Maryland Morning

With the trail of summer blockbusters coming to its close, Maryland Morning's movie experts Jed Dietz and Mike Sragow sit down to sort  through the upcoming rush of fall flicks. And they've already found several standouts.

Everyman Theatre's production of "Time Stands Still" is up through October 7. Our resident theatre critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews a performance, which she calls "solid, sensitive, and involving."

"We're actually in the midst of a golden age, a sort-of-renaissance when it comes to the local arts scene" -John Lewis. 

150 years ago, in early Sept 1862, the United States was in peril. Union forces had won a string of victories in the spring, but after a new general, Robert E. Lee, took command of southern troops in June, the tide seemed to have turned.  By late summer, it suddenly seemed possible the Confederacy could win the war.

Thursday, September 6- Sunday, September 16

Rep Stage presents Jon Marans’  “The Temperamentals”

Aggressive incidents in Department of Juvenile Services facilities seem to be down...but Pod E in the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center saw a spike in aggressive incidents in May.

The Maryland Wine Festival is this weekend in Westminster.

One of the most intriguing musical projects going on in Baltimore this season is one that brings musicians from the pop, jazz and classical worlds together to re-imagine one of the most influential and well-known progressive rock albums of all time. 

Three Baltimore elementary schools are extending their school days from six hours to nine, making room for activities often left to after-school organizations -- like music and karate. We talk with the principal of one of the schools, and with the director of the program based in New York.

University of Maryland Baltimore County professor Bill Thomas has made an international reputation as a geriatrician and nursing-home reformer.  He generated a new approach to running nursing homes called “The Eden Alternative."

Thomas on the good and bad in his characters