stoop storytelling

The Sprout Touring Film Festival showcases inspirational movies by and about people with developmental disabilities, and as the festival heads to town, we explore some of the cinematic highlights with Sprout director Anthony DiSalvo and Kate McGuire of The Arc Baltimore.

July 6th & 7th, 2012, on The Signal:  

The roadside tourist trap “South of the Border” has been voted the ‘tackiest place in the mid-Atlantic,’ but for historian Nicole King, it was love at first sight.  Professor King has researched “South of the Border” with a critical eye, and she joins us with some profound cultural observations about a profoundly silly place 

NPR Political Junkie Ken Rudin confesses his own political failings in front of a live audience at WYPR’s 10th anniversary Stoop Storytelling celebration.

March 2nd & 3rd, 2012, on The Signal…

Novelist Bernice McFadden joins us to discuss her new book, “Gathering of Waters,” a story that mixes historical fact and magical realism in the town of Money, Mississippi.

We preview the 2012 NOVO Instrumental Music Festival with curator Mat Leffler Schulman and performers Mike Shank and Ruby Fulton.

Baltimore tap legends Buster Brown, Baby Laurence, and Hawk Hawkins may be gone, but their spirits live on.  Modern tap dancer Quynn Johnson shows us how two toes plus two heels can equal infinite rhythms.