What Weekly Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Seth Sherman

★ Justin Allen
Treating Others

★ Lee Boot
Farewell Double Dagger

★ Valerie Paulsgrove
Aspiration Vacuum

★ Lee Boot
Idea Asteroid

★ Lee Boot
From Russia, With Lace

★ Christopher J. Rondo
Solar Solipsis

★ Dharna & Valerie Paulsgrove
"Hi" Art

★ Brooke Hall & Justin Allen
Gold Rush Gala

★ tristan & BreckJones
Ultimate Block Party

★ Brooke Hall & Justin Allen

★ Cover Story

RIP “Blaster” Al Ackerman

March 21, 2013

Adam Robinson · Baltimore Reader, What Lit

“Blaster” Al Ackerman died on Sunday. He was a general in Baltimore’s literary avant garde—though it occurs to me that assigning…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

Inward, Outward: Ugly American

August 1, 2013

Jeff Brunell · Inward And Outward

My wet backpack and its cool new smell snapped my cheap tranquility, and I decided that I’d be miserable for the afternoon if I didn’t

Please Flag With Care

September 16, 2010

Matt Kelley · Performance

In 'Please Flag With Care,' Glass Mind Theatre Company shows everyday characters employing the Internet to search for greater meaning and purpose in their lives

Natural’s Not In It

April 10, 2013

Deirdre Smith · Art, Art Criticism

Deirdre Smith on Lisa Dillin’s Stopgap, at Gallery Four Visitors to the opening night of Lisa Dillin’s solo show, Stopgap found Gallery Four inhabited by

CityLit Festival 2010

April 22, 2010

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Charm City

We went to the CityLit Festival mostly because of our curiousity about City Sages: Baltimore. The book is an ambitious undertaking by editor Jen Michalski

Fiction: 2 Stories by Meg Pokrass

February 21, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

By Meg Pokrass Keds I had a strange awake-dream during labor. It started with Barney, checking out holes in my Keds. Suggesting they were a

Shodekeh at The Meyerhoff

January 12, 2011

What Weekly · Nightlife, Video

Shodekeh at the Meyerhoff from TuffNerd Productions on Vimeo.

Top 5 Events :: March 13th

March 12, 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

Top 5 Events :: March 7th

March 2, 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

The One That Ran Away

October 5, 2011

Jordan Sondler · Love

Once I had a big crush on a guy for a really long time. All of a sudden he stopped talking to me for seemingly no

Support the Slumlord Project

June 12, 2013

Nether · Community, Film, Street Art

Support This Project at Indiegogo Using radical methods, our project will unite three forces to catalyze discussion of Baltimore’s vacancy problem and how to

Fiction: Ringo Starr is a Beautiful Man by Dave K.

May 2, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

When our dog died, my dad told us he would get another dog for the house. My brother Pete had a whole list of names

Top 5 Events :: April 24th, 2014

April 24, 2014

Gatsby · Charm City

Top 5 Events (in no particular order) Each week we bring you the goodness. Submit your event to our calendar if you’d like to see yourself here!

FritzBall!!!

September 20, 2012

Philip Laubner & Theresa Keil & Larry Cohen · Charm City, Events, Photo Essay

Photo by Philip Laubner Behold the rapturous joy on the faces of those celebrating the life and times of the one and only, Kyle

Insane Video of Liquid Freezing and Boiling Simultaneously

April 4, 2014

Nik Oldershaw · Charm City

This video is crazy, guano even, I half expected the flask to glow and implode like the house at the end of Poltergeist. It’s experiments

Ode to the Bazaar

September 21, 2011

Lee Boot · Who We Am

Just off the main street in the part of Istanbul where you'll also find Hagia Sophia and the Blue Masque, you enter the Grand Bazaar

Soldiers Find Healing Through Art

February 20, 2015

Emily Kohlenstein · Art, Artist Profiles

From music therapy and acupuncture to therapy dogs and yoga, there are alternative ways to cope with trauma that are becoming more mainstream. Today, there

scapescape

September 6, 2012

Kevin Chesser & Theresa Keil · Events, Music, Photo Essay

Scapescape took place this past Labor Day weekend, filling the Station North Arts & Entertainment District with over 70 of the city’s most vital and well-loved