Thursday, 7/3

• WTMD First Thursday: Grizfolk, Canton Waterfront, 6 p.m.

Friday, 7/4:

• AVAM Parade of Pets, American Visionary Art Museum, 10 a.m.

Saturday, 7/5:

• Let the Monkey Go, Ram's Head Live, 8 p.m.

Sunday, 7/6:

• Gardening Class, Rawlings Conservatory, 1:30 p.m.
• The Metzingers, Ottobar, 6:30 p.m.

Weekend on the Radio Recap: 'Merica Edition

Happy birthday, America!  Take it, Sly!

The moral: You don't need fancy equipment to defeat the USSR, you just need snow, a sled, and Burt Young.

All Weekend Long:

• Antique Toy Show, Maryland State Fairgrounds, check website for details 
• African American Festival, M&T Bank Stadium, check website for details  

Thursday, 7/4:

• WTMD First Thursday, Mt. Vernon, 5:30 p.m.
• Visionary Pets on Parade, AVAM, 10 a.m.
• Towson Fourth of July Parade, Downtown Towson, 10 a.m.
• Oregon Ridge Star Spangled Spectacular, Oregon Ridge, 8 p.m.
• July 4th Pier Party, National Aquarium, 7 p.m.

Friday, 7/5:

• Little Italy Film Festival: Moonstruck, Little Italy, 7 p.m. 
• Delta Nine, Metro Gallery, 9 p.m.

Saturday, 7/6:

• Delta Nine, Metro Gallery, 10 p.m. 

Weekend On the Radio

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 a.m. 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. It's the Fourth of July, so celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing up a small part of it, with fireworks that is. In case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

• Picnic at the Top, Top of the World Observation Deck, 7 to 10 p.m.


• Ports America Fourth of July Celebration, Inner Harbor, 4 p.m.


• Star Spangled Spectacular, Oregon Ridge, 8 p.m. (Also Saturday & Sunday)


• The Glorious Fourth: An Old Fashioned Fourth of July, Fort McHenry, noon to 4 p.m.


• July 4th Pier Party, National Aquarium, 7 to 10 p.m.


• Visionary Pets on Parade, American Visionary Arts Musuem, 10 a.m.

ALL WEEKEND LONG:

• Dundalk Heritage Fair, Heritage Park, noon to 10 p.m.


• African American Festival, M&T Bank Stadium, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, noon to 9 p.m. Sunday


• Loss And Consequences: The Drunk Driving Project, MICA

Thursday, 6/30:

• The Castleton Festival: An Evening of Music Inspired by Shakespeare, Music Center at Strathmore, 8 p.m.


• Sondheim Artscape Prize: Finalist Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art
  

Friday, 7/1:

• Little Italy Film Festival: Moonstruck, Little Italy, 7 p.m.