WHAT WEEKLY

★ Cover Story

Generous Company presents GUMBO

January 30, 2013

Peter Davis · Conversations on Theater, Performance

Gumbo is a festival, a two week hot house to nurture and generate artistic responses to recent conversations on the…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Natural’s Not In It

April 10, 2013

Deirdre Smith · Art, Art Criticism

Deirdre Smith on Lisa Dillin’s Stopgap, at Gallery Four   Visitors to the opening night of Lisa Dillin’s solo show, Stopgap found Gallery Four inhabited by

Wild Nothing and Future Islands

July 15, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Art, Charm City, Music

As you can see by this photo and the ones that proceeded it, the Metro Gallery officially surpassed Disneyland as the happiest place on earth

The New Robber Barons

August 14, 2014

Sarika Duvvuru Reddy · Commentary

Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gates, Ellison: philanthropic robber barons of their times. It takes a certain kind of chutzpah, selfishness, ambition (as well as race and gender)

High Zero Festival – Did You Close Your Eyes or Keep Them Open?

October 4, 2013

Kelly Louise Barton & Nick Hughes · Music, Photo Essay

Depending on your choice of what you attended at this year’s festival, the collective experience of High Zero was nothing short of interesting. As a

Photo by McKenzie Elizabeth Ditter

The Star of Mobile Thrifting: STACEY CHAMBERS

October 27, 2014

Abby Higgs · Business, Fashion, Innovation

Stacey Chambers. With her lovable bear hugs, palm-searing high fives, and gestures as animated as a plate-spinning juggler, she puts the “arm” in Charm City.

The Death Set: Slap Slap…

January 27, 2011

What Weekly · Nightlife, Video

The Death Set – Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap from The Death Set on Vimeo. New single from The Death Set LP “Michel

Inward, Outward: Process

September 5, 2013

Jeff Brunell · Inward And Outward

Longtime townie Jeff Brunell finally returned to school just before turning thirty. He’s in southern India, completing his graduate field work and taking stock. These

Piano Man of Read Street :: Leonardo Cagape

March 5, 2014

Robert Gesumaria & Brooke Hall · Music

Story by Robert Gesumaria. Photos by Brooke Hall. Would you like to hear Billy Joel and Elton John live, playing for free, at a cozy

Fashion’s Night Out

September 14, 2011

Glenford Nunez & Max Bent · Fashion

The September Issue Photo by Travis Johnson The Baltimore Fashion Alliance’s celebration of Fashion’s Night Out, a now international Fashion Week kick-off created by Vogue

The Collector by Juliana Grace

August 22, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

  I walked without thinking into a well-dressed younger woman, younger than me I mean, coming out of the tavern. She said, oh excuse me,

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

Idea Asteroid

October 20, 2011

Lee Boot · Who We Am

Imagine a big gnarly idea hurtling through space and on a collision course with your head. It's threatening you directly. It's going to wreak havoc.

The Art of Leaving

June 11, 2014

Hannah Ehlenfeldt · Charm City

Back in the good ol’ days of Anthro Theory class, we’d often talk about “making the strange familiar and the familiar strange.” As you can

Meditations on the Landscape of Desire and Practice at C. Grimaldis Gallery

May 18, 2011

Baynard Woods · Art

Story by Baynard Woods Photo by Sofia Silva Meditations on the Landscape of Desire by Sofia Silva and Practice by Lu Zhang, the two shows

Legendary Photographer Elliott Landy

November 7, 2012

Brooke Hall · Art, Artist Profiles

Famed photographer Elliott Landy is coming to Baltimore on Friday, November 9, as a juror for Maryland Art Place’s Fall benefit and exhibition, LUX gala. Landy

Sean E. Conroy

July 19, 2012

Dharna Noor · Art, Artist Profiles

All images courtesy the artist “The Buddha said, ‘It’s the not seeing of this suffering that keeps us bound,’” quotes Sean E Conroy on his

Slam Up Spreads Message of Love and TMI

October 22, 2014

Samantha Mitchell · Comedy, Performance

On a regular Thursday night in Baltimore, patrons of The Bun Shop were equal parts delighted and surprised to find themselves in the audience of

artist profiles

Peace of Mind

Baltimore artist Scott Pennington has been working out of a 2,000-square-foot woodworking shop and studio for about three years, holding…

Loring Cornish

Shawn Theron

Bethany Dinsick Gives Colors

Dr. Bob: Life on the Fringe

Bagoas

sustainability

Baltimore Free Farm

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

Small Time

Welcome to the Free Farm

Big Green Pirate Party

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Farmageddon