Arts & Culture

January 29, 2013

Several years ago, Eric Eberhardt stumbled upon the idea of mixing the squawk of a police scanner with a soothing, ambient soundtrack. The result was the website, “You Are Listening To…”

Web Extra: MICA Professor Jason Sloan on the allure of listening to police scanners.

Web Extra: Sloan on why he regularly listens to police scanners.

Governor O'Malley is taking a third shot at pushing a wind-energy bill through the General Assembly. Should Marylanders subsidze one of first wind farms off the east coast? We ask Malcolm Woolf, former director of the Maryland Energy Administration.
And trend stories in the media tell us that online dating is hurting monogamy .. and the so-called "sexting app"  called Snapchat  is erasing what's left of modesty among American teenagers. What else is the Internet ruining? We ask our social media analysts, Nathan Jurgenson and P.J. Rey.

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.

January 28, 2012

In a six-decade career, MICA art professor Raoul Middleman has become internationally known for his oil painting.

Low-doc, no-doc, and other risky loans helped cause the housing collapse. A new federal consumer agency has adopted a rule aimed at squeezing this kind of lending out of the market. Will it keep banks from making mortgage loans to people who can't afford them? We ask a University of Maryland business school teaching fellow with decades of experience working for lenders, assessing risk.

Thursday, January 24

Opening for Hasan Elahi solo exhibition Thousand Little Brothers
Maryland Art Place
Baltimore
6:00 p.m.

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

The singer-songwriter Victoria Vox maintains a busy tour schedule throughout the year. She’s appearing here in Baltimore this weekend along with the country singer Karen Collins at the Roots Café, a monthly series hosted by the writer and singer-songwriter Geoffrey Himes.

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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

Honkey tonk singer/songwriter Karen Collins talks about her childhood as a West Virginia coal miner’s daughter and shares music from her new album, “No Yodeling on the Radio”

Find Karen Collins' website