Weekend on the Radio Recap: Fried Butter Edition

Yes, friends it's that time of year again.  We here at Weekend on the Radio savor the final hazy days of summer by shoving whatever we can into a deep fat fryer.  That's right Baltimore, it's time for the Maryland State Fair, the only place where it is socially acceptable to wash down a gargantuan turkey leg with a deep-fried Ding Dong.  Personally, I'm holding out for a deep-fried Chocodile.  That would be boss.

All Weekend Long

• Maryland State Fair, Timonium Fairgrounds, check website for details
• Maryland Renaissance Festival, Revel Grove, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Cirque De Soliel, First Mariner Arena, check website for details
• The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, Baltimore Convention Center, check website for details
• Arts in the Park, Cromwell Valley Park, check website for details

Thursday, 8/22:

• One Love, Creative Alliance, 6 p.m. 
• Ravens vs. Jaguars, M&T Bank Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, 8/24:

• 1812 Memorial Grand Opening, Bladensburg Waterfront Park, 10 a.m. 

Weekend on the Radio: Pop-punk edition

This week we relive our middle school years with the Queers and Agent Orange at the Recher, turn public property into art at The Walters, and watch tough punk rock girls bash into each other at The DuBurns Arena

All Weekend Long

• Aquarium Birthday Celebration, Baltimore Aquarium, check website for details
• Public Property, Walters Art Gallery, check website for details

Thursday, 8/9:

• Flicks From the Hill: The Triplets of Belleville, American Visionary Art Museum, 9 p.m

Friday, 8/10:

• Bingo for Breast Cancer, Tall Ceders Hall, 6 to 11 p.m. 

Saturday, 8/11:

• Charm City Roller Girls vs. Garden State Roller Girls, DuBurns Arena, 6:30 p.m. 
• Caleb Stein and the Honey Dew Drops, Creative Alliance, 8 p.m. 

Weekend on the Radio: Astro Boy Edition

This week, we dress up like Cowboy Bebop at Otakon, check out the hot-rods at the Hamilton Street Festival and celebrate Baltimore's gastronomic achievements for Baltimore Restaurant Week

All Weekend Long

• Otakon, Baltimore Convention Center, check website for details
• Baltimore Restaurant Week, various restaurants around Baltimore, check website for details

Thursday, 7/26:

• SOJA,  Ram's Head Live, 8 p.m. 
• The BSO presents the music of Michael Jackson, Pier 6, 6:30 p.m.
• Locovore Beer Tasting, Gertrude's, 6 p.m.

Friday, 7/27:

• Orioles vs. Oakland Athletics, Camden Yards, 7 p.m. 
• The BSO presents the music of Led Zeppelin, Pier 6, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, 7/28:

• Hamilton Street Festival, downtown Hamilton, check website for details 
• Liverpool vs. Tottenham, M&T Bank Stadium, 1 p.m.

Weekend on the Radio: Batton Down the Hatches edition

This week, we brace ourselves for Charm City's biggest street festival, revel in the poetry of The Bard in an outdoor setting, try to avoid folding chairs at Impact Wrestling and take our significant others out for some dancing, Brazillian style

All Weekend Long

• Artscape, Mt. Royal and Charles St., check website for details 
• Shakespeare in the Meadow, Evergreen Musuem, check website for details
• Grease, Toby's Dinner Theatre, check website for details

Thursday, 7/19:

• Worst Trivia Ever, Village Learning Place, 8 p.m.
• Shawn Colvin, Birchmere, 7:30 p.m.
• Purple Bingo, M&T Bank Stadium,6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, 7/20:

• Impact Wrestling Basebrawl, Ripken Stadium, 7 p.m. 

Saturday, 7/21:

• Brazillian Forro Dance Party, Creative Alliance, 7:30 p.m. 

 Sunday, 7/22:

• Hot Chip/Sleigh Bells, Merriweather Post Pavilion, 6 p.m.  

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

All Weekend Long:

• Farmfest 2012: Farmageddon, The Carney Farm, 1 p.m. Saturday- 10 a.m. Sunday 
• Baltimore African American Festival, M&T Bank Stadium, noon 

Friday, 7/6:

•  Little Italy Film Festival: Moonstruck, Little Italy, 7 p.m.  
• Feet on the Street, downtown Towson, 6 p.m. 

Sunday, 7/8:

• Furthur, Merriweather Post Pavilion, 5:30 p.m.
• Coldplay, Verizon Center, 7 p.m.

Weekend on the Radio: Deaf, Dumb and Blind Edition

This week, we head down to the Towson Farmer's Market to enjoy the summer produce, hear, see, feel and touch the machines at the Baltimore Pinball Museum, and try not to get the Zelda theme stuck in our heads at the Bit Gen Gamer Festival.

All Weekend Long:

• Growing up AFRO, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, regular museum hours

Thursday, 6/28

• Towson Farmer's Market, downtown Towson, 11 a.m. to 3 p m

Friday, 6/29:

• Tim Kinder Book Signing, Atomic Books, 7 p.m.
•   Really Big Show, Creative Alliance, 7 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, 6/30:

• Bit-Gen Gamer Festival, Sonar, 4 p.m.

Sunday, 7/1:

• The Jacksons, Lyric Opera House, 8 p.m.
•   Fells Point Food Tour, Fells Point, check website for details

Weekend on the Radio Recap

This week, Baltimore and DC food trucks collide, The Columbia Arts Festival celebrates its 25rh anniversary.  Earth Wind and Fire take us to Boogie Wonderland, and Aziz Ansari invades the Meyerhoff with some dangerously delicious comedy stylings.

All Weekend Long:

• Columbia Arts Festival, various places around Columbia, check website for details 
• Frederick Film Festival, Weinberg Center for the Arts, check website for details
• Latino Fest, Patterson Park, check website for details
• Paul Mooney, Baltimore Comedy Factory, check website for details
• Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Showcase, Baltimore Museum of Art, during museum hours

Thursday, 6/21:

• Earth, Wind and Fire, Pier 6, 7 p.m. 

Friday, 6/22:

• Aziz Ansari, Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 7:30 p.m.
•   Steven Wright, Warner Theater, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, 6/23:

• Catholic Charities Dragon Boat Races, Inner Harbor, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
• A Taste of Two Cities, Westport Waterfront, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Weekend on the Radio Recap: Bouffant Hair Edition

This week we celebrate Baltimore's tall-haired stereotypes at HonFest, take in an equine-based spectical at Apassionata, celebrate the season at First Thursday and pump up the jams at Starscape.  Remember Baltimore, the rhythm is a dancer.

All Weekend Long:

• Honfest, Hamden, check website for details
• Apasionnata, First Mariner Arena, check website for details
• School of Rock, Ottobar, 3 p.m. Saturday; noon Sunday
• Carnival Science Days, Maryland Science Center, noon to 4 p.m.
• Ocean City Air Show, Ocean City, check website for details
• Elk Run Jazz Festival, Elk Run Winery, noon to 5 p.m.

Thursday, 6/7:

• WTMD First Thursday featuring Black Box Revelation; J.C. Brooks and the Uptown Sound; 7Horse, Mt. Vernon Park, 5 p.m. 
• 15 Billion Years of the Traveling Atom, Maryland Art Place, 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, 6/8:

• Manitoba; The Biters, Ottobar, 8 p.m. 

Saturday, 6/9:

• Starscape, Fort Armistead Park, 2 p.m.
• Tilted Torch, Creative Alliance, 9 p.m. 

Weekend on the Radio Recap: Fake Plastic Trees Edition

This week, we hang out with Bacchus at Oregon Ridge's Great Grapes festival, enjoy the calm before the storm of Senior Week, bid for a piece of Sowebo history at the Sowebo Poster Auction, take in some smooth jazz at Merriweather Post and marvel at Thom Yorke's herky-jerky movements at the Verizon Center.

All Weekend Long:

• Great Grapes Wine and Food Festival, Oregon Ridge, noon to 6 p.m.
• Capital Jazz Fest, Merriweather Post Pavilion, check website for details
• Ravens Beach Bash, Various places around Ocean City, check website for details

Friday, 6/1:

• Soulful Symphony, Hippodrome, 8 p.m. 

Saturday. 6/2:

• Super-Duper Flea Market, American Visionary Art Museum, 9 a.m. to 3 p/m.

Sunday, 6/3:

• Sowebo Festival Poster Auction, Maryland Biopark Building, 3 p.m. 
• Radiohead, Verizon Center, 7:30 p.m. 

Weekend on the Radio Recap: Summer Lovin' Edition

This week, we celebrate the love between Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig, drink beer with the lions at the zoo, celebrate the rich life of Mr. Potato Head and follow it up with a little Napalm Death/

All Weekend Long:

• Maryland Death Fest, Sonar, check website for details
• Universoul Circus, Security Square Mall, check website for details
• Brew at the Zoo, Baltimore Zoo, 1 to 7 p.m.
• The Adventures of Mr. Potato Head, Port Discovery, check website for details
• Hasaguchi Goyo's Beautiful Women, Walters Art Gallery, 10 to 5 p,m.

Thursday, 5/24:

• Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever Release Party, Atomic Books, 7 p.m. 
• Germano's Cabaret, Germano's, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, 5/27:

• Sowebo Arts Festival, 1100 Block of Hollins Street, noon to 8 p.m. 

Weekend on the Radio Recap: Charm City Ink Edition

This week, we take mom to sample some bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmern at The Hippodrome, get some sick ink at the Baltimore Tattoo Arts Convention, and go rockken with Dokken at the M3 Rock Festival.  Remember, the bigger the hair, the closer to God.

All Weekend Long:

• Baltimore Tattoo Arts Convention, Baltimore Convention Center, check website for details
• M3 Rock Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, check website for details
• Preakness Hot Air Balloon Festival, Turf Valley, check website for details
• Young Frankenstein, The Lyric, check website for details

Thursday, 7/10:

• Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Verizon Center, 7:30 p.m. 

 Friday, 7/11:

• Charm City Swing Dancing, Mobtown Ballroom, 7 p.m.

Saturday 7/12:

• Let's Eat Charles Street, North Charles St., noon to 5 p.m. 
• Big Truck Day, Baltimore Museum of Industry, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Baltimore Foodie Experience with Andrew Zimmern, Hippodrome, 3 p.m.

Sunday, 7/13:

• Orioles vs. Devil Rays, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, 1:35 p.m. 

Weekend on the Radio Recap: Sensitive Rapper Edition

This week, Sam and Erik get in touch with their sensitive sides with Kid Cudi at Tigerfest and the Sweetlife Festival, check out some crafts at the Sugarloaf Craft festival, and march for the animals in Druid Hill Park.

All Weekend Long:

• Sugarloaf Craft Festival, Timonium Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday
• The Baltimore Contemporary Print Festival, Baltimore Museum of Art, check website for details

Friday, 4/27:

• Tigerfest, Unitas Stadium, 3 p.m.
• Bacon Funtime Comedy Hour, Golden West Cafe, 11 p.m.

Saturday, 4/28:

• Sweetlife Festival, Merriweather Post Pavillion, 12 p.m.
• Life is Good: A Benefit for Moveable Feast, Gertrude's, 7 p.m.

Sunday, 4/29:

• 25th Annual Pow-wow, Ferry Bar Park, noon to 11 p.m.
• Federal Hill Spring Block Party, Federal Hill, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Let's March for The Animals, Druid Hill Park, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Red, White and Bluegrass, Boordy Vineyards, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m

Weekend on the Radio: Swashbuckling Edition

This week, Sam and Erik put on their finest skull and crossbones for Privateer Day, enjoy the springtime festivities at the JHU Spring Fair, and take their ladies to see Die Fledermaus.

All Weekend Long

• JHU Spring Fair, Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus, 12 to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday
  
• Norm MacDonald, Baltimore Comedy Factory, check website for details
• Die Fledermaus, Towson University: Steven's Hall Theatre, 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
  

Thursday, 4/19:

• Portugal the Man, Ram's Head Live, 8 p.m.
• Roast of Mayor Sheila Dixon, Baltimore Comedy Factory, 7 p.m.

Friday, 4/20:

• Poly Speed Dating, Ottobar (upstairs), 6 p.m.
• Baltimore Armored Ball, Ottobar (downstairs) 9 p.m.

Saturday, 4/21:

• Privateer Day, Fells Point, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, 4/22:

• Localize It! Baltimore Free Farm Block Party, Ash Street Farms, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  

Weekend on the Radio: Down the Rabbit Hole Edition

This week, Sam and Erik try not to be late for the Creative Alliance's Wonderland Ball, enjoy the sights and smells of Spring at the Walters' Art Blooms exhibit, and check out exploding pens at the DC Spy Museum. Erik refuses to drink Heineken, studio edicts be damned!

All Weekend Long:

• 15th Annual Peep Show, Carroll Arts Center, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Art Blooms, The Walters Art Gallery, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Opening reception 4/11 at 6:30 p.m

Thursday, 4/12:

• Read the Small Print Reception, Village Learning Place, 7 p.m.
• Page One: Inside the New York Times screening, Towson University, 7 p.m.

Friday, 4/13:

• Spy at Night, International Spy Museum, 6 p.m.

Saturday, 4/14:

• Build a Block Coalition Fundraiser, Wegmans Hunt Valley, 7 to 10 p.m.
• Wonderland Ball, Creative Alliance, 9 p,m.
• The Ting-Tings, Ram's Head Live, 8 p.m.

Sunday, 4/15:

• The Jewish Film Festival Presents: David, Jewish Community Center, 3 p.m.