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This segment originally aired on December 6, 2011.

About a year ago, Baltimore lost one of its leading arts advocates when Nancy Haragan, the founding Director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, died of cancer.  Our own Tom Hall worked closely with Nancy and other arts leaders as a member of the GBCA board. On December 6th of last year, Tom offered this remembrance.

Friday, July 27-Saturday, July 28

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Olney Theatre Center

Tom talks with the heads of several Baltimore opera companies for an update on how the art form is doing.

Gus Sentementes of the Baltimore Sun talks tech with Nathan Sterner

There are many perspectives in Maryland on the Palestinian bid for statehood — we hear from two of them — but we also want to hear from you.

J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the musical “Fela!” It’s currently playing in Washington, DC.

The Federal Transit Administration has given the go-ahead for Baltimore’s proposed Red Line addition to the light rail system to begin the preliminary engineering phase. What effect could Baltimore’s next mayor have on when we’ll be able to get on board–literally?

What impact do those paintings around town have on the neighborhoods they inhabit?

Get me some rosin, stat! Tom Hall talks to a member of the World Doctors Orchestra, a musical body composed entirely of physicians that’s coming to the Strathmore this weekend.

Treats for aesthetes!

In disaster situations in which there aren’t enough resources, how do caregivers decide who to save–and who’s beyond help?

Tom talks to the Mercy Medical Center researcher behind a new surgical technique in which liquid chemotherapy is poured directly into the abdomen, and to an appendix cancer survivor who received the treatment.

Tom talks to Crownsville’s Chic Dambach, author of the new memoir “Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder,” about the Global Peace Index and why peace activism and peacebuilding are not the same thing.

How the extreme heat and dryness is affecting the region’s farmers.

One of the biggest issues in controlling STDs is just knowing who has them. But how do you know if people don’t want to be tested? Dr. Charlotte Gaydos, a professor in the division of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has found one way to make testing easy and confidential: let people do it themselves. She talks with Sheilah about the program she co-founded, I Want The Kit, that allows people to test themselves.

Perspectives from those who are familiar with midwife-attended births– at home, in birth centers, and in hospitals; community program Jubilee Arts brings art classes to Sandtown-Winchester residents and brings the arts legacy back to Pennsylvania Avenue; garden guru Anne Raver on plants that like the heat; and the Maryland Morning Culture Calendar.