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Youth Fight Violence With Film

May 2, 2013

GiveCorps

Growing up in Baltimore, Taqi Juba says, “it often feels like everyone I know has lost a friend or a…

Fiction: Ringo Starr is a Beautiful Man by Dave K.

May 2, 2013

Timmy Reed

When our dog died, my dad told us he would get another dog for the house. My brother Pete had…

MURDERCASTLE

April 30, 2013

Peter Davis & Philip Laubner

Story by Peter Davis Photography by Philip Laubner   The Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS) is an all-volunteer theatrical company…

Where To From Out

April 29, 2013

Rupert

Where To From Out is Chris Mason’s latest charming, informative, deeply human and deeply humane autobiography through his life’s travels. What better…

RAW Artists: Cultivating Creativity

April 25, 2013

Christopher J. Rondo

It seems like every day a new “unconventional” art gallery opens up in Baltimore. This is great news for any…

The French Conniption: When a Chip Chop Drill Kills

April 25, 2013

Larry Evans

As you could surmise from my rambling inaugural What Weekly piece  Wrestlin’ With Baltimore (if you happened to catch it – and if…

The SEED of technology

April 25, 2013

GiveCorps

There is not a facet of our lives that technology doesn’t touch – from education and careers to social relationships…

From Here To There

April 24, 2013

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On March 29, 2013 the Maryland General Assembly passed Governor O'Malley's Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act ensuring that $4.4 Billion will…

From Here To There

April 24, 2013

whatweekly

On March 29, 2013 the Maryland General Assembly passed the historic Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act ensuring that $4.4 Billion will…

Poetry: 2 poems by Lori Markland

April 23, 2013

Timmy Reed

Burying the hatchets   They’re all about heroics, these skeletons—showing up on Saturdays for dinner and a nap. They might…

MAP’s 30 Under 30

April 18, 2013

LizHarby

Art can be many things. It can be a snapshot of its creator and his or her world. It can…

Summer Flu by Carabella Sands

April 18, 2013

Timmy Reed

  ­Summer Flu I was wearing the new dress My prettiest When my boyfriend’s sickness Took me I was petting…

Fire Brigades and the Gangs of Mob Town

April 17, 2013

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Mob Town Defeats the Mobs, Builds a Model Fire Department in the 19th Century   By Rob Williams, Assistant Director…

On Artichoke Haircut and the Things They Do

April 17, 2013

Adam Robinson

One of Baltimore’s coolest literature magazines is Artichoke Haircut, a small-format production that fits nicely in your hand and reads nicely…

Rebuilding Baltimore Together

April 17, 2013

GiveCorps

At 78 years old with a very limited income and living with rhematoid arthritis, Ms. S can no longer keep…

Transportation Infrastructure Now

April 16, 2013

Justin Allen

Note from the editor: Keeping in line with our mission, What Weekly advocates for transit and transportation infrastructure projects that…

World Premier: Camelot Requiem

April 14, 2013

Figaro

BALTIMORE OPERA TROUPE TO PREMIERE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION OPERA Hailed as an “impressive collective of talented performers,” Baltimore opera troupe The…

Let There Be Transit

April 11, 2013

Lindsey

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

Poetry: Excerpt from 23 Fragments by Erik Pecukonis

April 11, 2013

Timmy Reed

XII. Wilderness   ‘The last mist rolled over the city,’ serves a purpose to us both. The light, again, comes…