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Tour guide Zippy Larsen has built her reputation on taking visitors off the beaten path.  We’ll talk with her about her shoe-leather research methods and what she’s learned about the real character of Charm City.

We look at the intersection of political action and parenthood with China Martens

On the eve of her 30th birthday, Marianne Amoss takes stock of her life and ponders the meaning of the impending milestone.

The co-founders of Ink Press Productions join us with their new book of darkly humorous verse, “Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today”

On the eve of her 30th birthday, Marianne Amoss takes stock of her life and ponders the meaning of the impending milestone.

We look at the intersection of political action and parenthood with China Martens, editor of Don’t Leave your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities.

Baltimore independent tour guide Zippy Larson has built her reputation on taking visitors off the beaten path.  We’ll talk with her about her shoe-leather research methods and what she’s learned about the real character of Charm City.

Baltimore independent tour guide Zippy Larsen has built her reputation on taking visitors off the beaten path.  We’ll talk with her about her shoe-leather research methods and what she’s learned about the real character of Charm City.

Stephen Wade always loved listening to old Library of Congress field recordings.  Then one day he decided to hit the road to search out the real-life roots of these iconic time capsules of American music.  For 18 years, this folk pilgrim traveled the country, meeting the friends, families, and sometimes the musicians themselves who were immortalized back in the 1930s and 40s by John A Lomax and his portable disc-cutting machine.

A conversation with punk-rock firebrand Ian Svenonius, who exploded onto the music scene in the 1980s with a frenetic, high-octane band called "Nation of Ulysses."  He’s been burning bright ever since, fronting groups like "The Make-Up" and "Chain and the Gang," and he’s just written a book called "Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group."

Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher has been poking fun at poli

Davy and Peter Rothbart drop by the studio to celebrate ten years of Found Magazine and to preview Davy’s new book, My Heart is an Idiot, a collection of personal essays about life and love on the American road

Jeff Trueman takes us to a Fells Point boxing gym to learn the ropes with trainer – and former Maryland boxing champ – Jake ‘The Snake’ Smith

Mike Fussell paints a radio portrait of his Highlandtown neighbor, Eugenie Benser, and her bittersweet relationship with an imperfect father

Imagine you’re keeper of a family tradition that goes back 800 years.  You and your kin are tellers of history, spiritual counselors, and you do your work through the medium of music.  You’ve learned your art from your father – your father from his father before him.  You’re respected.  You’re venerated.  You’re essential.