WHAT WEEKLY

Top 5 Events :: Jan. 30th 2014

29 January 2014

★ Ezra Lefko

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 you’d like to see yourself here!  We are pleased to partner with car service Uber Baltimore to help you get to your events in style!  Download the Uber app and get a $20 credit when you sign up with code WhatWeekly.

1.Bettie Page Film at the Creative Alliance

The Original Pinup

BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL is an intimate look atone of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, Bettie Page, who tells her own story in her own words for the first time. In Academy-nominated filmmaker Mark Mori’s documentary, the real Bettie Page emerges from the veil of myth and rumor via interviews he taped a decade prior to her death in 2008.  At the Creative Alliance

2. Venus Envy Closing Party at Gallery 788

Femme Fatale Show – Closing up Shop

Gallery 788 is proud to present the Venus Envy II Closing Reception.  Didn’t make the opening for Gallery 788′s all female art show? Join us for the closing reception on Friday January 31 from 6:00pm- 9:00pm. Enjoy performances by Kerra Holtgren/ Swedish Fist, Tamika Jancewicz, and more TBA! Our good friend and What Weekly contributor Theresa Keil has some pieces as well.

3. Naked Lunch: A Burrough’s Birthday Bash

Celebrate the Infamous Writer

Celebrate the glorious mess that is “Naked Launch: A Burroughs Birthday Bash”, featuring live music, movies, makeup, and mayhem inspired by “Naked Lunch”!

4. Mount Royal Album Release with Raindeer and Gage

Baltimore Musical Cognoscenti

Members of Baltimore stalwarts Celebration, Lake Trout and Big in Japan get ready to release their first album as the new band Mount Royal.  Including drummer Mike Lowry who still owes us an interview!  Our friends in Raindeer and Gage open the show, having just come off an exciting DIY tour that nearly killed a Prius.

5. Fourth Annual Brodown

Baltimore Rock Opera Society Striving Towards Valhalla

Come early and stay late! Dress weird! Dress weirder than us!!!Come party with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society! For the 4th year in a row, the BROS will descend on The Windup Space (12 W North Ave) and deliver a night of brain-rattling, entrails-twisting FUN to support Baltimore’s favorite masters of epic-rock spectacle, and to raise funds for their FIRST TOURING SHOW: GRÜNDLEHÄMMER, premiering in March!



fashion

From Russia, With Lace

Polina’s Prive Photography by Sarah Thrower Just because it is underneath what most people see on a daily basis, lingerie…

Fighting Rape in Underwear

Otakon 2010

Sharp Dressed Man Opens In Mt. Vernon

The Happy Hatter of Waverly

Robyn’s Nest

nightlife

Cameron Blake Double Album Release

On Monday, December 20th Cameron Blake, accompanied by an ensemble of brilliant musicians, debuted his two newest albums ‘Hide and…

The Death Set: Slap Slap…

Emily Wells at Cyclops Books

Peace Spore

Sick Weapons Last Show at Golden West

Commissure At The Contemporary Museum

social innovation

Enducation Series

This is the short wrap up of the WhoWeAm series on looking at education through the lens of culture. Two…

Elf Night

Amplify Baltimore

Stop The Presses: How To Buy Back The Baltimore Sun

Getting Baked

The New American Dream

artist profiles

CMJ Crowd Discovers Indie Immigrants of Oz

At the CMJ Music Marathon where all the acts are first class, Immigrant Union is a ladder to the sun.…

The Blind Biker

TOVEN

Nikkuu Design

Michael Owen

Renewable Artifacts

sustainability

Welcome to the Free Farm

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

Baltimore Free Farm

Fixing The Future

Small Time

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Big Green Pirate Party