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. Artichoke Haircut: You’re Allowed
Really! You are!
We are really excited to be hosting Dave Housley, Mike Ingram, Dan Brady, and Tom McAllister, four great writers all from the notorious lit mag Barrelhouse. AH loves collaborations, and we could think of no better magazine and writers to collaborate with. It’s going to be a blast.
2. Torres and Pumphrey Art Opening at Creative Alliance
Katie Pumphrey and Allessandra Torres
It’s always a fun bet to check out a Creative Alliance opening or event. Fight or Flight showcases all new artwork by Alessandra Torres and Katie Pumphrey, created over the course of their respective three-year residencies at the Creative Alliance. The exhibition explores themes of confrontation, reflex, competition, territory, instinct, interaction, and personal space. (allow some time of repacking or take a cab though!)
3. Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival
Short Attention Spans Rejoice
We invited fifty playwrights, ten directors, and over fifty actors, all local, to create a festival of new, really short works. A must-see intro to Baltimore’s dynamic and resourceful theatre scene. At the new E.M.P. Collective spot, which is worth checking out – it’s downtown and near the What Weekly office!
4. Sterling Sisters, Weekends, Goblin Mold, Sick Lion & St. Julien
Hosting a Host of Locals
Metro Gallery is hosting a host of locals. Rock and roll your way across this lineup, paying particular attention to our friends in Goblin Mold (and certainly not because one of their members has provided excellent poker action for some of our editorial staff) and the jangly Jesus and Mary Chain stylings of occasional Baltimorean St. Julien. 18 and up.
You’re not too cool for the good tourist stuff! (Or at least we’re not)
Dear readers, it’s easy to forget about the tourist attraction things Baltimore has to offer – but we do have a world-class aquarium and it’s worth checking out. From September 6, 2013 through March 28, 2014, admission to the National Aquarium, Baltimore, is just $12 on Fridays after 5 pm.* Guests may enter any time between 5 and 8 pm and tour the exhibits until 9:30 pm. Attn: Aquairum staff- In return for this plug the What Weekly staff fully expects some VIP dolphin rides.
