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At: Andy’s In: Chestertown Call: (410) 778-6779 Make way for the Swamp Boogie! Barbecue Bob & the Spareribs is bayou blues with its hair on fire, with twanging guitars, stinging harmonicas, and enough testosterone to fuel a Peterbilt. BBQ Bob and his boys are another quality offering from the excellent Country/Rockabilly scene that’s been growing like a bourbon-soaked seedling in NYC.The overwhelming theme flowing from BBQ Bob’s sound is ENERGY, which spikes and surges almost like a punk rock...

An earlier version of this post included the wrong phone number. The number has been corrected.-Ed. “The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?” is currently playing at the Bay Theatre in Annapolis now through June 14th. A few weeks ago I was listening to a program on National Public Radio (NPR) about autism, and the reporter was talking about a study project that utilized subjects reactions to the 1966 film ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” to measure how sensitive they were to gauging social cues from...

A few months ago, Ashley Raymond, production manager at What’s Up? sent around an e-mail to gauge everyone’s interest in joining the Annapolis Sports and Social Club Kickball League. Since the last team I had played on was tee-ball, I was a bit nervous at the idea of being on an organized sports team. I forwarded the e-mail to my boyfriend, Victor, secretly hoping he would say he wasn’t interested but within minutes he had written me back, “I want to do this. Make it happen.” After being reassured...

In recent history it was the O.J. Simpson trial that had many Americans glued to their television sets, but if you were alive 60 years ago the real life courtroom drama that had everyone attentively listening to their radio was the trial of Richard Bruno Hauptman. Hauptmann, the play by John Logan is currently playing at the Colonial Players in Annapolis through May 24th and it is an excellent production, both thought provoking and entertaining. The 1930’s when the story takes...

During the dreadful downpour of early Sunday afternoon, my wife and I headed to the movies for an early showing (12:30 p.m.) of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Judging from it's description online, it seemed like the right pick for light fare, which we sought. In other words, I didn't want to think too hard. The comedy centers around love-lost Peter, whose CSI-esque TV star girlfriend dumps him. He's love torn and apparently is in need of a break . . .from everything. What better way to get over a breakup...

By Andrew Keatts, What's Up? Eastern Shore Events EditorShow dates: 4/8 and 4/9, Rams Head Live, Baltimore.In the years since Jerry Garcia’s death, Deadheads have got their fix in a number of ways. Some settled for similar bands like Phish,Widespread Panic, the String Cheese Incident, and (though I don’t personallysee the similarities) Dave Mathews. Others relied on the efforts of remaining members of the Grateful Dead, among them The Other Ones, The Dead, Phil Lesh...

If you had to pin down one band on which to carry the collective torch of jambands across the U.S. of A right now, Widespread Panic would be an easy target. The Athens-bred band, which for a good sum of the '80s and '90s was sort of in the exploratory, jamband shadow of their Northern counterparts, Phish, and to an extent the Grateful Dead (until Jerry Garcia's passing in '95 gave both bands a jolt of new, if not aging, fans), is perhaps the biggest of jamband brethren still touring the country relentlessly,...

I recently saw singer-songwriter Andy Davis perform at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis. He performed as special guest before Dave Mason. Unfamiliar with his music, I first checked out his Web site (www.andydavisonline.com). The site opens up with some of Andy’s tunes and within a few seconds I thought, “Oooh I like Andy Davis.” When I got to Rams Head, I quickly realized that I was easily the youngest person there—and likely the person closest in age to 25-year-old Davis. Seeing as Dave Mason, made...