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Friday, February 10
In Washington, DC, at The Howard Theatre, R&B legends, THE WHISPERS sing all their chart topping hits. Showtime is 8pm, thehowardtheatre.com
Comedian GUY TORRY bring the jokes to the Baltimore Comedy Factory, Friday and Saturday, in early and late evening shows, baltimorecomedy.com
It’s the opening for the exhibit Dark Humor: Joyce Scott & Peter Williams using “satire, visual puns, farce, absurdity, kitsch, and the bizarre,” to “upend social and aesthetic conventions” at the Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University. Through April 1. Gallery hours 11am – 8pm.
Saturday, February 11
The long time arbiters of all things funny and socially relevant, comedians DICK GREGORY and PAUL MOONEY return to The Howard Theatre, 8pm, thehowardtheatre.com
Drummer JOHN LAMKIN, III celebrates with a Valentine’s Day Love Show, a few days early, but full of romance at Caton Castle with MICAH SMITH on vocals and EDDIE BACCUS, JR on sax., 6pm, catoncastle.com
Songstress SYLEENA JOHNSON performs at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, 8pm, bethesdabluesazz.com
Iron Crow Theatre offers the Suzan Lori-Parks play, Fucking A, an updated telling of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic, The Scarlet Letter, at Theatre Project in Baltimore. Through Sunday in matinee and evening performances. Mature themes. Theatreproject.org
Saxophonist MARION MEADOWS brings smooth and contemporary jazz to Blues Alley, Saturday and into the week to celebrate the big romantic day, two shows each night, 8 and 10pm, bluesalley,com
Sunday, February 12
STEP AFRIKA! STEP XLOSION! Is the energetic performance scheduled for The Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda.
It’s a Pre-Valentine’s Day Dinner & Show with former lead singer of The Spinners FRANK WASHINGTON at the Forest Park Senior Center on Liberty Heights Avenue, 4pm, 410.215.8893
THE RODNEY KELLEY JAZZ EXPERIENCE brings contemporary and straight ahead jazz to the Vulcan Blazers Lounge on Druid Park Drive, 5pm is the time.
Trombonist JEFF BRADSHAW shows up with a few of his friends during
Love’s Holiday: A Valentine’s Celebration of Love, Soul and Music. Two performances at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, 7 and 10pm with special guests N’AMBDI and ALGEBRA BLESSETT, bethesdabluesazz.com
Shifting Views: Contemporary African Art is the exhibit at The Baltimore Museum of Art--photographs, prints, and drawings offering political perspectives on the lives of Africans, through June, 443-573-1700, artbma.org
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