Arts & Entertainment
Get Out: It's Britney, Baby!
Britney Spears, Otakon 2011 and a Fells Point ghost walk will keep this weekend highly ... entertaining.
Where/When: Baltimore Convention Center, July 29 and 30, 8:30 a.m. - 10 p.m., and July 31, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Why Go: The annual celebration of Asian pop culture turns the Baltimore Convention Center into a fantasyland of costumed characters for the weekend. Manga and anime come to life, from Hetalia to Yu-Gi-Oh. If you know what those are, then you belong at Otakon with others of your kind.
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Pricing: $75
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Where/When: Verizon Center, July 31, 7 p.m.
Why Go: Oops, she's doing it again. But this is a grown-up, older, and maybe even wiser Britney, who still turns on the sex appeal while she madly lip-syncs and gyrates onstage, backed by explosive dancers and a special effects spectacle. Britney, who just released her new album Femme Fatale, is joined by opening act Jessie and the Toy Boys and special guest Nicki Minaj.
Pricing: $29.50 to $350
Where/When: Patterson Park Pool, Saturday, July 30, 6 p.m., and Sunday, July 31, 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Why Go: Fluid Movements, a nonprofit performance art group, goes retro in their latest water ballet, a film noir-inspired "Mobtown Murder Mystery." Their website says it all: "Add lots of water, beautiful dames and rugged mugs, and a brace of floaties, and you get the picture."
Pricing: $20 for Saturday's benefit show, $10 for Sunday's shows.
Where/When: Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, July 30, 7:30 p.m.
Why Go: Join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for an extraordinary classical, heavy metal, New Age and techno-electronica set that combines music of famous Japanese video game composer Nobuo Uematsu with graphics from the Final Fantasy series.
Pricing: $38 - $150
Original Fells Point GhostWalk
Where/When: Max's sidebar, next door to Max's on Broadway, July 29 and 30, 7 p.m.
Why Go: Experience an award-winning haunted ghost walk of Fells Point as the tour guides uncover the past of the seaport town that Baltimore was, and is. Remember the sailors, the ladies of the night, the immigrants and the fishermen, all looking for a new life and desperate to make ends meet. "Given this explosive combination," asks the GhostWalk's website, "is it any wonder that many spirits remained behind?"
Pricing: $13 (Kids are $8, but this is Fells Point on a weekend night. Leave 'em home.)
