December 24, 2012
We'll keep the New Year's party going with Guillermo Brown, host of WEAA's Fiesta Musical, with Latin songs about the New Year and celebration.
December 24, 2012
Keith Covington, former owner of the New Haven Lounge, brings us into 2013 with great conversation and some of the best traditional and contemporary jazz music, from Johnny Hartman to Wynton Marsalis.
December 23, 2012
Florida, host of WEAA's Strictly Hip Hop, visits our studio for a departure from traditional holiday music. We hear hip hop related to the season.
December 23, 2012
We're joined by the Director of Morgan State University's Choir, Eric Conway for music that embodies the holiday season.
December 22, 2012
We'll hear crooners, jazz standards, and even a little Cee Lo Green when Milton Dugger, musician and president of Gumption Records, shares some of his favorite holiday music with us.
December 22, 2012
Happy Boxing Day! We continue our holiday music series with Tom Hall, Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.
December 21, 2012
From John Lee Hooker to Whitney Houston, blues and gospel artist Lea Gilmore shares some great holiday sounds of soul.
December 21, 2012
Conductor Ed Polochick joins us for some good conversation and to share some of his favorite Christmas choral and classical music.
December 20, 2012
This week on Sound Bites, we speak with members of Red Tomato. Red Tomato is a non-profit food hub that connects wholesale growers to supermarkets and other retailers located in the Northeast.
December 20, 2012
We remember those who lost their lives on the streets of Baltimore this year due to homelessness. In honor of Homeless Person's Memorial Day, I will read more than 100 names of people who died from homelessness this year and have a conversation with:
December 19, 2012
Every year since 1996, the folk ensemble Helicon have joined us to share seasonal music from around the world. They join us once again in the lead up to their 27th annual solstice concert, hapening this Saturday at Goucher College.
December 19, 2012
We start the show with a wide-ranging roundtable conversation on current events and some of the biggest news stories of the year. We'll be joined by
December 18, 2012
December 18, 2012
December 18, 2012
Picking up where yesterday's two hour special on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting left off, we have a conversation around race and gender in both Friday's tragedy and other instances of mass violence in America.
December 17, 2012
We take a look at mental health in America, examining violence, mental illness, and effective treatment strategies. We are joined by co-host Anthony McCarthy and:
December 17, 2012
We discuss violence and gun policy in America with co-host Anthony McCarthy. Our guests include:
December 17, 2012
Two young soldiers meet on a jungle trail, one lives, one dies. Their fates are connected for 40 years. This is the story of Homer Steedly, and the journal of the young soldier he killed.
December 17, 2012
Artists reveal how their work was born of war. Featured are authors Tim O’Brien ("The Things They Carried"), Bao Ninh (The Sorrow of War), and Wayne Karlin (Crossover, Lost Armies).
December 17, 2012
A veteran from the Baltimore ghetto tells how he survived the despair of war and transformed himself.
December 17, 2012
The story of the Gilchrest brothers, including Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, who’s represented the 1st Congressional District in Maryland for eight terms and his brothers Jeffrey and Alan who served with him in Vietnam, and their brother Richard who served in the Navy, and Clifford, who remained home to teach. We join the brothers as they reflect on how their views of the world have grown since that war and been affected by that war.
December 17, 2012
The stories of poet George Evans, who served as an Air Force medic and who was the first soldier to defeat his court martial, in a tale that could come straight out of the movie and TV series, MASH. And then we hear the story of Lynda Van Devanter, who was a surgical nurse in 1969 and 70, whose memoir and life story inspired the TV hit series, China Beach.
December 17, 2012
Take a journey through Vietnam with a group of eight people who went there to produce these radio documentaries. We find the unpredictable, the complexity of the Vietnamese world. We delve into the world of Buddhism we find is the underpinning of the society, and we find a land caught between the hopes of its past and the dreams of its future. We meet the poets, the writers, and the artists who fought during the war with the Americans, and we meet the young people who have come after them with their hopes and dreams for the future.
December 17, 2012
While in production for Shared Weight: "The Fall of Saigon, 30 Years Later," Producer Steve Elliot took his camera, and his life, in his hands to film a taxi ride through the streets of Hanoi.
December 17, 2012
In the final segment of Wandering Souls, we continue the journey with Vietnam Veteran Homer Steedly as he meets with the family of the Vietnamese soldier he killed forty years before.
December 13, 2012
We turn to our weekly exploration of the future of our food system, Sound Bites. This week on the show, we hear about the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future's Food Mapping project from project manger Amanda Behrens and data specialist Julia Simons.
December 13, 2012
December 12, 2012
We speak with Damien Echols, who was part of the West Memphis Three. This group of three young men was falsely accused of the murders of three young boys in Arkansas in 1993. They were tried and convicted in 1994; Damien Echols was sentenced to death. After a new trial was called, all three men were released in 2011.
December 12, 2012
We discuss a report that came out last month showing that where you live in Baltimore correlates to your health outcome in life. In some cases, life expectancy differences between neighborhoods in Baltimore amounted to 30 years.
December 12, 2012
We take a look at the newly released Baltimore City school system's 10 year plan, which would close some schools and renovate others over the next decade to deal with infrastructural problems. Joining us to discuss the plan and some of the controversy surrounding it are:
December 11, 2012
Larry Gibson, law professor from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and noted political strategist will discuss his book Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. Gibson's book focuses on the early life of the civil rights icon.
December 11, 2012
December 11, 2012
The Ravens fired their offensive coordinator Cam Cameron earlier this week. We'll speak about that choice with
- Ali Danois, Senior Editor of Bounce Magazine,
- Stan "the Fan" Charles, publisher of Press Box and PressBoxOnline.com, and
- Syreeta Hubbard, publisher of NFLchick.com.
December 11, 2012
We discuss the situations in Syria, Egypt, and Palestine/Israel, and ask the important question of what US foreign policy should be in the Middle East. We'll speak with
December 11, 2012
We speak with S. Dallas Dance, Superintendent for Baltimore County schools. We will speak to him about his experience leading Baltimore County schools since he started in mid-2012, as well as his past experience as chief middle schools officer in Houston, Texas.
December 6, 2012
This interview with David Brubeck is from October 27, 2005. David passed away yesterday, one day before his 92nd birthday. With Marc is Tom Hall, Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.
December 6, 2012
December 6, 2012
Baltimore has surpassed the 200 homicide mark in 2012 to date, which already outnumbers last year's total. We get perspectives from a diverse roundtable of guests about what this means for the city and police strategy. Our guests include:
December 6, 2012
We remember two important and influential people who passed away this week: David Brubeck, jazz pianist and composer, and Patricia Cook-Ferguson, teacher and President of the Baltimore County NAACP.
December 5, 2012
It's time for another episode of Sound Bites, our series on the food system.
December 5, 2012
Cliff DuRand, former professor of Social Philosophy at Morgan State University, joins us to discuss the book he co-edited: Recreating Democracy in a Global State. The book is a collection of essays on globalization, government, social movements, and capitalism.
December 5, 2012
We discuss the arrest of journalist F. James MacArthur in Waverly last weekend. MacArthur blogs for the Baltimore Spectator and covers crime and police issues. As a SWAT team surrounded his home, he broadcast the standoff live over his website and on Twitter.
December 4, 2012
December 4, 2012
We bring you an interview with Tom Reiss, author of The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.