Arts & Culture

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.

Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post joins Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival to discuss the best--and worst--of winter cinema. It includes Quentin Tarantino's Django, Unchained, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, and Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. 

The college football bowl season is in full swing. None of the players is getting paid to play in the bowl games -- or any other game for that matter. Historian Taylor Branch says we should change that. Tom Hall talks with Branch about the Bowl Championship Series and the state of college sports.