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★ Cover Story

Mobtown Murder Mystery

July 27, 2011

Brooke Hall & Theresa Keil · Performance

Fluid Movement Strikes Again Film Noir has never been so wet By Brooke Hall Photos by Theresa Keil Director Jobi…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Oddities and Corn Rows

August 10, 2011

David Warfield & Glenford Nunez · Film

This is a Grimm’s tale run amok, this is ROWS the movie. We’re now at DAY 7 of shooting, and though I have been writing

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire :: Movie Review

December 4, 2013

Dan Gvozden · Film

On its surface, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire improves on the original The Hunger Games in just about every way.  The film’s bigger budget allows it to fill in

Tailor Made Cocktails

January 23, 2013

Christopher J. Rondo · Fashion As I See It, Food

There comes a point when that new beer of the moment has lost its luster, the wine list just isn’t doing it, and the results

Jordan Faye at Scope

November 10, 2011

whatweekly · Art

No one can deny that Jordan Faye Block is one of the hardest working art dealer's in the city today. Fresh off of a successful

The Baltimore Zoo Through the Lens of Fall Libations

November 23, 2014

Chuck Green · Commentary, Food

  Baltimore has a zoo! I almost forgot. I definitely went there when I was a kid. I was riding my bike past it one

Telesma: Secret Origins

December 23, 2014

Tom Swiss & Philip Laubner · Artist Profiles, Events, Music

In a world where overproduced music is targeted more and more narrowly at marketing demographics, Telesma has remained true to their own unique vision. And

The Last Dance – and Why it Needs to Slow its Roll

May 7, 2014

Heather Clark · Commentary

Ah, summer. As it sits enticingly on the horizon, our nation’s future sits in stuffy high school classrooms and dreams of a juicy three-month block

Spring League Softball

April 18, 2012

Barbara Wilgus & Philip Laubner · Community, Sports

Spring League Softball: Mobtown Beatdown versus Sir Lord Baltimores Author Michael Kimball has been called a lot of things, from “a hero of contemporaryfiction” [Sam

Give It Up! Party

January 27, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen & Philip Laubner · Charm City

Burner culture lands in the heart of Station North with Evolver Baltimore’s party ‘Give It Up!’ where the spirit of giving was alive and kicking

The Baltimore Textbook

December 19, 2012

David London · Literature

  The Baltimore Textbook was a senior thesis project by Becky Slogeris, which “attempts to connect Baltimore youth with their local environment, including lessons on

Artscape 2011

July 20, 2011

Justin Allen & Philip Laubner & Theresa Keil · Art, Music, Performance

Photo by Philip Laubner Every year Artscape draws too many people to count to the city of Baltimore. People come here to experience the spectacle

Baltimore Folk Fest 2013

November 12, 2013

whatweekly · Music, Photo Essay

The Baltimore Folk Fest is shaping up to be one the premier annual music festivals in the city and here’s the photo essay to prove

Serge Salat: Beyond Infinity

January 31, 2012

whatweekly · Art, Video

This immersive installation by french artist and theorist serge salat interweaves mirrors, light, music, and fractal art in an architecture that conflates visitors' perceptions of

Romantic States

January 12, 2012

whatweekly · Music

Enjoy these tracks from Baltimore’s Romantic States’ rare bootleg, Come Over To My House. The entire album can be listened to and downloaded for free

Heather Joi at Dougherty’s Pub

May 13, 2010

whatweekly · Art

It’s First Thursday in Mount Vernon at Dougherty’s Pub and opening night for artist Heather Joi, the prolific artist filled the entire 60 ft wall

Brooks Kossover – Artist Profile

January 15, 2014

Jenn Danzig & Tedd Henn · Photo Essay

Recent MICA graduate Brooks Kossover has found success by painting oil portraits of popular musicians, a rich tradition in post-sixties American painting.  We enjoyed taking

TRINADOT at Small Press Expo

September 3, 2014

Daniel Stuelpnagel · Literature

To refer to artist Melody Often’s distinctively orchestrated visual arsenal as “style” is to damn, with faint praise, the poetic synthesis she brings to TRINADOT,

fashion

Photo by McKenzie Elizabeth Ditter

The Star of Mobile Thrifting: STACEY CHAMBERS

Stacey Chambers. With her lovable bear hugs, palm-searing high fives, and gestures as animated as a plate-spinning juggler, she puts…

Otakon 2011

From Russia, With Lace

Panoptic Fashion Show- MICA

The Littlest Fashion Truck Ever

Smart Textiles

nightlife

Sound and Fury Signifying… Oscar.

The Oscars are silly but I love them anyway, so here’s my contribution to the water cooler discourse. I would…

The Death Set: Slap Slap…

Bent Ear

Boite: Show and Tell

New Year’s Eve 2010

Mobtown Microshow: Celebration

social innovation

Peace Spore

Blood soaked Vietnam draft papers, peace mantras, deep ethical questions that might never be answered discussed during a no-holds-barred forum…

Living my Dream in Cherry Hill

Elf Night

From Here To There

Come Home Baltimore

What is a Tool Library?

artist profiles

Barbarellesque

Are you living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility? Do you believe in angels? Is your energy box completely…

A Brief Conversation with Abdu Ali

Clifton Futch

Interactions at Minás

Parallel Practice at the BMA

Alex Hacker

sustainability

Small Time

A couple of years ago, while I was reporting on a redevelopment plan in Buffalo, New York, I met up…

Fixing The Future

Welcome to the Free Farm

Farmageddon

Big Green Pirate Party

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore