Maryland Morning

12-23-11: Independence for Southern Sudan

Emmanuel Hakim leads the Sudanese congregation at a Towson church. He tells us how he felt when he voted in this year's referendum for South Sudan's independence.

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Web Extra: Trench or Mound?

Anne Raver, on planting seeds in a mound versus a trench.

3-11-11: Web Extra on Violence Against Trans-Women

In this special just for the web, Sandy Rawls speaks about why trans-women are often targets for violence.

3-4-11: Maryland Morning Web Special

A review of Les Miserables, which is at the Hippodrome in Baltimore this weekend.

2-25-11: Maryland Morning Podcast

aking a look at the AIDS rate amongst men who have sex wih men in Baltimore. A look at what it means to be young and homeless in Baltimore. Josh Slates walks Signal host Aaron Henkin through his film career, from Columbia, Missouri to Rochester, New York, to Baltimore, andback to Columbia, Missouri.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 2-22-11

How Maryland's penalties for cruelty to animals compare to the rest of the country, former South African president F.W. deKlerk on how the end of apartheid compares to the current political changes in the Middle East, and the lessons of Brundibar, a children's opera from a concentration camp.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 2-4-11

Middle East analyst I. William Zartman on future of Egypt, and Baltimore native Ellen Brooks on living and working in Cairo until she fled to England on January 31; Nathan and Gus talk tech; and Baltimore Sun film critic Michael Sragow and Maryland Film Festival's Jed Dietz.

2-1-11: Maryland Morning Podacst

The future of electric utilities in MD. News aggregator and media literacy instigator NewsTrust launches a local experiment in Baltimore. And B'more singer / songwriter Cameron Blake.

1-28-11: Maryland Morning Podcast

Are nurses facing a job shortage in MD? A new novel by a Maryland legislator asks: What will the world be like after 25 years of global warming? And a peek inside the new AVAM exhibit.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 1-25-11

Sustaining Sustainability, the intellecual side of handwriting and bringing parents into the classroom

Maryland Morning Podcast: 1-21-11

Johns Hopkins assistant professor Sara Bleich explains how patients' race can affect their medical care, a group of Chinese schoolchildren visits a Maryland grade school, and musician Ken Kolodner and his 20-year-old son, Brad, who have collaborated on "Otter Creek," an Appalachian music album that features hammered dulcimer and banjola.

Web Special: Scott Stossel Remembers Sarge Shriver

Sarge Shriver biographer, Scott Stossel

Maryland Morning Podcast: 01-17-11

Newly minted Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Dr. Joshua Sharfstein; geriatrician Bill Thomas talks about "Green Houses," a new form of housing for the elderly; and barrier-breaking African-American cardiac surgeon Levi Watkins recalls his interactions with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a youth in Montgomery.

1-12-11: Maryland Morning Podcast

A look at Haiti, a year after the earthquake. And, how to spice up healthy food.

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1-5-11: Maryland Morning Podcast

Maryland must redraw both its congressional districts and the districts for the state legislature. The process can be controversialbut now free mapping software makes it easier for Maryland citizens to contribute. Our producer Lawrence Lanahan reminisces about an encounter with jazz educator Billy Taylor. And early music group Pro Musica Rara.

1-3-11: The Underground Railroad Runs Through Maryland

Peter Michael gives Sheilah a tour of his family farm in Frederick County, and tells her about its history as a way-point on the Underground Railroad.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 12-29-10

Ira Glass, Host and Executive Producer of public radio's "This American Life", on starting the show. And Imam Mohamad Bashar Arafat, Rabbi Dana Saroken, and Rev. Andrew Foster Connors discuss how the world's major faiths help their believers confront suffering in the world.

12-22-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

We take a look at what has happened in the foreclosure crisis in the past year in Maryland and what might be coming up. What gardeners should do, come winter. Owings Mills-based writer Elizabeth Bastos reaches back to her childhood for a Christmas story of Francophilia and turophilia. And a review of Candide.

Maryland Morning Podcast 12-20-10

Show Me the Stimulus, Gus and Nathan talk tech, an Oceanic State of Mind and more...

12-14-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

Pianist and composer Leon Fleisher on his revealing new memoir, My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music. What are the big issues of note to folks in Garrett County? Two brothers with one foot in Maryland, one foot in Haiti, document the country on film, post-earthquake.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 12-10-10

EPA official Chuck Fox is moving on from his position as Chesapeake Bay Czar. We ask him about the current status of the Bay restoration effort. Then we take a look at the organizationsbesides the policewatching our streets. And - poet and scientist Michael Salcman on his latest work.

Maryland Morning Podcast 12-7-10

Fracking in Maryland, social media gurus, a tour through Freedom's Sisters and more...

Maryland Morning Podcast 12-1-10

Failure in Maryland, World AIDS Day observed from a local point of view, Wanna meet me at Wananmakers

Maryland Morning Podcast: 11-30-10

Con man turned g-man Frank Abagnale gives Sheilah a preview of his appearance at the Baltimore Speakers Series; and Tom Hall tells Sheilah about the Baltimore Choral Arts Society's double treat this Christmas season: the annual concert at the Basilica, and a recording of classical Christmas standards and newly commissioned works recorded at the Basilica

Maryland Morning Podcast: 11-26-10

We revisit the C and O canal, Matt Porterfiled at the Maryland Morning Screen Test and more!

Maryland Morning Podcast: 11-23-10

Tech Talk, Chicago Politics from Baltimore, and the future of Dodd Frank.

11-19-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

Where do Maryland lawmakers stand in the current game of Congressional musical chairs? When you think noir, do you think Baltimore? Maybe you should. One of the fathers of the genre, Dashiell Hammett, honed his detective chops in Charm City. Tom talks to Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul, and Mary).

Maryland Morning podcast: 11/17/10

Help us with a new crowdsourcing project! Baltimore has large areas where it's almost impossible to buy fresh food. We talk with the city food czar Holly Freishtat about what she's doing to change that. MICA professor Jason Sloan discusses the sound sculpture on his new album, "Corrupted Horizon." What's happening to the world's coral reefs?

Maryland Morning Podcast: 11-12-10

Arts and Entertainment, measuring the dark and all that Jazz

Maryland Morning podcast: 11/9/10

We take a closer look at the flyby of Hartley 2. A Maryland family of South Indian descent uses music to preserve their cultural heritage. Tom Hall visits the new Warhol exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art with BMA contemporary art curator Kristen Hileman and children's authorand Andy Warhol's nephewJames Warhola

Maryland Morning Podcast 11-05-10

Solving the problem of vacant houses across maryland, running to regain your life, W Jynn Rousuck reviews the Blue Man Group's performance, and the movie guys give us the rundown on this month's picks.

Maryland Morning podcast: 11/2/10

On the 146th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Maryland, author and Howard University professor J.P. Kerr-Ritchie tells Tom about emancipation celebrations. A little of the history of the Maryland constitutional convention, with state archivist Edward Papenfuse and Maryland constitution expert Dan Friedman. Author Elizabeth Gilbert.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-29-10

St. Mary's College assistant professor Todd Eberly on Maryland's 1st and 5th District Congressional races; Edgar Allan Poe interpreter David Keltz; J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Single Carrot Theater's Natural Selection and The Vagabond Players' Sweeney Todd; and Nathan Sterner interviews horror auteur Chris LaMartina for the Maryland Morning Screen Test.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-26-10

Baltimore Sun's Jay Hancock, Towson U.'s Daraius Irani, and U of Balt's Richard Clinch look at Baltimore's business climate; a look at cybersecurity training with the trainers and the employers; and Walter Wick at the Walters.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-22-10

Our Show Me the Stimulus reporter looks at the life of a 1.1 mile-long highway repaving project, the first in the country to be funded with stimulus money; Baltimore Sun tech reporter Gus Sentementes; Saxophonist Greg Thompkins and guitarist Carl Filipiak on the Baltimore Jazz Education Project.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-19-10

Author Antero Pietila discusses Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, a preview of the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute's Science of the Arts Speakers Series from BSI Director Dr. Jack Griffin, BSI Director of Interdisciplinary Partnerships Susan Magsamen, and Walters Art Museum Director Gary Vi

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-15-10

Trans-Elect CEO Robert Mitchell on the Atlantic Wind Project, UMBC political scientist Roy Meyers tells Sheilah why Maryland's gubernatorial candidates have so little to say about Maryland's fiscal future, and 17-year-old Ilyich Rivas tells Tom about conducting the BSO.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-12-10

Laura Furr, co-author of a report that says it's time to undo a sixteen-year-old Maryland law that automatically charges juveniles as adults for certain crimes, and to Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger; J. Wynn Rousuck on Centerstage's The Wiz; Meg Olmert, author of "Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond."

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-8-10

Merit pay for teachers, a propper lesson in propper english, super snacks from Sascha and more...

Maryland Morning Podcast: 10-01-10

Maryland's film industry future with Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival and Hannah Byron, assistant secretary for tourism, film and the arts in Maryland's Department of Business and Economic Development; University of Maryland anthropologist Stephen Brighton on unearthing a 19th century Irish quarry workers' village in Cockeysville; and the Marylan

Maryland Morning Podcast: 09-30-10

Healthcare premiums in Maryland, your letters, J Wynn Rousuck reviews Shipwrecked, Rose Pryor on fostering talent in youg musicians and more...

Maryland Morning Podcast 9-27-10

Multigenerational families, Gary Shteyngart's dark vision of the future, J Wynn Rousuck's review of Dinner with Friends, and the visual arts season preview.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 9-22-10

Bats and wind power, Michele Norris' new book, The maryland Stem Cell Symposium, an exit interview with Irene Hoffman and more...

Maryland Morning Podcast: 09-20-10

the fostercare system, A review of Chess from J Wynn Rousuck, what the classical music scene holds in store for charm city this season.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 09-15-10

Picking apart the primaries with WYPR senior news analyst Fraser Smith, Republican activist and Examiner columnist Antonio Campbell, and the Washington Post's Aaron Davis; our monthly tech rundown with Baltimore Sun tech reporter Gus Sentementes; and garden guru Anne Raver joins us in the studio to talk pickles, peppers, and prepping for fall.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 9-10-10

Politics gets social, happy birthday Mr. Mencken, dancing about science and more...

Maryland Morning Podcast: 09-07-10

How the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top fund has set the Maryland education establishment on a fast track to figuring out how to measure student and teacher success; Barry C. Black's journey from Baltimore's housing projects to chaplain's office of the U.S. Senate; Carla Hayden of the Enoch Pratt has reading suggestions for fall.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 09-03-10

Andrei Codrescu on his time at the Baltimore Sun, his writing, and his views on posthumanism; artist Joyce Scott on using and misusing humor to talk about race; and Tom gets a tour of Greenmount Cemetery from Wayne Schaumburg.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 08-31-10

JHU professor Andre Levchenko on bacterial cities; cultural confusion in Fells Point as Native American Ashley Minner treads the shifting line between black, white, and brown; Maryland poet laureate Stanley Plumly on his heroes and his own work.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 08-27-10

Fort McHenry historian Scott Sheads on the overlooked battles of the War of 1812, Jewell Parker Rhodes on her novel "Douglass' Women," and Aaron Henkin interviews filmmakers Jonathan and R.M. Robinson in front of a live audience at The Windup Space for the Maryland Morning Screen Test.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 08-24-10

An overlooked sector of the economy in Maryland -- video games; New York Times Magazine columnist Rob Walker on his literary project that recruits authors to imagine significant stories behind insignificant objects; and A local TV anchor tells us about undersung civil rights hero Dr. Ozell Sutton.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 08-20-10

Baltimore Sun's Annie Linskey and national early voting expert Kate Kenski on how early voting might play out in Maryland campaigns, we'll hear from both parties to a lawsuit challenging Maryland's gun laws and a Constitutional law scholar, and Maryland-based jazz guitarist Tom Lagana.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 08-17-10

Marvin "Doc" Cheatham reflects on his nearly six years at the helm of Baltimore's branch of the NAACP; a conversation with Laura Lippman, whose latest novel is out today; and Tom talks to Collective co-director Sonia Synkowski and Regulators dancer Talbolt Johnson about their collaboration at the Creative Alliance Friday

08-13-10: Maryland Morning PodKast

The science and politics behind a waste-to-energy facility near Curtis Bay, an introduction to pro soccer team Crystal Palace Baltimore, and Tom talks fastballs with Tim Wendel, author of "High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time."

8-10-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

Congressman Frank Kratovil on his bid for re-election, Remembering Eunice Kennedy Shriver one year after her passing, We're just going to wing this one with the Baltimore Improv Group, Maryland Morning theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck on Fells Point Corner Theatre's production of "Scorpions."

Maryland Morning PodKast: 8-6-10

The University of Maryland's News21 project explores the health of the Chesapeake Bay, a look at some Baltimore MCs in advance of this weekend's Baltimore Rap Round Robin, J. Wynn Rousuck on the Olney's "The Savannah Disputation," and film talk with Jed Dietz and Mike Sragow.

8-3-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

Bob Leib, the county's liaison to the National Security Agency, talks about how Anne Arundel County deals with the growth of NSA, Spc. Tom Lyden calls in from Kandahar, Afghanistan to ask if any of our listeners would send him a Maryland flag, Singer-songwriters Abby Mott and Kristen Toedtman are back in Baltimore for a show at the Creative Alliance.

7-30-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

Andy Harris on his bid for Maryland's First Congressional seat, a few moments with John Pente, J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Cockpit in Court's "Curtains," and filmmaker Catherine Pancake takes the Screen Test.

7-27-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

What is there left to do when you've been foreclosed on?, Johns Hopkins historian Louis Galambos on the performance of vaccine production systems, pre- and post-H1N1, The award-winning designer tells Tom about a four-decade career that includes City Hall and the Washington Design Center's "Halls of Fame" Design House.

Maryland Morning Podcast 07-23-10

What a AAA bond rating really means, mice who know to follow thier nose, Jason and the Argonauts (the water ballet), a review from theater critic J Wynn Rousuck ...and more!

7-20-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

The Daily Record's Caryn Tamber talks about how accessible public records were in Maryland district and circuit courthouses, Sheilah talks with author J. Christoph Amberger about his novel "The Lazarus Smile" and his approach to publishing, Arthur Morgan and Roy Skeen, two Baltimore City urban farmers working to change the city's relationship with food.

7-16-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

Three-and-a-half years after Deamonte Driver's death, do poor kids in Maryland have better dental health care?, John Willis on the election board audit, MICA takes on radio, and J. Wynn Rousuck's take on the Theatrical Mining Company's production of "Black Widows."

Maryland Morning PodKast: 07-14-10

Race or place? Which matters more in determining how healthy you are? We talk with Johns Hopkins researchers and Congressman Elijah Cummings. Anne Raver on how to protect your heat-sensitive plants, how to find some plants that like heat, and her confuse-a-bug theory of low-impact pest management. And the MDM Culture Calendar.

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Maryland Morning PodKast: 07-07-10

On the morning of Maryland candidates' filing deadline, Fraser Smith and Joel McCord of WYPR's news team tell us who filed, who didn't, and what it means; Author Temple Grandin on autism; and Musicologist Ian Nagoski brings us rare, beautiful music from the early 20th century.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 07-05-10

6-30-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

The Supreme Court's ruling on the "Honest Services" saw, Steve Luxenberg on the medical records of the dead, J. Wynn Rousuck on "In the Shadow of Lushan," and catching up with Lafayette Gilchrist.

6-23-10 Maryland Morning Podcast

A 3D breakthrough in charting cell movement, Morgan State's Mobile Journalism project, Anne Raver on heat and gardens, and the Maryland Morning Culture Calendar.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 6-18-10

Maryland Morning PodKast: 06-09-10

Justice Policy Institute research associate Nastassia Walsh and Maryland Commissioner of Pretrial Detention and Services Wendell France, Maryland Morning theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the petite production of The Tempest at the Theatre Project, foodie Sascha Wolhandler celebrates the strawberry, and the Maryland Morning Culture Calendar

Maryland Morning 06-07-10: DJ Booman remixes Tom Hall

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Maryland Morning PodKast: 06-02-10

An update on Port of Baltimore from with MD Ports Admin. exec. dir. James White; author Bradley Birzer on Charles Carroll, the Founding Father that history forgot; theatre critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Sycamore Trees" at Signature Theatre in Arlington; Leon Fleisher on his upcoming animal shelter benefit concert; and the MD Morning Culture Calendar

Maryland Morning PodKast: 05-25--10

Defending against invasive species, 150 years of gay American autobiography, and what technology does to journalism

Maryland Morning PodKast: 05-21-10

Congressman Elijah Cummings on health care and financial regulation reform, Eastern Shore author Carol Eron Rizzoli on her memoir The House at Royal Oak, sustainable Jewish cooking with cookbook author Joan Nathan, and theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the Everyman Theatre's production of Blackbird

Maryland Morning PodKast: 05-18--10

Maryland Planning Secretary Richard Hall and Maryland Association of Counties

Maryland Morning PodKast: 05-14--10

A look back at Triple Crown winners past, unraveling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with Hopkins OCD program director Dr. Gerald Nestadt, Opera Vivente puts a Baltimore accent on The Magic Flute, and J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Single Carrot's Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)

Maryland Morning PodKast: 05-11--10

a look inside a new stem cell research project and its unusual backer. Nine years, 800,000 dollars, and a whole lot of bake sales: The Dream House opens. An installation that makes the noise of North Avenue into art. Really.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 05-07-10

You're gonna need a plug for that Electric Vehicle Today's Fallen Heroes Day Ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens Monthly movie mayhem now featuring the maryland Film Festival...and more.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 05-04--10

Madison Smartt Bell and AP reporter Jonathan Katz on the redevelopment of agriculture in Haiti, and Nathan talks tech with Gus Sentementes of the Baltimore Sun, and Matt Porterfield on his new feature film "Putty Hill"...and more.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 04-30--10

Is the stimulus package growing a solar industry in Maryland? Blade shearing, border collies, and other highlights from this weekend's Maryland Sheep and Wool festival. We get an introduction to the baltimore band Future Islands and hear a review of their new album In Evening Air. Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Olney Theatre Ce

Maryland Morning PodKast: 04-27-10

Jay Hancock and Joanna Smith-Ramani on the developing Congressional financial regulation bill; the ex-wife of the Beltway Sniper speaks out in support of victims of domestic violence; a novel of the Mexican Revolution by an Anne Arundel County author.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 04-23-10

Friday on Maryland Morning: Sheilah looks at the effect of health care reform on small businesses, a review of Canadian violinist Owen Pallett's latest album, Korean composer Byeongwoo Lee on scoring horror films and studying at the Peabody...and more.

Maryland Morning 4/20 - Diagnosis: Maryland's Doctor...

The health care reform package passed by Congress in March could bring insurance coverage to hundreds of thousands of Marylanders. Are there are enough doctors to handle them?

4-19-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

How healthcare reform will affect free clinics in the Free State; frontiers in foreclosure prevention -- a program to keep people from even signing a bad mortgage loan; and Tom Hall talks to two Marylanders helping to rebuild a music program in Haiti.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 04-14-10

I do declare! Nathan explores when a candidate is officially a candidate, and why; MICA design faculty Inna Alesina and Ellen Lupton on their new book,

Maryland Morning PodKast: 04-12-10

We explore the construction of a new telescope at Johns Hopkins University, a conversation with civil rights leader Julian Bond, the director and composer of a new opera about the life of boxer Joe Louis...and more.

4-7-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

How environmentalists and watermen feel about Governor O'Malley's oyster restoration plan, Tom Pelton tells the story of Tom Wisner, the Bard of the Chesapeake Bay, a look inside the Walter's new exhibit on Japanese Cloisonne Enamels.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 4-05-10

Monday on Maryland Morning: Unemployment in Maryland and the strength of the Unemployment Trust Fund, the personal and universal poetry of Sue Ellen Thompson, WJZ's Vic Carter on forgotten civil rights figure Ozell Sutton, and more.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 03-31-10

The Legislative Lightning Round takes a quick look at five General Assembly bills that made it through "Crossover Day," more of our conversation with Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld, experiments in fashion at MICA's Panoptic performance, and the Maryland Morning Culture Calendar.

3-29-10 Maryland Morning Podcast

Secretary of Planning Richard Hall on how the 2010 Census is playing out in Maryland, artist Mindy Belloff recreates the version of the Declaration of Independence printed by Baltimore postmistress Mary Katherine Goddard in 1777, a documentary that features high school kids with mad jazz chops, J. Wynn Rousuck tells Tom about Everyman Theatre's Our Town

Maryland Morning Podcast: 03-24-10

Sheilah debriefs "Show Me the Stimulus" reporter Doug Donovan on Governor O'Malley's quarterly stimulus spending meeting, Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld on guns and drugs, Israeli filmmaker Dan Geva, the Maryland Morning Culture Calendar, and more.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 03-22-10

What's killing Maryland's bats?, an historical novel examines Frederick Douglass' relationships with his wife, his mistress, and the woman he married after his wife died; The Baltimore Ballet doesn't dance around the issues, and more.

Maryland Morning PodKast: 03-17-10

Wednesday on Maryland Morning: Legislative Lightning Round brings you the pros and cons on 5 bills in 10 minutes, University of Maryland anthropology professor Stephen Brighton on a 19th century Irish settlement in Baltimore County, chef Sascha Wolhandler cooks up an Irish feast, and the Maryland Morning Culture Calendar serves up treats for aesthetes.

03-15-10: Maryland Morning Podcast

A discussion on the future of Baltimore's vacants in the absence of a Land Bank plan, columnist David Brooks and his (some would say cozy) relationship with the Obama administration, and the new experimental films of Eric Dyer.

03-9-10 Maryland Morning Podcast

Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, on finding a balance between the wars on drugs and guns in Charm City, and Marin Alsop takes the BSO under the big top and brings it all to you.

Maryland Morning Podcast: 3-8-10

Local stakeholders react to President Obama's health care reform bill, how federal stimulus money is being used to stave off hunger in Maryland, Baltimore Opera Theatre's Giorgio Lalov tries to fill the opera gap in Baltimore, and more.