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

Behind the Fence

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The Tailor at Hour Haus

The Littlest Fashion Truck Ever

Otakon 2010

RAW Artists: Cultivating Creativity

Robyn’s Nest

social innovation

International Fest 2011

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Wide Angle Youth Media

Challenging a Culture of Low Expectations

The Internet is My Religion

Transportation Infrastructure Now

Amplify Baltimore

artist profiles

Mathew Bainbridge

For the past 15 years, Detroit native Mathew Bainbridge has worked at the top of the Baltimore film industry. His…

Shocked and Amazed

When Everything Disappears :: An Interview with light artist Sean Michael Kenny

The Tailor at Hour Haus

Charm City Makeup

MilkMilkLemonade

sustainability

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

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Farmageddon

Fixing The Future

Big Green Pirate Party

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Small Time

technology

Smart Textiles

There’s been no shortage of discussion concerning the artist’s affect on society as of late. More specifically, there’s been growing…

Real Science Fiction

Intuitive Insight: The Hot Spot

Create Baltimore, Take 2

Betamore

Common Curriculum Launch