Midday

Midday critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed discuss author Mark Osteen’s fresh take on the gritty genre in his new book, Nightmare Alley: Film Noir And the American Dream (Johns Hopkins University Press).

A 14-year-old Howard County girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend were charged last month in the stabbing death of the girl’s father, Dennis Lane, a real estate executive and local blogger. Lane’s death in his Ellicott City home shocked the community, and police could offer no motive.  While cases of children murdering parents are rare, Columbia-based psychologist Brad Sachs, who has extensive experience counseling families, talks about the dynamics of parents and troubled teens and the potential for violence in the most conflicted relationships.

Unwed fathers, especially among the urban poor, are often regarded with disdain and scorn. But are the negative stereotypes warranted? What kind of relationships do these men really have with their children?

Is world peace a myth or something that the next generation can achieve? For three decades, John Hunter, a teacher in the Maryland and Virginia, has given his students the chance to seek this ideal through his World Peace Game. The game has become widely popular, the subject of a documentary and Hunter’s new book, World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements.

A discussion about the retail giant in the wake of the industrial disaster in Bangladesh and the efforts by U.S. workers to get better wages and working conditions. Original air date May 15

Why do we choose the friends we do?  How do friends influence us? And how have friendships changed in the digital age? A conversation about this important human relationship with Psychology Today contributor Carlin Flora, author of Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are. Original air date April 10

A look at what it’s like to re-enter society following incarceration with three former Baltimore offenders who are all recent graduates of the Jericho Re-entry Program, a local year-long program to help get formerly incarcerated men get back on their feet. Original air date May 16

Temple Grandin, an inventor, speaker, and author, is one of the most well-known people living with Autism in the world. She’ll be joining us to share her life story, as well as the latest research on the disorder. Grandin is the author of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.

A look at the affect the year 1913 had on American history with a panel of guests including Marin Alsop of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Charles Emmerson, author of 1913: The World Before the Great War.

The remarkable life of Baltimore-raised entertainer Cab Calloway, with his daughter Camay Calloway Murphy, founder of the Cab Calloway Jazz Institute and Museum at Coppin State University; her son, Christopher Calloway Brooks, director of the Cab Calloway Orchestra; and Alyn Shipton, author of, Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway.  Guest host Korva Coleman