WHAT WEEKLY

★ Cover Story

Charm City Walks With Wallenda

June 19, 2012

Dharna Noor · Events, Performance

All photos courtesy of Charm City Movement Arts In early May, Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope across Batimore’s Inner Harbor…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Causes & Conditions :: The Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

February 26, 2014

Peter Dillon · Charm City

i. I really miss sarcasm. It just doesn’t exist here. I ask my local friends and coworkers about it. They understand the concept…by ironically mocking

When In Rome

August 18, 2010

Theresa Keil · Charm City, Music

Toga = Happy. And to think the answer was right there all along.

Station North: Thinking Big!

March 21, 2012

David London · Social Innovation, Station North

This week, the Station North Arts & Entertainment District announced the winners of the second round of funding for it’s “Think Big” Grants for projects

Let’s Do Some Stuff!

April 7, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Charm City

A natural fit: Retro TV game show and Hamden’s Hon Bar. This is where notorious beehive backdrop meets accordion-playing, trivia-asking experimental game show host, Landis

Beggar’s Banquet :: Causes and Conditions

May 26, 2014

Peter Dillon · Charm City

The most difficult thing with generosity is when your motives are questioned. I think this is a test from the universe.

What Are Bitcoins?

November 20, 2013

Ezra Winter · Business, Technology

Bitcoin Price Nov 2013 Bitcoins have been a very hot topic in the news recently, reaching an all-time high value after a largely positive hearing

Where To From Out

April 29, 2013

Rupert Wondolowski · What Lit

Where To From Out is Chris Mason’s latest charming, informative, deeply human and deeply humane autobiography through his life’s travels. What better way to know a person

Faces of Baltimore

August 30, 2012

Dharna Noor · Art

All photos by DeAngelo Scott – Faces of Baltimore DeAngelo Scott stopped by the What Weekly office on his way to his first college level

The Vigil at MICA

April 7, 2010

Justin Allen & Brooke Hall · Music, Performance

This is why I love Baltimore. You never know when you’ll find outlandish performers in full costume, decked to the nines, wandering the streets outside

Kalen & The Sky Thieves

August 26, 2014

David Leigh Abts & Elizabeth Abts & Kayla Shifter · Music

Photography by Elizabeth Abts. There was something revolutionary and charged about Kalen & the Sky Thieves’ recent show at the Mercury Lounge. Something scene-changing was

Baltimore’s Most Compelling New Label: Grimoire Records

February 17, 2015

Dave K. · Charm City, Music

Cover photo: Dweller in the Valley, photographed by Tyler W. Davis The word grimoire is almost always connected with the occult, but that is a

Ouch!

February 1, 2012

whatweekly · Art

Tonight marks the opening reception of Ouch! a collection of new work by one of Baltimore’s favorite artists. Okan Arabacioglu’s, illustrations have been featured in

Build Little Free Libraries & Build a Community of Books!

December 24, 2012

Peter Jackson · Community

Great literature is built on conflict and unlikely heroes. When the Enoch Pratt Library closed its Charles Village branch in 1997, community members rallied, filing

Thee Oh Sees Premiere Psychedelic New Video :: Drop

April 8, 2014

Nik Oldershaw · Charm City

Between the live shows that could tear a building down and an unrelenting ethic when it comes to releasing new material, Thee Oh Sees have built

Off The Wall: The Walters Hits The Streets

July 9, 2013

Scott Burkholder · Art

“The collection belongs to the people of Baltimore,” says Walters Art Museum Director Emeritus Gary Vikan, when asked why the institution decided to take works from

2012 So Far…

June 21, 2012

David London · Art, Business, Events

As What Weekly prepares to go on vacation next week, it dawned on us that when we return in July, the year will be half

The Tailor at Hour Haus

September 1, 2011

Justin Allen · Artist Profiles, Fashion, Station North

Upon learning that one of the city’s most notable up-and-coming men’s clothiers was staging his fitting room at Hour Haus Studios on North Avenue, a

nightlife

Weekends: Totem

Weekends “Totem” from Friends Records on Vimeo. Weekends: Totem Directed By: Alice Cohen Friends Records…

Mobtown Microshow: Celebration

Murder Ink at Single Carrot Theatre

Celebration “Honeysuckle Blue”

Peace Spore

Comedy Noir

social innovation

Still Occupied

Photo by Larry Cohen This week we catch up with Theresa Keil and Larry Cohen whose lot in life seems…

Crossing Cultural Divides in a Rowboat

Getting Motivated: A Case Study on Creating Impact

The Good Deed Project

Educulture

Malaise and Malaria

artist profiles

Ian Hesford :: Dead and Back Again

The tropes concerning what people see when/after they die are well-worn; bright lights, the spirits of dead relatives, out-of-body experiences…

Bagoas

Mata Ruda

Telesma: Secret Origins

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

A Conversation with Bob Rose

sustainability

Big Green Pirate Party

The Big Green Pirate Party was a fundraiser for Baltimore Green Careers, a Civic Works project that has a kick-ass…

Fixing The Future

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Small Time

Farmageddon

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore