WHAT WEEKLY

★ Cover Story

The Clown With No Circus

February 2, 2011

whatweekly & Justin Allen & Brooke Hall · Music

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, freaks of all shapes and sizes! Gather ‘round while I spin the tale of…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Excerpt from Participants, by Andrew Keating

March 27, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

Identify Variables When you see a person smoking, does the smoking: a) increase the person’s attractiveness to you; b) decrease the person’s attractiveness to you;

Downtown Hotel :: Brookshire Suites

February 12, 2014

Ezra Winter · Charm City

The Brookshire Suites, a 96 room hotel on Lombard St. just re-opened with a series of murals by our friend Micheal Owen from the Baltimore

Shodekeh’s Embody Concert

April 1, 2010

Justin Allen & Brooke Hall · Music

Last Saturday we witnessed Shodekeh register beats on the Richter Scale with a presentation that made drummers from Canton to California drop their sticks and

Mutual Benefit at Metro Gallery with Julia Brown, Other Colors, & Soft Cat

May 14, 2014

Nick Hughes & Dan Windsor · Music

I was glad Julia Brown opened up the night because I got to watch them capture all those fashionably late attendees trickling into Metro Gallery

Free Fall Baltimore: The Movement

October 11, 2012

David London & Theresa Keil · Events

Free Fall Baltimore 2012 celebrated its first weekend last week, with over 30 free events around the city. Now in its seventh year, Free Fall

Fermented Femmes

July 5, 2012

Dharna Noor & Theresa Keil · Art, Community

Kat Hirsch is not from Baltimore. “I’m not even an artist,” she admitted. But this past Fall, she created a Facebook event to cultivate communication

Creative Differences Presents Henry Grimes and Audrey Chen

September 2, 2010

Jason Bender · Music

Lost from the earth for some 35 years, Henry Grimes - the bassist de rigueur for everyone from Benny Goodman and Gerry Mulligan to Sonny

What Instagram :: Adam Elkins

February 6, 2014

Kelly Louise Barton · Charm City

Not only does Adam Elkins’s Instagram, bigmanjapan, provide a glimpse into Cleveland that I had no idea existed, he also manages to capture vivid reflections

Inside Bronycon

August 15, 2013

Philip Laubner & Jeremy Chase-Israel · Photo Essay

Recently, throngs of twenty-something men were walking down Pratt Street wearing over-sized ears, fairy wings, and homemade buttons.

Lantern Parade 2010

November 4, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Art

Each year Nana Projects, The Creative Alliance and The Friends of Patterson Park work together to produce one of the most fantastical and truly unique

2013 Charm City Fringe Festival

October 23, 2013

whatweekly · Festival, Performance

By Leland Strott   Before November 2011, Charm City Fringe co-founders Zachary Michel and Michael Brush were outsiders of the Baltimore theatre community. “We knew

The Temporary Nature of Ideas

September 9, 2010

Justin Allen & Theresa Keil · Art

If humans weren’t social animals, civilization wouldn’t have evolved into what it is today. Considering the amount of time life has existed on this planet,

Nina Simone: Baltimore set to scenes from The Wire

January 6, 2011

What Weekly · Nightlife, Video

Nina Simone: Baltimore set to scenes from The Wire.

130% Surround Sound at The Red Room

August 26, 2010

whatweekly · Music

Tucked away in a cramped, un-air conditioned cranny of the venerable East 31st Street emporium dubbed The Red Room, the curious sit front-to-back in

BRO-DOWN

November 24, 2010

Theresa Keil & Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Music, Station North

Feeling as though we needed to be wielding battle axes and clamors, the mood and sounds went from rock music to war cry as everyone

Blizzard 2010

February 10, 2010

whatweekly & Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Art

Mother Nature gets creative and gives us pause long enough to feel humble under the weight of her latest masterpiece. Scaling the screen door like

Shakespeare With Kevin Spacey :: Movie Review

April 22, 2014

Mark Schiffer · Film

The production has long since ended. In 2012, Sam Mendes (director of American Beauty, Jarhead, and Skyfall) led a production of Richard III in collaboration

nightlife

Murder Ink at Single Carrot Theatre

On the fifth of January participants in Single Carrot Theatre’s recitation of Anna Ditkoff’s City Paper column, Murder Ink, entered…

Let’s Mess With Texas

Brian Baker

New Year’s Eve 2010

Sound and Fury Signifying… Oscar.

Comedy Noir

artist profiles

The Impact of Jack Radcliffe: A Mentor’s Story

You see a dark-haired angel, a small girl who counts her polka dots when she’s tired. Her mother speaks to…

Loring Cornish

Adam Scott Miller

Future Islands Homecoming

A SOGH Story

Bagoas

sustainability

Welcome to the Free Farm

All photos by David London Nestled just blocks from The Avenue in Hanpden is a leafy utopia known as the…

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Fixing The Future

Small Time

Baltimore Free Farm

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden