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★ Cover Story

Conversations on Theater: Parlor Plays

May 7, 2014

Philip Laubner · Conversations on Theater, Performance

Orange is the new safe word, or in this case, orange is the safe word in an all-woman-acted play called…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Talking Parlor, NaPoWriMo with Sarah Jean Alexander

May 9, 2013

Adam Robinson · Baltimore Reader

Parlor is an online journal run by Sarah Jean Alexander, a Baltimore writer and bartender. It’s unique, with a collaborative focus, pairing sets of two

MUSIC VIDEO: Whore of Baltimore

June 2, 2011

What Weekly · Art, Music, Video

The beat for song is a sound recording of Bethany Dinsick's brain being scanned by an MRI machine. "Whore of Baltimore" written, performed, costumes, art

Brooks Kossover – Artist Profile

January 15, 2014

Jenn Danzig & Tedd Henn · Photo Essay

Recent MICA graduate Brooks Kossover has found success by painting oil portraits of popular musicians, a rich tradition in post-sixties American painting.  We enjoyed taking

Andy Cook at The Metro Gallery

November 4, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Art, Music

On Thursday, October 29th, photographer Andy Cook had a book release party for not one but two books. He had the book, In The Air

Fragments

August 8, 2012

Matt Kelley · Art, Performance

He’s breaking out of the glass, Glass Mind Theatre that is. Recently, GMT co-founder Alexander Scally has begun his own exploration into the realm of

Expect the Unexpected: David London’s Creative Spirit Séance

July 31, 2014

Kevin McNamara & Philip Laubner · Events

Editor’s Note: David London once was a managing director at What Weekly. David London is a magician. Unless you know him, whatever image just popped

Normal’s Bookstore Anniversary Party

June 4, 2014

Gatsby · Charm City

From our friends at Normals: “On June 1st, Normal’s Books & Records turns 24! To celebrate all our years hustling culture we’re throwing a party

Theatre Softball Death Match

August 23, 2012

Tristan Brooks & Britt Olsen-Ecker · Performance, Sports

It was a breezy Saturday afternoon, much like any other. Except that at a certain park in a certain West Baltimore neighborhood (which, for legal

Tig Notaro’s Boyish Girl Interrupted Tour Hits Baltimore

September 29, 2014

Amanda Fortner · Comedy

Comedian Tig Notaro will be taking the stage at Rams Head Live this Tuesday on the Baltimore leg of her nationwide Boyish Girl Interrupted Tour.

Portland: We’re Nice Here, Remember  

September 11, 2014

Chuck Green · Commentary

I grew up in Baltimore, and I’ve been here for my entire life, except for a few occasional travels and a year or two when

Lauren Lakis

September 1, 2011

Philip Laubner · Artist Profiles

Baltimore native Lauren Lakis traveled from Prague to Tokyo, and has just recently made her way to Los Angeles where she's finding work as an

Commissure At The Contemporary Museum

January 20, 2011

Baynard Woods · Art, Nightlife

I felt disembodied, as if I were floating, watching people react to the news of my own death. I got this feeling from "Commissure," The

Top 5 Events :: May 15th, 2014

May 15, 2014

Gatsby · Charm City

Top 5 Events (in no particular order) Each week we bring you the goodness. We are pleased to partner with car service Uber Baltimore to help you

Tattoo the Ta-Tas

December 17, 2013

Kelly Louise Barton & Brooke Hall · Wellness

Tricia Thompson, President and Founder of a successful local company, has been waiting since the beginning of July to get her nipples back.

Green Street Academy :: Reshaping Urban Education

November 19, 2014

Joey Malinski · Innovation

Green Street Academy is changing urban education in West Baltimore by creating a school that focuses on "Green" initiatives and hands on learning.

25th Annual Powwow

May 2, 2012

Robin Gunkel & Philip Laubner & Theresa Keil & Larry Cohen · Community, Events

Photo by Larry Cohen 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of Powwow. Since 1988 Powwow has held the last Sunday of April, sometimes first Sunday of

J’Accuse — Munich 1972

August 9, 2012

David London & Theresa Keil · Art

Gigi McKendric has been a professional artist for more than six decades. Her work spans many mediums, including poetry, sculpture, film, paintings, life masks, and

fashion

Charm City Fashion Show at BMI

Our ongoing exploration of the city has again yielded adventures that traverse the spectrum of the spacetime continuum and uncover…

Navigating Victoria’s Secret

Smart Textiles

Tailor Made Cocktails

Panoptic Fashion Show- MICA

Saint Harridan in Baltimore :: The Suits You’ve Been Waiting For

nightlife

Let’s Mess With Texas

Many of the two-hundred-plus people gathered at MICA for the CreateBaltimore event on January 15 were hacker/ techies, so tons…

Bent Ear

Murder Ink at Single Carrot Theatre

Peace Spore

Boite: Show and Tell

Celebration “Honeysuckle Blue”

social innovation

Baltimore Time Bank

At the conclusion of a dynamic presentation last Friday by Piper Watson and John Shea, discussing the future plans of…

The BNote Revealed

Let There Be Transit

Treating Others

Let’s Mess With Texas

Loveasaurus Records

sustainability

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Publishers’ Note: Green Street Academy is a client of What Weekly’s sister company, What Works Studio. We are proud to have…

Small Time

Welcome to the Free Farm

Fixing The Future

Baltimore Free Farm

Farmageddon