WHAT WEEKLY

★ Cover Story

Araminta Freedom Initiative

January 3, 2013

David London & Theresa Keil · Social Innovation

The name Araminta, which means “defender,” was Harriet Tubman’s given name as a child slave in Maryland.  In honor of…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Saint Harridan in Baltimore :: The Suits You’ve Been Waiting For

February 12, 2014

Amanda Fortner · Fashion

  Last month, clothing company Saint Harridan arrived at the Embassy Suites in the Inner Harbor on the Baltimore leg of its nationwide pop-up tour, bringing

FritzBall

August 20, 2012

David London · Events

Click here to purchase tickets:     “Best Party of the Year!”  -WYPR’s Aaron Henkin’s comment about our last party! After years in the making,

February Literature Roundup

February 6, 2013

Adam Robinson · Baltimore Reader, What Lit

It’s February and when it’s February I always think of Shane Jones’s imaginative book Light Boxes, in which the month is personified as a malevolent,

Hidden Netflix :: Soldiers of Paint

February 12, 2014

Dan Gvozden · Charm City, Film

All is fair in love and war, especially with paintballs.

Getting Lit

September 14, 2011

Gregg Wilhelm & Theresa Keil & Matt Kelley · Charm City

The Baltimore Book Festival is next weekend~ September 23-25! *The photos were taken at last year’s Book Festival by Theresa Keil and Matt Kelley. Given

One Love

August 30, 2012

Jess Gartner · Art, Events, Photo Essay

For the past several years, The Baltimore Love Project artist, Michael Owen, and executive director, Scott Burkholder,  have been working to spread the love in Baltimore by

Inward, Outward: Hello Mumbai

June 27, 2013

Jeff Brunell · Inward And Outward

Longtime townie Jeff Brunell finally returned to school just before turning thirty. He’s in southern India, completing his graduate field work and taking stock. These

Small Foods

March 7, 2012

Justin Allen · Food

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

Film by Dan Deacon & Jimmy Joe Roche

May 11, 2011

What Weekly · Music, Video

"Hilvarenbeek," a film. Composer Dan Deacon and filmmaker Jimmy Joe Roche go wild with heavily armed Dutch crazies in "Hilvarenbeek." As seen in IFC."

Transportation Infrastructure Now

April 16, 2013

Justin Allen · Innovation, Social Innovation

Note from the editor: Keeping in line with our mission, What Weekly advocates for transit and transportation infrastructure projects that will provide economic development opportunities

Baltimore In Motion

December 22, 2011

whatweekly · Film

Beautiful time lapse film shot over 80 days in Baltimore. If anyone knows who composed the music please let us know.

Jack White’s Awesome New Instrumental :: High Ball Stepper

April 3, 2014

Kelly Louise Barton · Music

Some might suggest Jack White has rescinded his relevancy since the disbanding of The White Stripes, (and while I might want to personally make sure

Wake Up With Full Of Hell :: Fox Womb

April 15, 2014

Nik Oldershaw · Charm City

Guzzle down your coffee and kick your day off right with this crushing video from Maryland natives Full of Hell. Feeling undervalued at work? Boss

An Interview with author Michael Kimball

March 25, 2013

Adam Robinson · Baltimore Reader, What Lit

Michael Kimball’s new book is called Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (On a Postcard). It’s fresh out from Mud Luscious Press, and it is what

Beach House at 2640

May 13, 2010

Philip Laubner · Music

Here we see Beach House. Baltimore’s Dream pop Duo, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, joined by drummer Daniel Franz, underneath a sky of mylar diamonds

Meet the Kids at Digital Harbor Foundation

December 2, 2014

Philip Laubner & Kelly Louise Barton · Innovation, Technology

All photos by Philip Laubner In what used to be a South West Baltimore rec center now resides Digital Harbor Foundation. The foundation, among plenty

Welcome to the Free Farm

August 16, 2012

Dharna Noor · Hampden, Sustainability

All photos by David London Nestled just blocks from The Avenue in Hanpden is a leafy utopia known as the Baltimore Free Farm. Until recently, the

fashion

The Tailor at Hour Haus

Upon learning that one of the city’s most notable up-and-coming men’s clothiers was staging his fitting room at Hour Haus…

The Happy Hatter of Waverly

Giordano’s Giant Nudes

Fashion’s Night Out

Charm City Fashion Show at BMI

In Good Fashion: Form The Label

social innovation

Malaise and Malaria

The big hope for Westerners in the past few centuries was the idea that things would just keep getting better…

The Merchants of Dissonance

Let’s Mess With Texas

Create Baltimore, Take 2

“Hi” Art

Let There Be Transit

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

Baltimore Free Farm

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Small Time

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore