Weekend on the Radio: 7/12

All Weekend Long:

• Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Load of Fun, check website for details
• Bridges Art Show, Towson Center for the Arts, check website for details
• Baltimore Caribbean Festival, Clifton Park, check website for details
• The Garden in Islamic and Christian Art, The Walters, check website for details

Thursday, 7/12:

• Flicks From the Hill: Spaceballs, American Visionary Art Museum, 9 p.m.
• Roger Waters, The Wall,  Verizon Center, 8 p.m.
• Robin Bullock, Baldwin Station, 8 p.m.
• An Evening of Sweaty Eyeballs, Creative Alliance, 8 p.m.
• A Parade of P

Friday, 7/13:

• A Parade of Perversion: A Burlesque Tribute to John Waters. The Wind-Up Space,  9 p.m/

   
Saturday, 7/14

• The BSO at Oregon Ridge, Oregon Ridge Park, 8 p.m.

Weekend On the Radio Recap

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 and 8:20 a.m., Sam Gallant of the Creative Alliance shares with you all the cool happenings around town on Weekend on the Radio. In case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week.

Thursday, 10/7

WTMD First Thursday with Hoots & Hellmouth and the Herd of Main Street in West Mt. Vernon Park, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, 10/8

"What Makes Us Smile" opening party featuring pop artist Gary Panter and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. American Visionary Art Museum, 8 p.m.

Mt. Vernon Ghost Walk, meet at the Owl Bar in Fells Point at 7 p.m. (also on Saturday)

Saturday, 10/9

Bolton Hill Fall Festival, Bolton Street from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Station North Fall Music Festival, featuring Soul Cannon, Jennifer Knapp and Holy Ghost Tent. On the streets around North Avenue and Charles Street from 2 to 9 p.m.

Sunday, 10/10

Roger Waters performing The Wall at the Verizon Center, 7 p.m.

St. Bartholomew Apple Festival, St. Bartholomew's Church 12-2 p.m.

The Lunatics Are On the (Infield) Grass?

Word just came out today that Pink Floyd mastermind Roger Waters will co-headline this year's Coachella Festival in Cali along with Jack Johnson. Wow!

I saw Roger at the, now demolished Cap Center in 1987 for one of the most memorable shows of my life.

He was touring in support of his RADIO K.A.O.S album, and only around 5,000 people were at the arena (it held around 20,000).

So, I felt like I was holding the world's best kept secret when the man who wrote just about all the lyrics and certainly conceptualized DARK SIDE and THE WALL, and said he would NOT play any Floyd tunes, suddenly broke out the cash register effects and launched into MONEY- by far, one of the great concert moments in my life!

Now that Roger is hip to the festival circuit, here's a thought: Roger at V Fest 2008! The giant, inflatable pig, the light show and all the necessary Floyd ingredients would work quite well at Pimlico. Keep your hammers crossed!