Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more

Everything you need to know about what's happening in town

  • Jill Scott performs at the Lyric on Tuesday.
Jill Scott performs at the Lyric on Tuesday. (Getty )
October 04, 2011|By Jordan Bartel, b

Here's your one-stop, handy list of everything going on this week

MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
The Big Year
Footloose
Restless
The Thing

NOTABLE TV

MONDAY
The Rosie Show (talk-show premiere; 7 p.m.; OWN)
Oprah’s Lifeclass (series debut; 8 p.m.; OWN)
Scare Tactics (season premiere; 9 p.m.; Syfy)
Bored to Death (season premiere; 9 p.m.; HBO)
Enlightened (series debut; 9:30 p.m.; HBO)
Hairy Bikers (sneak peek; 10 p.m.; History)

TUESDAY
Last Man Standing (series debut; 8 p.m.; ABC
I Used to Be Fat (season premiere; 10 p.m.; MTV)
Reed Between the Lines (series debutl 10 p.m.; BET)
Chelsea Settles (series debut; 11 p.m.; MTV)

WEDNESDAY
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist (season premiere; 9 p.m.; Bravo)
Psych (season premiere; 10 p.m.; USA)

THURSDAY
Bordertown: Laredo (series debut; 10 p.m.; A&E)

SATURDAY
Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s (series debut; 9 p.m.; OWN)
Don’t Tell the Bride (series debut; 10 p.m.; OWN)

SUNDAY
Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind (series debut; 8 p.m.; OWN)
The Walking Dead (season premiere; 9 p.m.; AMC)
Ask Oprah’s All Stars (season premiere; 9 p.m.; OWN)
Our America With Lisa Ling (season premiere; 10 p.m.; OWN)

NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY (Tuesday)
Bones: The Complete Sixth Season
Chuck: The Complete Fourth Season
Ghost Hunters: Season 6: Part 2
Green Lantern
Horrible Bosses
Jem and the Holograms: The Truly Outrageous Complete Series
Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer
Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless
Terri
The Tree of Life
The Trip
Workaholics: Season One
Zookeeper

NEW ALBUMS (Tuesday)
Ben Folds, “The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective”
Ben Lee, “Deeper Into Dreams”
Bjork, “Biophilia”
Britney Spears, “B in the Mix, The Remixes, Vol. 2”
Casiokids, “Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen”
Crooked Fingers, “Breaks in the Armor”
Cymbals Eat Guitars, “Lenses Alien”
Electric Six, “Heartbeats and Brainwaves”
Erasure, “Tomorrow’s World”
Evanescence, “Evanescence”
Five Finger Death Punch, “American Capitalist”
Future Islands, “On the Water”
High Places, “Original Colors”
I Am The Avalanche, “Avalanche United”
James Morrison, “Awakening”
Joe Henry, “Reverie”
Joe Jonas, “Fastlife”
John Wesley Harding, “The Sound of His Own Voice”
Lauren Alania, “Wildflower”
Marketa Irglova, “Anar”
Martina McBride, “Eleven”
Mayer Hawthorne, “How Do You Do”
Nick Swisher, “Believe”
Paley and Francis, “Paley and Francis”
Peter Gabriel, “New Blood”
Rachel Yamagata, “Chesapeake”
Radiohead, “Tkol Rmx 1234567”
Remember Remember, “Quickening”
Rich Robinson, “Through a Crooked Sun”
Ryan Adams, “Ashes & Fire”
Still Corners, “Creatures of an Hour”
The Field, “Lopping State of Mind”
The Rifles, “Freedom Run”
This is Hell, “Black Mass”
Wednesday 13, “Calling All Corpses”
William Shatner, “Seeking Major Tom”

NOTABLE AREA SHOWS

RAMS HEAD LIVE: The Young Dubliners (Tuesday); Lisa Hannigan (Wednesday); The AP Tour w/ Four Year Strong, Gallows, etc. (Friday); Arctic Monkeys/Smith Westerns (Saturday)

MERRIWEATHER: WPOC Sunday in the Country w/ Josh Turner, the Band Perry, Joel Nichols, et al (Sunday)

BALTIMORE SOUNDSTAGE: Parachute/Kate Voegele (Tuesday); Devin Townsend (Wednesday); Southern Culture on the Skids (Thursday); Saxon (Saturday); Vertical Horizon (Sunday)

GOLDEN WEST: The Life and Times (Monday)

SONAR: Chimaira (Tuesday); Warbringer (Friday); Queen of the Mic 5 (Friday); Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg (Saturday)

TALKING HEAD: Impiety (Satuday); Lydia (Sunday)

OTTOBAR: The Baltimore String Felons, Bobby E. Lee, et al (Monday); Mates of States/Other Lives/Yaw (Tuesday); The Kindness of Strangers, et al (Wednesday);  Soiree Debauche Tour (Thursday); Bet the Devil CD release (Friday); Vibrate (Saturday); We Got Next Musikfest (Sunday)

METRO GALLERY: Moss of Aura, Norwegian Arms, et al (Friday); J Dillsio, Animal Style, Pandas (Saturday)

RAMS HEAD ON STAGE: Spin Doctors (Tuesday); Langhorne Slim (Thursday); Joshua James/honeyhoney (Saturday)

LYRIC OPERA HOUSE: Jill Scott (Tuesday); Tony Bennett (Saturday)

RECHER: Fuel (Tuesday); Phil Vassar (Wednesday); Mushroomhead (Thursday); Blind Man Leading, et al (Friday); Tommy Lee/DJ Aero (Friday); Thrice (Saturday); Filter (Sunday)

8x10: Moonalice/Dawngone (Tuesday); Carl Filipiak/Maggie Brown and Friends (Friday); Trevor Hall/Chelsea Lee (Saturday)

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING: Trey Anastasio Band (Thursday); Blue October/iamdynamite (Friday); Yngwie Malmsteen (Saturday); Mayday Parade (Sunday)

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