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★ Cover Story

Operation Oliver

September 21, 2011

whatweekly · Social Innovation

“Baltimore is the safest city I’ve lived in for the last 10 years.” That is my first response to anyone…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Mobtown Moon

September 5, 2012

David London · Events, Music

For the past two years, a large scale musical collaboration has been taking place in Baltimore. Led by the respected writer and musician Sandy Asirvatham in collaboration

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

Travels with Jack Radcliffe: Michele Li Murphy

July 1, 2015

Philip Laubner · Artist Profiles, Essays, Photo Essay

Photographer Jack Radcliffe and I like to talk when we travel, so I flipped on the GPS to think for us and didn’t notice that

Big Body Paint Improv Show

February 2, 2011

whatweekly & Theresa Keil · Performance

Combinations. Some of the greatest things in our society come in combinations: Milkshakes, Jack and coke, peanut butter and jelly, Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop,

Ascending Beyond Meru with Sundance Film Festival Award Winner :: Renan Ozturk

February 2, 2015

Ivan Petrov & Isaiah Williams · Art, Festival, Film

Photos by Isaiah Williams During the creative process, you can’t always anticipate how events will unfold. This is an important lesson I learned from my recent

Poetry: 3 By Jessica Lynn Dotson

June 6, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

Church of the Penny Poker Redeemer I learned to read a man’s bluff stacking pennies, pushing the ante forward and fanning out my cards. Some

The Resurrection Show

July 19, 2012

David London & Philip Laubner & Theresa Keil · Community, Music

   Ian Hesford – Photo by Philip Laubner  Joanne Juskus – Photo by Philip Laubner  Jason Sage – Photo by Philip Laubner It was almost exactly

Spontaneity vs. Planning :: Advice on Baltimore Dating

January 15, 2014

Charmed and Dangerous · Charm City

Advice on Baltimore Dating from Charmed & Dangerous

Jason Urick: Ageless Isms

January 25, 2012

whatweekly · Music, Video

Jason Urick – Ageless Isms from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo. Video by Ashby Lee Collinson. Ashby’s Princess Dies series is raising funds for a

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 Tubman’s legacy of returning time

Poetry: news by Jared T. Fischer

May 16, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

news we don’t give ourselves enough credit for not being violent: old lady in the library reading tolstoy; the family of three in eddie’s picking

AKIMBO

September 13, 2012

Ally Otte · Events, Performance

Akimbo, literally means the position of having the hands on the hip and the elbows turned outward, though, the Akimbo I am talking about contorts

Which Way for the Parkway?

June 6, 2012

Cassie Paton & Brooke Hall & Piper Watson · Station North

Photo by Piper Watson Station North’s Parkway Theatre continues on its uncertain path as three bidders on the property hope to be chosen for its

Top 5 Events :: March 26th, 2014

March 26, 2014

Ezra Winter · Charm City

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

Introducing WhoWeAm on What Weekly

February 23, 2011

Lee Boot · Who We Am

WhoWeAm is a series of short films and articles exploring the notion that the world we create reflects a tangle of our biology, and the

Conversations on Theater

July 13, 2011

Peter Davis · Performance

I go to the theater. I sometimes get to make theater. I think about how store front theater is different from community theater. I apply

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

fashion

Otakon 2011

Once again Baltimore’s annual Otakon Convention summoned a bevy of of eager practitioners of Otaku make-believe. This curious culture of…

The Littlest Fashion Truck Ever

Giordano’s Giant Nudes

Panoptic Fashion Show- MICA

Smart Textiles

La Cakerie

nightlife

Mobtown Microshow: Celebration

Story by Brett Yale of Bmore Musically Informed. Last Thursday’s Microshow was a spiritually intimate performance by Celebration, one of…

Infernoland

New Year’s Eve 2010

The Death Set: Slap Slap…

Brian Baker

Cameron Blake Double Album Release

social innovation

PNC Transformative Art

PNC Bank has made a major commitment to Baltimore, and their name as well as proof of their financial investments…

Warnock Foundation Survey Finds Hope Amongst Baltimoreans

The Good Deed Project

Malaise and Malaria

Occupy Everywhere

788 Washington Blvd.

artist profiles

Shawn Theron

We’ve all heard people speak on the subject of changing the world or doing something to make the world a…

Cara Ober

MilkMilkLemonade

Fashion Photographer Sean Scheidt

Soldiers Find Healing Through Art

Shane Burke

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…

Baltimore Free Farm

Farmageddon

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Fixing The Future

Small Time

technology

Let There Be Transit

Baltimore has plenty of fire. Fire for crime, for housing, for jobs. This past weekend the fire focused on transit,…

Betamore

Common Curriculum Launch

Create Baltimore, Take 2

Pure Bang Games

Get Pixilated