Maryland Morning

May 21, 2013

Books about learning from failure have been trendy the last couple years; Tavis Smiley published Fail Up, for example. And, there’s a new book for managers, The Wisdom of Failure.

Web Extra: Our conversation with Mario Livio about his book "Is God A Mathematician?"

"They're bottom-feeders who would sell their mothers swampland in Florida if it'd make them a buck." -J. Wynn Rousuck

May 13, 2013

David Mamet's Pulitzer-prize winning play Glengarry Glen Ross has been entertaining audiences since 1984 with the play's examination of American business-zooming in on the competitive world of real estate salesmen.

May 13, 2013

For more than 40 years, Abu the Flutemaker has been playing music and entertaining audiences with his handmade instruments.

His creations are inspired by everything from global instruments to domestic items found around the house.

It's been 59 years since Brown vs. Board of Education, but in today's courts, lingering inequality is still being challenged. We talk with two civil rights attorneys Ted Shaw and Susan Goering.

Then, we talk with two filmmakers Joe Troppea and Skizz Cyzyk about their recent film, Hit and Stay, a documentary about the Catonsville nine.

And theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins us to tell us what she thinks about musical "American Idiot" at the Hippodrome.

May 10, 2013

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. 

With Mother's Day in mind, we again bring you this special essay from J. Wynn Rousuck.

J. Wynn Rousuck gives us her predictions for the Tony's.

May 14, 2013

May 10, 2013

Happy Mother's Day from the whole "Maryland Morning" team! That includes (standing, from left to right): Faye Utterback’s son, Lee, Melissa Simon’s son, Sean, Marilyn Purdy's son, Matt, Gail Williams' daughter, Jamyla, Mary Elise Lanahan’s son, Lawrence, Rosemary Hall's son, Tom, (sitting, left to right) Theresa Raben Kast’s daughter, Sheilah, and Patrice McElhinny Hughes’s daughter, Stephanie.  

May 13, 2013

Jeanine Cummins reads an excerpt from The Crooked Branch.mp3

May 13, 2013

It’s estimated that one out of every three bites of food you take comes courtesy of honeybees. They pollinate many of the plants that humans and animals eat. 

May 10, 2013

The documentary Hit and Stay, screening tomorrow at the Maryland Film Festival, shows how the Vietnam War protest strategy of the Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine spread around the country. We'll meet the filmmakers, Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk.