This is a very full weekend in Baltimore and beyond. There’s great music all over the area including Shovels and Rope and Ivan Nevilles Dumpstaphunk. There’s a good bye party and parade, it’s Maryland Day, and if that wasn’t enough – the Cherry Blossoms are blooming. Find out what’s happening this weekend by listening to…
This weekend, break out your pompoms and megaphones and try out for the Ravens cheerleading squad, catch the acerbic wit of John Stewart at the Meyerhoff, catch a cool aerial show at the Baltimore Theater Project at Mt. Vernon, and show us your….fur?….as the Patterson Theater in Highlandtown hosts the comedy canine/human team Mutts Gone…
This morning, Vinny Perrone, one of the filmakers behind the new documentary on the Nation’s Capital’s lost rock club, The Bayou joined me. The Bayou: DC’s killer joint airs on Maryland Public Televsion tonight at 9pm. The somewhat tucked-away club under an elevated Georgetown overpass holds many memories for Baltimoreans, who often made the trek…
This week, buy some high-end crafts at the Convention Center- or at least pretend you are, sample some home-brewed beer at the EMP Collective, find out what it’s like to be a sports mascot and catch the legendary leader of the Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman in Hampden! For more, click here. WOTR_022113_ED_RICHMAN
For the cure to your Super Bowl hangover, I ask you this: what’s more American than football? CARS! Yep, so many of them at the Convention Center this weekend, in fact, that you may come facet to face with your dream set of wheels. Or if you want to EAT your way out of your…
It’s a Super Baltimore weekend! Get a preview of one of the Baltimore Band Block Party participants in Fed Hill (before it goes nuts Sunday night), go green and enjoy some good vegetarian grub in Mt. Washington and embarrass yourself with your silly singing skills at Cafe Hon (where Landis Expandis is back at the…
This weekend, catch live comedy without a net with Baltimore Improv’s Unscripted. It finally feels like January, as Baltimore has plunged into 14 degree weather. What better way to celebrate than to hurl yourself into the Chesapeake Bay? It’s Polar Bear Plunge time again, and while diving into sub-zero waters might not be your cup…
This weekend as we get ready for Football from Foxboro, get a jump start to the 2013 baseball season as Orioles Fanfest lands once again at the Convention Center, lend to a hand to another member of Baltimore tribal-rock band Telesma’s family who suffered a heart-attack, look for the tracks of Smokey Robinson’s tears at…
This week, we break Rule #2 and talk about the Elvis Fight Club at the Creative Alliance, catch a rare glimpse of one of Baltimore’s best bands, Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, see Jim Gaffigan wax philosophical about Hot Pockets and catch gophers at the Baltimore Golf Show. For more, click here. WOTR_011013_ED_ELVISFIGHTCLUB
This weekend, learn to sketch nude artists or become one yourself at the Wind-Up Space, catch one of alternative music’s godfathers, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, at the Ottobar, and if you need to make a frantic purchase, there’s the City Paper’s Last Minute Gift Show. More on these events here and be sure to…
A monumental occasion in Mt. Vernon “officially” kicks off the holiday season in Baltimore, Symphony Woods in Columbia transforms into a Symphony of Lights, sock monkeys rule at AVAM, Robert Cray brings his contemporary blues to Rams Head Live, & John Travolta returns to Baltimore, but this time, it’s back on the big screen with…
In the decade that gave us the Seattle Scene, British electronic dance acts like The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers, not to mention Beck (a category unto himself), comes lots of artists who didn’t get quite the acclaim, but should have. On this week’s, Total Recall, Bob the Paper Guy give us his list of…
This week, more cool events than you can shake a peanut butter and banana sandwich at! Elvis’ birthday isn’t for another month, but The King is taking over Charm City this weekend. Elvis impersonators from all over the world are invading Luithuanian Hall for Night of 100 Elvises, and The King, The Killer, The Man…
This week, Anthony Bourdain comes to the Hippodrome and of course he has “No Reservations” about the food scene here, wine lovers geek out at the Beaujolais Nuevo premiere, art lovers break out their magnifying glasses in Bethesda and Dan Deacon gets down in DC. For event details, click here. And you can hear the…
This weekend, head to MICA and ask John Travolta to do his best Bawlmer’ accent and John Waters whether the Sweathog or Divine was a better Edna Turnblad, get into the St. Patty’s spirit early & rock out to Black 47 & more at the Timonium Fairgrounds and see Girls With Guitars (including Leann Rimes)…
Time to count our blessings and get ready for a post-Sandy wild weekend! See precious stones and metals come to life at The Walters, watch a holdover Halloween classic movie starring Gene Wilder at the Charles, enjoy gourmet, nearly reality show-winning grub with a die of camp in Frederick, and catch the master of his…
