordan Eagles, LF7.
Photo by Theresa Keil.
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Check out the great work being done by the Baltimore Free Farm Collective. Theyre raising funds at Kickstarter to get their community center up and running. Follow the link for details.
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Caleb Stine in studio at WNRN performing Eyes So Strong and Clean.
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Kaki King will be performing this weekend at The Station North Fall Music Festival. Heres a preview.
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Friday, Oct 22
Arty Hill + Writers in the Round at Cyclops 8 pm
Who wants the honky tonks of Nashville to have all the fun when we have such great singersongwriters here in Maryland? Join us Friday night as Arty Hill makes his Cyclops debut and brings along some fantastic friends like Peter McKibben, who just played the WTMD First Thursday show with Hoots and Hellmouth.
Girdle Bound at Mobtown Theater 8 pm
Molly is an evolving Dominatrix finding her place in the fetish scene. Her mother Alice moves in with her. Alice is a recent widow left in debt. Alice wants out and into her own place but doesn’t have the skills or experience to land the kind of job that would allow her to do so. Molly, who wants her privacy back, tries to figure out a way to help each get what they want without destroying their relationship in the process. What’s a mother/daughter to do?
DJ Jason Willet at Club Pheonix 10 pm
Dance Dance Dance.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Saturday, Oct 23
The Black and White Show: Personal Digital Art? at the Mark Cottman 6 pm
Mark Cottman and the Mark Cottman Gallery presents “The Black and White Show: Personal digital Art.” New exhibition of digital drawings created on a Palm Pilot then transferred to canvas and watercolor paper some with companion poetry or short stories. Along with this work will be Mark Cottman’s book ‘Personal Digital Art: Capturing Fleeting Thought’, which features 70 of these stark black and white images.
Iraqi Student Project Baltimore Fundraiser at Metro Gallery 8 pm
INEVERYROOM, Yeveto, Romantic States and Dustin Wong. Proceeds from this fundraiser will support the Iraqi Student Project Baltimore, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps qualified wardisplaced Iraqis to study without cost at U.S. colleges/universities. Iraqi Student Project Baltimore currently supports one student in the Baltimore area and is run entirely by unpaid volunteers.
An Evening with Greg Dulli at Ottobar 9 pm
Greg Dulli, from the bands Twilight Singers and Afghan Wings will perform with guest Guest Craig Wedren (Shudder To Think).
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Sunday, Oct 24
School 33 Open Studio Tour 10 am
School 33 Art Center’s Open Studio Tour is an annual citywide event that for over 20 years has brought together professional artists and the general public, giving collectors and art lovers the opportunity to visit the studios of visual artists. Traveling from throughout Maryland, visitors get a chance to meet the artist, see their work and a behindthescenes glimpse into their working processes. Also on Saturday.
DIY Fest at 2640 12 pm
DIY Fest 2010 (Do It Yourself Festival) will be the 4th DIY Fest to be held in Baltimore City. The event is free (donations are greatly appreciated) and is open to anyone wanting to learn a new skill, teach or present one of their skills/hobbies or just check out what goes down at a DIY Fest.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Wednesday, Oct 27
Maryland Lawyers for the Arts 25th Anniversary Celebration 8 pm
“Left Brain Support for Right Brain People” Film Contest. Short film screenings, food and wine. Guest judge Matt Porterfield http://www.clarkpriftisart.com/i/videocontestflyer.pdf $10 admission Please contact Marcia Semmes for more information: msemmes@mdartslaw.org.
Disco Biscuits and Segway at Ram’s Head Live 7 pm
The Disco Biscuits have entered their second decade as one of the most successful acts on the jamband circuit.
In the years since the band sprang out of the University of Pennsylvania party scene in the mid’90s, the Disco Biscuits have brought together the worlds of jam bands and electronic music with its “trancefusion” sound that mixes the freeform improvisations of jazz with the hypnotic rhythms which provided the soundtrack for rave culture. In the process, the band has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal fanbase.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Ongoing
Eschatology II at Positron Gallery
Often in reference to the end of the world, the Oxford English Dictionary defines Eschatology as “concerned with the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell”. In Eschatology II, guest curator Cherí Landry invites you to explore this branch of theology through a selection of works by Emil Alzamora, Sasha Blanton, Jen Blazina, Jordan Eagles, Gwyneth Scally and Carlos Tarrats.
C?U?R?V?E?S? : Michael Dotson at Nudashank
Michael Dotson creates contemporary, synthetic landscapes that achieve a hitech sensibility through the use of lowtech media (paint and tape). Applying basic twopoint perspective and color theory, Dotson creates vivid geometric simulations of imagined utopic environments. Interior and exterior virtual spaces are rendered with a hardedged digital flatness that belies the fact that the work is made by the human hand.
Hope Against Hope At The Pheonix Shot Tower
From the theft of fire [by Prometheus], to contamination through water [Leviticus]; echoing the home of invention and the cornerstone laying by Charles Carroll of Carrollton; a commercial enterprise dissolves the myth of bullets and opens onto hope as poison at the bottom of Pandora’s box.
Scattering the fragments of history to the sound of falling water, this once tallest building in the US becomes a site of modest explorations and play.
Featuring site specific performances, video, drawing, installation, food, and lectures. Ends December 4.
FORCE: on the Culture of Rape at Current Gallery
If we are too uncomfortable to talk about rape, how can we ever process sexual violence in a way that lets individuals heal and challenges our culture to progress?
FORCE: on the Culture of Rape is a collection of art, performance, discussion, and critique about unwanted sexual experience. The show promotes a critical dialogue about how our attitudes towards gender, sex, power and violence are played out on people’s bodies. In bearing witness to the survivors of sexual violence, FORCE creates a safe and healing space. Closing November 1214.
25 Important Comics of Dina Kelberman at Pheonix
Dina Kelberman is one of the founders and (very) active members of Wham City Collective, creator of IMPORTANT COMICS (as seen in the City Paper and in her beautiful selfpublished book of the same name), local blogger and overall busyasapersoncanbe person. Her comics are timely, simple, and hilarious! We are proud to show her off on the walls of the bar!
“25 important Important Comics of Dina Kelberman” will be on view at Baltimore’s PHOENIX (1 west biddle) for the entire month of October. Show begins at 9pm on Friday, October 1st.
David Page & Elizabeth Brady at Jordan Faye Contemporary
Elizabeth Brady’s work is an observation and documentation from her environment. In discussing her work, Ms. Brady has said, “My new pieces are evolving to be less a direct representation and more of a reflection on Baltimore and the realities of those living here. The new series is directly influenced and informed by my experiences working with student artists and community members in Baltimore City.”
David Page creates seamlessly crafted sculptures constructed primarily from leather, wood, canvas and found objects. His sculptures juxtapose figurative forms with machine like structures and elements. His work is included in The Teaching collection at St. Mary’s College, the permanent collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the collection of Nelson Mandela. He has received two Individual Artist Awards in sculpture from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2007 and 2009.
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos And Toys In The Attic at The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum will host the playful and interactive world of bestselling author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick in the exhibition Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic on view Sept. 19, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011. Wick is the creator of the Can You See What I See? series and cocreator, with writer Jean Marzollo, of the I Spy books for children. Wick’s books challenge readers to solve visual riddles or puzzles created from the thousands of props he has collected in his renovated firehouse studio. His photographic style, one of precision and detail, will alter the viewer’s sense of visual perception. September 19, 2010 January 02, 2011
Upcoming: Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at The BMA
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first Museum
exhibition in the country to explore the Pop icon’s late
works. Featuring more than 50 paintings created between
1976 and 1986the most prolific era in Warhol’s 40
year career, the exhibition illustrates the artist’s energetic
return to painting (after his foray into filmmaking and
screenprinting) and the physical act of artmaking through
hand painting, folding, and staining. Paintings of epic proportions
stretching up to 35 feet wideenvelop viewers
in dramatic fields of color, painterly gestures, and symbols
of American culture.
What Makes Us Smile? at AVAM
In celebration of its 15th Anniversary, AVAM will mount its most delightfilled exhibition to date, exploring just “What Makes Us Smile?” It will be curated by master humorist and creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening, artist Gary Panter, and AVAM Founder Rebecca Hoffberger. This mega exhibition on the timeless and global phenomena of smiling, laughter and humor will include contributions by dozens of artists, including comedian Michael Baldwin’s spectacular vintage toy assemblages created from toys collected from five decades of his dedicated dumpster diving, and a seventhousand toothbrush welcome mat that uses bristles and color to invite a “SMILE” from all who enter. The triumvirate of curators will take a look at both historic and modern employ of humor to speak truth to power think court jester/fool’s ability to say things to the king that no one else could get away with to today’s Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert and their sardonic take on today’s news and leadership.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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What is What Weekly?
What Weekly is a multimedia magazine chronicling the real Baltimore movers and shakers not the corporations, not the politics, What Weekly spotlights the people. Were paying attention to the good things happening in Baltimore and sharing it all with you.
Why online? Disposable print media is wasteful and, with the advent and proliferation of the Internet, it is more difficult to justify. Technology is a gift and a tool use it to evolve and build things together.
If you want to be a part of the movement, you can send us your photos to publish, your events to promote and your ideas to talk about. Forward the email, share a link, start a movement. Your audience is the world, pass it on.
Whats the Goal?
One day soon you will hear a bit of news like this, “Multimedia Magazine Reaches One Million People.” If we dont do it, someone else will. We want to build a large independent distribution channel and well use it to tell the world what youre doing. We want as many people as possible clicking on the links to your websites and ultimately taking an interest in the Baltimore Renaissance and its artists.
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Whats the point?
This is a movement dedicated to uniting the creative community in and around Baltimore City and then sharing it throughout the world for the benefit of Baltimore and its people. The movement has already begun; we just gave it a name.
Using a multimedia platform, we want to put Baltimore on the map so it’s recognized globally for the artistic and intellectual hub that it is. We start by chronicling your amazing work.
We understand that the distribution of ideas is no longer bound by geography. This paradigm shift allows for cultural movements to exist locally and globally simultaneously. We can share everything, we can create anything and we can reach everyone. It’s time to do something with that power.
What Weekly does not exist without you. You are the soul of this movement.
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5. Encourage more facetoface interaction within the community
6. Drive awareness of excellent events
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