WHAT WEEKLY

★ Cover Story

Operation Oliver

September 21, 2011

whatweekly · Social Innovation

“Baltimore is the safest city I’ve lived in for the last 10 years.” That is my first response to anyone…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Startup Sheik :: The Swavor Story

February 20, 2015

Alisa Sonsev · Fashion

In 2010, 23-year-old Shek Tarawallie was selling t-shirts out of his locker for $20 apiece. Now, he is the owner and creative director of Swavor,

The Future of Mr. Trash Wheel

September 25, 2014

Kelly Louise Barton · Innovation

Mr. Trash Wheel can’t tame the Inner Harbor’s pollution all on his own.

Causes & Conditions :: The Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

February 26, 2014

Peter Dillon · Charm City

i. I really miss sarcasm. It just doesn’t exist here. I ask my local friends and coworkers about it. They understand the concept…by ironically mocking

BMOREhush Presents: BOSLEY-Temptation

September 5, 2013

BMOREhush · Video

BMOREhush is a video project in Baltimore that shoots live performances of some of our most talented musicians around town. This here is damn fine

Intuitive Insight: A Peek Under The Hood

March 30, 2011

What Weekly · Who We Am

Part 2 of a multi-post film series about how innovation and creativity intersect our prevailing cultural ideas about them here in the US.

Drive2Thrive – Discover Wonderland Fashion Show

October 27, 2010

Brooke Hall · Fashion

It's not everyday that Alice in Wonderland meets Project Runway in a philanthropy-driven spectacle under the towering glass ceilings of Port Discovery. And when it

The Implications of Our Actions

October 10, 2013

Allison Gulick · Art Criticism

Allison Gulick reviews Nancy Daly’s exhibition, Subject to Terms and Conditions, at School 33 Art Center on Light Street in Baltimore, through October 26th.  

Poetry: 2 by Brian Checco

August 15, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

4am in the morning threading through sepsis streets with my pockets full of crumpled receipts.

An Interview with author Michael Kimball

March 25, 2013

Adam Robinson · Baltimore Reader, What Lit

Michael Kimball’s new book is called Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (On a Postcard). It’s fresh out from Mud Luscious Press, and it is what

Fractal Cat Album Release

October 24, 2012

Philip Laubner & Robin Gunkel · Events, Music, Photo Essay

Fractal Cat and The Eye in the Dawn CD release + The Megadrives and kataStatik On October 18th at the Metro Gallery, Fractal Cat released

Baltimore High School Film Festival

April 10, 2013

Peter Jackson · Charm City

Local filmmakers like Barry Levinson and John Waters put Baltimore on the map. But the future directors of our city are just sharpening their teeth

The Essence Of Home

July 25, 2013

Jeff Brunell · Inward And Outward

The cavernous space is low lit and full of hand carved woodwork. It’s actually kind of pretty, and it smells just like I remember the

Baltimore Grand Prix

September 8, 2011

Tedd Henn · Innovation

This passed weekend marked the inaugural race for the Baltimore Grand Prix. There have been arguments for and against it. Proponents of the race argue

A Dream in Cherry Hill

August 8, 2012

Tristan Brooks & Tedd Henn · Community, Social Innovation

“Who controls the media in Baltimore City?” reads the construction-paper sign, in a basement computer lab in Cherry Hill Public Homes. Around it sit Navasha Daya,

Baltimore Bibliophilia

September 28, 2011

whatweekly · Literature

It’s difficult to say which is more potent. The brightly-colored balloons, the smell of freshly powdered funnel-cake and overpriced veggie lo mein, unexpected bubbles, the

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

Aspiration Vacuum

October 5, 2011

Lee Boot · Who We Am

Have we forgotten how to aspire? Have our problems, once merely sticky but now bordering on existential have scared us timorous, unadventurous and unimaginative? When’s

fashion

The Happy Hatter of Waverly

Photography by Brittney Sullivan In the world of fashion, there are many different pieces of the wardrobe and most people…

The Tailor at Hour Haus

Giordano’s Giant Nudes

Dyed For You

Tailor Made Cocktails

Glenford Nunez

nightlife

Comedy Noir

Sexual deviance, death, stupidity, mental illness, brutality, murder: don’t you love ‘em? I do, but not in the form…

Shodekeh at The Meyerhoff

New Year’s Eve 2010

SCREEN PASS

Peace Spore

Cameron Blake Double Album Release

social innovation

Let There Be Transit

Baltimore has plenty of fire. Fire for crime, for housing, for jobs. This past weekend the fire focused on transit,…

What is a Tool Library?

Building Genuine Diversity

The Good Deed Project

What is a Tool Library?

Occupy Baltimore

artist profiles

A Brief Conversation with Abdu Ali

All photos by Philip Laubner. What better atmosphere to interview a rising star than at a photo shoot? Right? This…

Loring Cornish

Mathew Bainbridge

Silent Whys

Glenford Nunez

Exclusive Video Interview with CEDA and DUME

sustainability

Small Time

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

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Farmageddon

Big Green Pirate Party

Welcome to the Free Farm