Maryland Morning senior producer Lawrence Lanahan looks at income inequality numbers for Maryland--and explains why our series "The Lines Between Us" has taken four months to start examining income inequality. We look at why affluent families are fleeing middle class neighborhoods and what can entice them to stay. We examine income segregation with researcher Sean Reardon and Patterson Park resident Jennifer Arndt Robinson. We also ask two residents: city Bureau of Solid Waste worker Demetric Farmer, and Glenham-Belhar Community Association president Sheila Ebelein.
When it was released Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot was often described as a punk rock opera. Maybe music critics had a hunch then, because only a few years later the hit songs that made the album a massive success, made book co-author Michael Mayer approach Green Day's Bill Joe Armstrong with an idea for a musical. 
In this week's theater review, Tom and Maryland Morning theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck discuss "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" at the 
