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Reggie Watts Kills It

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African American Festival 2011

July 6, 2011

Photos by Glenford Nunez Every year the African American Festival hosts a half a million people in Baltimore. Photographer Glenford…

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Matt Pless

August 2, 2012

Dharna Noor · Music

Matt Pless at the 2640 Space. Shot By Tom Kessler. Baltimore’s Matt Pless has opened for bands you know: Rilo Kiley, the Ataris, Fallout Boy,

Stilt-A-Thon

October 17, 2012

Liz Harby · Events, Performance

Photo from 2011 Stilt-A-thon. Credit: Mitro Hood Baltimore’s month long of free events courtesy of Free Fall Baltimore is over half way through. Have you

Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey

January 13, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Performance

The interspecies burlesque duo, Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey, pack the house at The Ottobar. Here’s Trixie Little‘s interpretation of The of Flight

Top 5 Events :: Jan. 30th 2014

January 29, 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

What Makes Us Smile?

October 13, 2010

Matt Kelley & Brooke Hall & Tedd Henn · Art, Charm City

When asked how he felt about Baltimore and the AVAM Matt had this to say. "Baltimore is amazing. Historically it is amazing, you can't go

Grunion Run by Juliet Escoria

March 11, 2014

Timmy Reed · Literature, What Lit

Today I am excited to feature Grunion Run by Juliet Escoria. The story, which first appeared in Everyday Genius (What Weekly contributor Adam Robinson’s daily

Longmont Potion Castle :: Boats

April 28, 2014

Nik Oldershaw · Charm City

The Jerky Boys were never funny. They just weren’t. Still they are synonymous with prank calls. Every menial job I’ve ever worked has at some

Inside Out at 2640

June 22, 2011

Philip Laubner · Music

"It's not a traditional trio in the sense of bass and drum accompaniment. It's really bass, drum and piano interacting. We talk to each other

Lafayette Gilchrist and The New Volcanos

February 10, 2011

whatweekly & Baynard Woods · Music

Lafayette Gilchrist is a master of the piano, but like Duke Ellington, his real instrument is his band. Gilchrist, who didn’t begin playing piano until

Future Islands Performing Spirit, Live on Jimmy Kimmel

May 6, 2014

whatweekly · Music, Video

Future Islands performing Spirit on Jimmy Kimmel, May 5, 2014.

Space Invaders

December 8, 2011

Urbanite Magazine · Charm City

The new face of sustainable seafood by Martha Thomas photo by J.M. Giordano Originally published in Urbanite Magazine October 31, 2011 It may be a

Britt Olsen-Ecker

March 28, 2012

Philip Laubner · Art, Artist Profiles, Music, Performance

The first time I saw Britt Olsen-Ecker was from the audience of the Strand Theater in 2010. She was playing Giselle: a brassy, over the

Kinetic Sculpture

May 9, 2012

Larry Cohen · Art, Photo Essay

Last Saturday marked the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM)’s 14th Annual Kinetic Sculpture Race. Kinetic Sculptures are amphibious, human-powered works of art custom-built for the race

Netflix Premiers Its First Exclusive Documentary

July 15, 2014

Michael Balderston · Film, Technology

There’s symmetry to Netflix premiering a documentary on an independent baseball team that ruffled the feathers of Major League Baseball. Forty years after the Portland