Urban Discoveries Baltimore

After last weekend’s weather, I’d welcome anything, but the forecast actually looks strong for a few pleasant, partially outdoors days of autumn this week. If you do nothing else, then at least spend an hour on the porch with a cup of coffee, enjoying the leaves’ photogenic death. If, however, you’re a little more ambitious, [...]

Seeing this week marked the birthday of X-Files creator, Chris Carter, it seems appropriate to celebrate with several events honoring issues peripherally relevant to the classic series:
1. Renowned science nerd, Jonah Lehrer will speak at the Walters Art Museum in Mt. Vernon (600 N. Charles Street) on Wednesday, October 16th at 6:00 p.m. Lehrer writes popular [...]

My girlfriend believes that if a holiday is worth observing at all, then it’s worth drawing out over a couple weeks. Maybe she’s right. Halloween’s still most of a month away, but of all holidays, this is the one most suited to Baltimore (okay, aside from Defenders’ Day), so let’s get properly warmed up. I’d [...]

Autumn is upon us, Baltimore, and like the middle age it so often represents in poetry, the season is rich with (charming, doomed) attempts to outrun Time’s winged chariots. This week, we’ve got two new seasonal rites and one adolescent one. Compensatory details below:
1.    The first and hopefully annual Baltimore Beer Week taps its inaugural [...]

Feel the bite hidden deep in that gust of balmy late September air? That’s your inability for the next six months to go outside without wincing. Carpe early autumn, Baltimore, and enjoy the capricious outdoors while you can. Three ways to do so:
1. Free Fall Baltimore starts Thursday. The annual city-wide harvest cheapening ritual means loads [...]

For those Baltimoreans not tied up this week with Ramadan or Rosh Hashanah, there are a few nerdily specific things going on. Not many, but all of quality. Happy ritual self-purification, everybody else.
1. The Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper presents the easily misinterpreted Trash Bash ’09 at Nick’s Fish House {www.nicksfishhouse.com} in the Inner Harbor (2600 Insulator Drive). [...]

Upcoming Events – Weekend of 9/11
Fall is the most nostalgic time of year, and it’s about to start in earnest. So, between feverish bouts of planning and hopeless attempts to clutch onto the moment, set a little time aside this week to remember what’s already gone. A few suggestions:
1. The Strand Theatre {www.strandtheatercompany.org} in [...]

Workers of Baltimore, relax. Labor Day’s upon us, and in honor of this national celebration of compensated effort, not much is happening. So, catch up on your reading, your drinking, or your calisthenics, and if you get a chance, check out one of the following things:
1. This is the last weekend you’ll be able to see [...]

There are certain skills I’d never care to master––fire juggling, stamp collecting, dressing in drag––but that doesn’t mean I don’t love watching other people pull them off deftly. This week’s events provide a few such opportunities. So ready your standoffish admiration and read on.
Starting Thursday, September 3, the 29th annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show claims [...]