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Lunar State Radio: Classes

October 12, 2011

Matt Kelley & Ian McMurphy · Lunar State Radio

Episode 2: It's the first day of classes at Lunar State University and the curriculum is anything but ordinary. Writers…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Jennifer Stephens

May 23, 2012

Tristan Brooks & Philip Laubner & Theresa Keil · Artist Profiles, Performance

Photo by Philip Laubner Jennifer Stephens, also known as Marigold Bumbleroot, is a professional bubble-blower. https://vimeo.com/34443712 Filmed and edited by Ken Morrill of Yenra TV

Urban Dating :: Bravery

February 6, 2014

Charmed and Dangerous · Charm City

Anonymous Asked: How are you so brave with online dating? I’m always scared that someone in real life will recognize me or that my bosses

Warnock Foundation Survey Finds Hope Amongst Baltimoreans

October 29, 2013

Ezra Winter · Social Innovation

Publishers’ Note: The Warnock Foundation is a client of What Weekly’s sister company, What Works Studio. We are proud to work with The Warnock Foundation

Photo by Christian Senger

Born Behind Bars

May 7, 2014

Kelly King · Charm City

The image of pregnant women giving birth in chains seems like something out of Game of Thrones or some other fictional or historical era. Yet in

Huge Meteor Explodes Over Russia

February 15, 2013

whatweekly · Charm City

A huge meteor exploded over Russia this morning, damaging buildings, blowing out windows, and injuring up to 500 people.

National Poetry Month: Carla Jean Valluzzi’s Oulipost

April 23, 2014

Timmy Reed · What Lit

“April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain.” – T.S. Eliot

For the Love of God(ard)

December 17, 2014

Samantha Mitchell · Essays, Film

When Adieu au langage/Goodbye to Language screened at Cannes this year, the audience reportedly broke out into fevered applause about halfway though the film. When the

Intuitive Insight: A Peek Under The Hood

March 30, 2011

What Weekly · Who We Am

Part 2 of a multi-post film series about how innovation and creativity intersect our prevailing cultural ideas about them here in the US.

Baltimore Chefs Behind Bars

April 15, 2015

Meekah Hopkins · Events, Food

Chefs Behind Bars…it sounds like culinary Cops, or some sort of correctional-based reality show. If you’re like me, you’re already half tempted. But the actual

Talulah Derailed

August 17, 2011

Lee Boot · Who We Am

It seems to me that would be pretty unusual to judge yourself as the one in 1,000 artists who will be able to live on

Paco Fish

July 12, 2012

David London & Philip Laubner & Theresa Keil · Artist Profiles, Performance

Photo by Philip Laubner It is difficult to wander the streets of Baltimore’s strange and eccentric world of performance without bumping into Paco Fish. Whether

Malaise and Malaria

September 9, 2011

Lee Boot · Social Innovation

The big hope for Westerners in the past few centuries was the idea that things would just keep getting better and better for us. Unfortunately,

Glenford Nunez

November 3, 2011

Justin Allen · Artist Profiles, Fashion

With seemingly little mentoring, or outside direction, at 24 years old, Glenford has broken into the New York agency scene through shear determination. In fact,

The Craft Mafia

June 29, 2011

Angelique Weger · Art

Angelique Weger takes us on a visit to ground zero of the Baltimore craft scene to get a closer look at the Charm City Craft

The Baltimore Zoo Through the Lens of Fall Libations

November 23, 2014

Chuck Green · Commentary, Food

  Baltimore has a zoo! I almost forgot. I definitely went there when I was a kid. I was riding my bike past it one

Top 5 Events :: March 20th, 2014

March 20, 2014

Ezra Winter · Charm City

Top 5 Events (in no particular order) Each week we round up the most fun goings-on in the city.  Please submit your event to our calendar if

Paid Biotech Internships in West Baltimore

October 10, 2013

Peter Jackson · Charm City

“I’m learning new things every day at my job and I owe it all to BTI.” After losing his mother to cancer, Deric Richardson was

social innovation

#SaveADopeBoy

“You know, people look at the young drug dealers in this city like they a menace. Man, these are kids.…

Dusting Off Our Game

What is a Tool Library?

Ultimate Block Party

Feedback

Occupy Baltimore

artist profiles

Mathew Bainbridge

For the past 15 years, Detroit native Mathew Bainbridge has worked at the top of the Baltimore film industry. His…

Living Illustrated with Alex Fine

Matt Muirhead Goes Big

Brian Baker

Fashion Photographer Sean Scheidt

Philip Laubner’s Evacuation Route

sustainability

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Urban gardens are sprouting up all over Baltimore. If you don't have a small plot of land for growing food,…

Farmageddon

Fixing The Future

Welcome to the Free Farm

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Big Green Pirate Party