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Transmodern Festival 2011

May 5, 2011

Justin Allen & Brooke Hall & Philip Laubner & Theresa Keil · Art, Music

Events like the Transmodern Festival, now in its eighth year, are filling the void in our culture left by the…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

2013 Sondheim Prize: The Big Reveal

August 1, 2013

Joyce Yu-Jean Lee · Art Criticism

At the awards ceremony, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake announced the 2013 Sondheim Prize winner as Gabriela Bulisova, to which Bulisova humbly remarked she did

Center for Urban Families is putting fathers back to work

June 13, 2013

Peter Jackson · Charm City

  Balitmore City’s most vulnerable citizens have been the hardest hit in this recession. Throughout our city, there are men and women fighting against the tide

Asking Questions is a Must See

August 17, 2011

Brooke Hall & Philip Laubner · Performance

Not for the faint of heart, Nancy Murray’s original debut play Asking Questions reminds us why theatre still exists. As new variations on entertainment emerge

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,

What Weekly Fiction Contest ~Cash Prize~

February 6, 2014

Jeremy Chase-Israel · Charm City

February’s Theme: Urban Legends Found in a Bottle is themed monthly fiction contest that will be held by What Weekly Magazine. The contest’s name is

Curious and Curiouser

July 24, 2013

Cynthia Chin & Matthew Saindon · Art Criticism

Cynthia Chin analyzes Cat Sachse’s ARTSCAPE satellite exhibition. Located on the first floor of the Botteon building on South Conkling Street in Highlandtown, Baltimore Threadquarters

The Hustle

June 26, 2013

Ezra Winter · The Hustle

By Ezra Lefko (the easier-to-pronounce comedy alter-ego of writer and artist Natan Lefkowits)   Welcome to The Hustle! Just as music, theater and other performance

What about the girls?

May 9, 2013

Peter Jackson · Charm City

As Shaeleen Bader was driving through Baltimore one day, she saw a teenage boy with a lacrosse stick and it struck a chord – boys

Charm City Fashion Show at BMI

April 15, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Art, Fashion, Music

Our ongoing exploration of the city has again yielded adventures that traverse the spectrum of the spacetime continuum and uncover evidence that there is a

Gather Baltimore’s next big step

October 22, 2013

Peter Jackson · Charm City

Over the past several months, Gather Baltimore added a second truck to their fleet, implemented a regular Sunday farm stand that draws 200 community members in the

Poetry: 3. Une Graine (Excerpted from Lux Light Lumiere) by Jesse Mitchell

May 30, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

3. Une Graine Ambulances and cars slam screaming, moon soaked, through the hard streets baked clean by the sun all day.  This is me all

Screaming Females at Golden West

August 26, 2010

Theresa Keil · Music

First look at Marissa and you see a small girl in a militant red dress, tights and the coolest black and wingtip shoes.  She is

Erica Hinson Denny

November 25, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen & Theresa Keil & Philip Laubner · Art

She said, “we are flowers of one garden” and we’re left to wonder if she knew how profound those words would be to us now.

Poetry: Ashtray Mouth by Matthew Falk

June 24, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

  Ashtray Mouth I swear, she makes me want to change my name. When she puts on her face, I understand what the world is

A Baltimore pear orchard could feed thousands

August 8, 2013

Peter Jackson · Charm City

Teachers and parents are always telling kids to “strive for five” and that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But for kids living

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

fashion

Fighting Rape in Underwear

  Why are two feminists fighting rape in their underwear?   Story by Rebecca Nagle, photos by Philip Laubner FORCE:…

Tailor Made Cocktails

The Star of Mobile Thrifting: STACEY CHAMBERS

Giordano’s Giant Nudes

Panoptic Fashion Show- MICA

FashionEASTa 2015

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…

Brian Baker

Celebration “Honeysuckle Blue”

Sick Weapons Last Show at Golden West

Murder Ink at Single Carrot Theatre

Gateway at Ruintown

social innovation

Station North: Thinking Big!

This week, the Station North Arts & Entertainment District announced the winners of the second round of funding for it’s…

Support The Baltimore Brew

Capitalism with a Conscience: All Tesla Patents are Now Open Source

“Hi” Art

Baltimore Renaissance Project

The 99%

artist profiles

Big Fat Bawlmer Wedding

Last weekend we attended My Big Fat Bawlmer Wedding, a yearly fundraiser for The Baltimore Art & Music Project. The event…

Charm City Makeup

Bart O’Reilly

Sean E. Conroy

Jennifer Stephens

They’re Not Making Art Anymore :: An Interview with Fred Lazarus IV

sustainability

Small Time

A couple of years ago, while I was reporting on a redevelopment plan in Buffalo, New York, I met up…

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Big Green Pirate Party

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Welcome to the Free Farm

Farmageddon