Arts & Culture

We learn about the right-wing troubadours who pioneered an obscure genre of music known as “conservative folk” in the 1960s. They saw their music and lyrics as a way to fight the influence of communists and hippies on the youth of America.    

It sounds like science fiction, but neuroscientists may be on the verge of altering our brains to erase the fear we associate with traumatic memories.  Dr. Richard Huganir tells the story of his lifelong scientific quest to understand (and control) human memory.

If we’re honest with ourselves, we can all probably remember back to a childhood instance when we felt insufferably bored by a grade-school history textbook.  It wasn’t the history that that was boring – it was reading about it in those dry pages peppered with long-ago dates and unfamiliar names.  Well, guess what?  The textbooks are still like that, and today’s kids are still bored.

On May 20th, The Stoop hosted an evening of live storytelling called, “Eureka:  Stories about discoveries, breakthroughs, and brave new worlds.”  One of the storytellers was Richard Huganir.  Dr.

Believe it or not, there used to be right-wing counterparts to the left-leaning folk troubadours of the anti-war movement, and their work has been collected in the anthology, Freedom is a Hammer: Conservative Folk Revolutionaries of the Sixties.

Audio for this segment will be available by the end of the day.

This segment originally aired on December 5, 2012

Joe Jones - April 30, 2013

May 22, 2013

The area known as Perry Hall in Baltimore County gets its name from a nearly 250 year old mansion called the Perry Hall Mansion. From its early years in the late 18th century until now, it’s changed hands many times, it’s been damaged by fire and added-onto, and it’s played a role in some very important historical developments in our state.  

Friday, May 24 - Saturday, May 25

Chestertown Tea Party Festival, Chestertown, MD

Saturday, May 25

Memorial Day Commemoration at Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg. Events begin at 11:00

Potomac River Waterfowl Show, Leonardtown. Events begin at 10:00

May 22, 2013

The 28th annual SoWeBo Arts and Music Festival takes place in Southwest Baltimore on Sunday.

Back in the 80s and 90s, Sowebo was a magnet for artists, and it was discussed in the media as the next SoHo…or at least the next Fells Point.

A diagnosis of metastatic cancer is a challenge to live as well as you can, for the time you have left.  Johns Hopkins has created a retreat for couples facing that diagnosis, to help caregivers and patients help each other.  We talk about whether the retreat could be a model for other hospitals.