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

Glenford Nunez

With seemingly little mentoring, or outside direction, at 24 years old, Glenford has broken into the New York agency scene…

Tailor Made Cocktails

Charm City Makeup

Fashion’s Night Out

Behind the Fence

The Littlest Fashion Truck Ever

nightlife

SCREEN PASS

Around this time of year I receive advance screening DVD’s of hopefully award-worthy movies. I get them because I’m in…

Let’s Mess With Texas

Sound and Fury Signifying… Oscar.

Shodekeh at The Meyerhoff

Nina Simone: Baltimore set to scenes from The Wire

Commissure At The Contemporary Museum

social innovation

#SaveADopeBoy

“You know, people look at the young drug dealers in this city like they a menace. Man, these are kids.…

What is a Tool Library?

The Exchange Revamps Itself for 2014 & Beyond

Redefining Family and Community

PNC Transformative Art

The Merchants of Dissonance

artist profiles

Cory Donovan

Living Illustrated with Alex Fine

I should know better than to ascribe one’s artistic work as wholly representative of the artist himself. Still, I feel…

Future Islands Homecoming

BROS

Mr. Oz

The Blind Biker

A Conversation with Bob Rose

sustainability

Farmageddon

On Halloween nothing’s more frightening than a bobble headed Mr. Boh hanging out with the Gorton’s fisherman guy. Over the…

Fixing The Future

Baltimore Free Farm

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Small Time

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore