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Jun 17 2013 - 5:08pm
In spring 2012, on average, 114 juveniles were locked up at Baltimore’s main intake center. This spring, the average was just 68. Maryland's juvenile justice monitor credits an initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. We’ll hear from the founder of the program and the state official putting ...
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Jun 17 2013 - 2:41pm
If any story screams out for a multimedia e-book treatment, it's the tale of The Rock Bottom Remainders, a small band of best-selling authors — including Amy Tan, Dave Barry and Stephen King — who yowled out rock standards. Hard Listening is a digital scrapbook about their years as musicians.
Jun 17 2013 - 2:00pm
Neil Gaiman's latest, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is the story of an artist who returns to his childhood home and recalls a magical struggle he was involved in as a young boy. Reviewer Annalee Newitz says the book balances "frenetic action with wistful self-knowledge."
Jun 17 2013 - 12:21pm
June 18, 2013Audio for this segment will be available by the end of the day.Photographer A. Aubrey Bodine worked for the Baltimore Sunday Sun from 1924 to 1970.During his career, he captured the way Marylanders lived—and worked. A new collection of his photography depicts some of the o...
Jun 17 2013 - 11:00am
In his new book, journalist Charles Glass explores the little-known history of thousands of American and British soldiers who deserted during World War II. Glass describes how the strain of war can push a soldier to the breaking point — and how the line between courage and cowardice is never simple.
Jun 13 2013 - 2:51pm
June 17, 2013Two local authors have recently released books for young readers that take as their point of departure important events in Maryland history. Neil Didriksen’s Battle Creek: A Tale of Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Maryland is a look into the daily lives of the people who settled...
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Jun 12 2013 - 1:24pm
Deborah Hicks grew up in a working-class family in rural North Carolina. In The Road Out: A Teacher’s Odyssey in Poor America, she weaves a narrative of growing up in Appalachia with her experiences as an educator trying to help a group of troubled girls in inner-city Cincinnati. Hicks w...
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Jun 12 2013 - 10:55am
Ernest Burkeen took over as Baltimore’s director of Recreation and Parks six months ago. We ask him about his vision for the city’s parks and rec centers, and how outdoor activities can change young lives.Then, what to wear when it's pouring one moment, sweltering the next … and how to advise ...
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Jun 12 2013 - 7:59am
June 12, 2013Baltimore author Marion Winik has had two husbands, three children, and is approaching dating in her 50s with abandon. She's chronicled it all in her new memoir Highs in the Low Fifties: How I Stumbled Through the Joys of Single Living. It's a repository of experien...
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Jun 12 2013 - 7:08am
Also: A comic book for the blind; Salvador Dali's great, trippy Alice in Wonderland illustrations.
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Monday, June 17, 2013 - 6:35am
WYPR's Fraser Smith and Scott Calvert of the Baltimore Sun talk about how the City Council is...
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 6:35am
WYPR's Fraser Smith and David Moon, political consultant and blogger at Maryland Juice talk...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 4:55am
Homer Favor, who died last Saturday, was an unrelenting advocate for civil and economic rights....
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