Arts & Culture

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.”

While imprisoned at Point Lookout during the Civil War, Lanier composed a haunting piece of music. 

Thursday January 17

Governor O'Malley's proposed 2013 budget is due on Friday.  Revenue forecasts are higher this year, but the state transportation fund is in need of money for new projects.  We talk with UMBC political science professor Roy Meyers about what will get funded--and what might get ignored.

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

Wednesday January 9
Will Redman and friends: Unsystematic Notation
The Windup Space
Baltimore
7:00 p.m.
 
Friday January 11 and Saturday January 12
Comedy Pigs sketch show
Maryland Ensemble Theater
Frederick

Friday January 11, Saturday January 12, and Sunday January 13

Since Facebook announced a new tool that allows users to announce their status as organ donors, there has been a spike in numbers of organ donors. We talk with transplant surgeon Andrew Cameron about this new trend.

Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) is producing Unscripted, two-act play that's improvised from top to bottom. BIG will rely on the audience for themes, plots and props. It premieres tomorrow night at Baltimore's Mobtown Theater.

Stewart Mostofsky is a pediatric neurologist with the Kennedy Krieger Institute and an associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. But he’s not here to talk about neurology—he’s here to talk about experimental music.