Arts & Culture

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”

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Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher has been poking fun at political leaders since the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. As he marks 35 years as an editorial cartoonist, he joins us to talk about his favorite subjects, his new book, and the resilient art of the political cartoon.

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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.”

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

Thursday January 17