WHAT WEEKLY

★ Justin Allen

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Stop The Presses: How To Buy Back The Baltimore Sun

February 25, 2014

Justin Allen

Featured photo by Chris Montgomery The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore City Paper have been slowly dying for years. The big…

The Devil in Charm City

June 6, 2013

Justin Allen & Brooke Hall

I was in no hurry to post a review of MURDERCASTLE after witnessing the dress rehearsal on the eve of…

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…

The New Normal

December 5, 2012

Justin Allen

Don’t look now folks, but corporate profits are at an all time high while fewer Americans are working than at…

Action In Inaction

May 23, 2012

Justin Allen

If an advanced civilization somewhere out in the cosmos is responsible for colonizing life on Earth and the Mayans were…

Rock Opera: Valhella

May 17, 2012

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen

Story by Justin Allen, photos by Brooke Hall As I sat in the audience at opening night of the Baltimore…

Small Foods

March 7, 2012

Justin Allen

It turns out there’s something unexpectedly gratifying about miniaturized cuisine. I attended Small Foods 2012 with little expectation other than…

Jeramie Bellmay

February 9, 2012

Justin Allen & Philip Laubner

I don’t remember the first time I met Jeramie Bellmay. I do however remember the first time I heard him…

Night Sweats

February 1, 2012

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen

We recently paid our first visit to the EMP Collective in The 401 and it was long overdue. EMP has…

Seth Sherman

February 1, 2012

Justin Allen

When the Moment Is True, Seth Sherman’s new album, came to us by way of Austin, Texas from our friend…

Loring Cornish

January 18, 2012

Justin Allen & Glenford Nunez

A few weeks ago I got an interesting phone call from photographer Glenford Nunez. He’d happened across a newly opened…

Support The Baltimore Brew

January 12, 2012

Justin Allen

Baltimore Brew founders Mark Reutter and Fern Shen One could argue the health of modern society can be directly correlated…

Clutch

January 4, 2012

Justin Allen & Brooke Hall

  Weathermaker Music “We never made a penny off of our own recordings until we started our own label.” That’s…

Fishbone Documentary

December 15, 2011

Justin Allen

Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about Fishbone, one of the most amazing bands of all time. It’s so good that…

Manifest: Introspect

December 14, 2011

Theresa Keil & Justin Allen

Once again photographer Theresa Keil finds the convergence of art and music and aims her storied lens accordingly. The result…

Sea Couch: Satellites

November 14, 2011

Justin Allen

  Photo by Brooke Hall The experience of growing up with a father from East Tennessee, and later settling West…

Baltimore Afrobeat Society

November 10, 2011

Theresa Keil & Larry Cohen & Justin Allen

Performances by the Baltimore Afrobeat Society are both intense and deeply cathartic experiences as well as important cultural gatherings that…

Glenford Nunez

November 3, 2011

Justin Allen

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

All Things Round

October 26, 2011

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen

What AVAM has managed to do is curate an exhibit that is wholly interactive without necessarily needing to be tactile.…

Land and Peoples

October 26, 2011

Tedd Henn & Justin Allen

Lands & Peoples has become one of my favorite bands here in Baltimore, not to mention one of the nicest…