Baltimore Playwrights Festival

Maryland’s electric utilities are preparing to review their response to the derecho storm six weeks ago. A series of public hearings this week will let customers weigh in on BGE’s performance. We'll talk to a top BGE official, and to Public Service Commission chairman Douglas Nazarian.

Then – remember that Life Magazine cover photo from the end of World War II – a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square?

A new book identifies the woman as a resident of Frederick. We talk with her…and the sailor!

Our Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the play Passport, by Kevin Kostic, which is playing through August 26th at the Load of Fun Theatre as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.

Are you in the zone?  The enterprise zone, that is.  Baltimore is redrawing the lines for the city's enterprise zone, which determine the companies get big tax breaks.  We talk about it with a reporter for the Baltimore Business Journal and a tax manager from the Department of Economic Development, which oversees the process.

Thursday, August 9

Jazz Jam with Liz Schwendenmann, Rich Brown and Peter Heiss

Researchers at Johns Hopkins are looking at nanoparticles in a new way. We’ll talk with two scientists who are trying to get pharmaceuticals to subvert the body’s natural defenses…in order to treat disease.

Then—150 years ago, Annapolis was the main depot for Union prisoners-of-war paroled by the Confederacy. We’ll hear from the author of a book about how the parolees transformed the sleepy town into crowded city of liquor, crime and disease.

And – J. Wynn Rousuck reviews “Following Sarah” at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.

Audio for this segment will be uploaded by the end of the day.

Of course it's important for medical and nursing students to learn how to talk with patients about HIV and AIDS. We’ll find out why the University of Maryland is now teaching students in other professions, too.

Then, an Emmittsburg woman who finally found time to write her debut novel- at age 89.

Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck has been to see Shana Unsettled, written by Ronda Cooperstein and co-directed by Jim Knipple and Janel Miley.  It's playing through July 15 at Fells Point Corner Theatre as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.