May 31, 2016
May 30, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a special treat, as Steiner Show Senior Producers Stefanie Mavronis and Mark Gunnery share some of their favorite music picks!
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May 31, 2016
May 27, 2016 - Segment 2 - We broadcast of last Saturday's World of the Play at Everyman Theatre. The discussion, called "The World of Blanche Dubois" was based on the themes of the current production, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
May 31, 2016
May 27, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with our regular weekly feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment.
May 31, 2016
May 26, 2016 - Segment 2 - We close the first hour with a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, my interview with author James McBride about his book Song Yet Sung.
May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host our regular feature City Paper This Week. With Karen Houppert, Editor-in-Chief of City Paper.
May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host an interview with Joe Tropea, Digital Projects Coordinator for the Maryland Historical Society, offers a preview of an event happening Wednesday evening (May 25, 2016) at Red Emma's 2640 Space.
May 23, 2016
May 20, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host the newest segment of Tengella's Take, our weekly commentary from Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment.
May 19, 2016
May 18, 2016 - Segment 4 - We close the show with our regular feature City Paper This Week, as Steiner Show Senior Producer Stefanie Mavronis interviews City Paper's Editor-in-Chief Karen Houppert about the Sizzlin' Summer Issue!
May 19, 2016
May 18, 2016 - Segment 1 - A recent project at UMBC has been collecting stories of Baltimore communities as they change and grow. This semester’s radio series is called DOWNTOWN VOICES. Today, “Arts & Diversity” -- a look at one of the city’s “Arts Districts,” and the divisions in race and class among the Artists who work there.
May 19, 2016
May 17, 2016 - Segment 4 - We turn to the Arts as we close the show with an interview with Kareem Samara. Samara is a British Palestinian musician and a founding member of Artists For Palestine UK and London Palestine Action.
May 19, 2016
May 17, 2016 - Segment 1 - A recent project at UMBC has been collecting stories of Baltimore communities as they change and grow. This semester’s radio series is called DOWNTOWN VOICES. Today, “Word on the Street” -- a little sidewalk talk from the west side of downtown.
May 17, 2016
May 16, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the week with another new series produced by students at UMBC. This semester’s radio series is called DOWNTOWN VOICES. Today, “A Tale of Two Markets,” -- a look at changes in our city through the lens of the old and beloved Lexington Market, and the new and hip Mount Vernon Marketplace.
May 13, 2016
May 13, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host a preview of a performance this weekend, with writer and musician Abdu Ali. Ali will perform this Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 9:00pm at the Crown, 1910 N. Charles Street, in his second Baltimore solo show, The Ointment, a multi-sensory event curated by Ali and featuring artists of varying media.
May 13, 2016
May 13, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host a roundtable with the students who helped produce The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray. Steiner Show Senior Producer Stefanie Mavronis and I will talk with students Turrel David and Dalton Maize.
May 13, 2016
May 12, 2016 - Segment 2 - I host an interview with Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE, and Gavit Witt, who will discuss Center Stage's leadership in the world of dramaturgy as well as some exciting news.
May 12, 2016
May 11, 2016 - Segment 3 - It's our regular feature City Paper This Week, where we talk with City Paper Editor-in-Chief Karen Houppert about this week's issue.
May 10, 2016
May 9, 2016 - Segment 3 - We interview Navasha Daya and Fanon Hill about their album "Lom Nava Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" and about the forthcoming documentary to debut in July 2016.
May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host the newest segment of Tengella's Take, our weekly commentary from Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
May 6, 2016
May 4, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a preview of what's in store at the Maryland Film Festival, which begins tonight May 4, 2016. With Jed Dietz, Director of the Festival, and Michael Faulkner, Director of the film Shu-de!, which follows Baltimore beat-box artist Shodekeh as he travels to Tuva to collaborate with the throat singing group Alash.
May 5, 2016
May 4, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host our weekly segment City Paper This Week. The current issue of City Paper is on the Maryland Film Festival. Steiner Show senior producer Mark Gunnery interviews Brandon Soderberg, Deputy Editor and Arts Editor for City Paper.
May 5, 2016
May 4, 2016 - Segment 3 - We learn about True Laurels, a Baltimore-based zine and website that is about to launch a print magazine. True Laurels honors the stories of dynamic, defiant artists through candid diaries, photography, reviews and editorials.
May 4, 2016
May 3, 2016 - Segment 1- We begin the show with an interview with D Watkins, who will be talking about his new book The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir.
May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 - Segment 4 - We hear the first part of a new series on arts & culture called Booth Stories, co-hosted by Love the Poet. We look at the impact the Baltimore Uprising had on arts and music in Baltimore, with Eze Jackson.
April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host a fascinating cross-cultural and cross-generational discussion that took place at last Saturday's World of the Play at Everyman Theatre. Our panel's topic is A Dream Preferred, based on the themes of Death of a Salesman, and our guests talk about what the "American Dream" means in today's world.
April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 - Segment 2 - We talk with Ron Cassie, Senior Editor of Baltimore Magazine, about his in-depth and thought-provoking article "A Tale of Two Cities: For half a century, West Baltimore was a vital center of black culture, mixed-income neighborhoods, and groundbreaking civil rights activism. After Freddie Gray, can it be again?"
April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host our weekly feature, Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment.
April 29, 2016
April 28, 2016 - Segment 1 - I have a conversation with author, academic, and political activist Bill Ayers about his new book Teaching With Conscience in an Imperfect World. Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), member of the executive committee of the Faculty Senate and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society.
April 29, 2016
April 27, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host our regular feature, City Paper This Week. With Karen Houppert, City Paper Editor-In-Chief.
April 29, 2016
April 26, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a special hour-long tribute to Prince, who died last week at the age of 57. With: Carla Wills, Kalima Young, Dr. Lester Spence, and Steve Parke.
April 22, 2016
April 22, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a short tribute to the life of Prince, who died today at the age of 57.
April 22, 2016
April 20, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host our regular feature City Paper This Week, looking at the 2016 Weed Issue of City Paper. Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery interviews Brandon Soderberg, Deputy Editor and Arts Editor for City Paper.
April 22, 2016
April 19, 2016 - Segment 4 - We are joined by Talib Saber, Program Associate for the Friend of a Friend program, talking about the Tubman House. We discuss the Luminous Intervention Project with him and its involvement with the Tubman House.
April 22, 2016
April 19, 2016 - Segment 3 - We reflect upon the anniversary of his death and of the Baltimore Uprising. With: Ralikh Hayes, organizer with Bmore Bloc; and Timothy Wilson, co-Director at On Our Shoulders and Vice Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee at the NAACP of Baltimore.
April 15, 2016
April 15, 2016 - Segment 2 - Dr. Lester Spence and I talk about race, comics and the new Black Panther comic by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze and Laura Martin.
April 15, 2016
April 15, 2016 - Segment 1 - Dr. Lester Spence joins me in-studio to talk about his new book, Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics. Spence is Center for Emerging Media Scholar-In-Residence, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and author of Knocking the Hustle and Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics.
April 12, 2016
April 11, 2016 - Segment 2 - We take a look at the controversy over what has been called the "whitewash" of the Oscars. With: Ann Hornaday, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, and Kalima Young.
April 12, 2016
April 11, 2016 - Segment 1 - Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Communication and Affiliate Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, joins us to talk about her new book, RaceBrave: New and Selected Works.
April 8, 2016
April 8, 2016 - Segment 5 - Marc Steiner Presents ... The Book Thing, by Baltimore Sound Society. We bring you a story about The Book Thing, a Baltimore institution in Waverly that was nearly destroyed by fire last month. This piece is produced by Megan McGrath of the Baltimore Sound Society, an audio and storytelling collective out of UMBC.
April 8, 2016
April 8, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host a discussion with members of the Luminous Intervention Project who hosted a project during Light City Baltimore. During the festival the group presented projection based collages, highlighting issues surrounding Baltimore City’s government: police violence, education and recreation, and housing.
April 8, 2016
April 8th, 2016 - Segment 2 - We play a segment of our project: Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later, we talk with cellist, artist, and Baker Artist Award recipient Paul Rucker about history, art, and the Uprising.
April 8, 2016
April 8th, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host our regular feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
April 7, 2016
April 6, 2016 - Segment 4 - We close the show with our regular feature City Paper This Week. With City Paper Editor-in-Chief Karen Houppert. This week's cover story is about heroin.
April 7, 2016
April 6, 2016 - Segment 3 - We interview award-winning author, composer and screenwriter James McBride about his new book KILL 'EM AND LEAVE: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul. McBride is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.
April 7, 2016
April 5, 2016 - Segment 4 - We feature a sneak peek at a compelling new documentary on mass incarceration of Black men called Free Young Blood.
April 7, 2016
April 5, 2016 - Segment 1 - We discuss sexual assault and domestic violence in Baltimore and beyond.
April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016 - Segment 3 - We play a rebroadcast of a compeling discussion from December 2015 on "The Burqa Issue" of the online magazine OF NOTE, one of the first online magazines focused on global artists using the arts as catalysts for activism and social change. The special issue examined the complicated experiences of women who wear the burqa.
April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016 - Segment 2 - We check in with an exciting and important event occurring right now in Baltimore, Light City Baltimore. We talk with three artists featured in the festival: Mina Cheon, Gabriel Kroiz, and Paul Rucker.
April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host our weekly feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
March 30, 2016
March 30, 2016 - Segment 4 - Our guest host, Steiner Show producer Stefanie Mavronis, hosts our regular feature City Paper This Week. With: Brandon Weigel, Blogs Editor and Calendar Editor for City Paper; and JM Giordano, Photo Editor for City Paper.
March 30, 2016
March 30, 2016 - Segment 3 - We take a peek into an important new anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. Joining us in-studio will be the book's editors: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai'a Williams.