Arts & Culture

On May 2nd, the 2013 Mary Sawyers Baker Prizes were announced, and three Baltimore artists suddenly found themselves each 25 thousand dollars richer.

So, if we were to draw a Venn Diagram with ‘public radio listeners’ in one circle and ‘death metal fans’ in the other circle, we’re not quite sure what the overlap would be.  Maybe the results would surprise us.

May 10, 2013

The documentary Hit and Stay, screening tomorrow at the Maryland Film Festival, shows how the Vietnam War protest strategy of the Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine spread around the country. We'll meet the filmmakers, Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk.

May 7, 2013

Web Extra: Catholicism in the Catonsville 9

Web Extra: Shawn Peters talks about Mary Moylan

Web Extra: Where the surviving members are now

As David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” gets set to open at Fells Point Corner Theatre, we drop in at a rehearsal to meet the cast of scheming, swearing sales sharks who aim, at all costs, to “always be closing.”

Mick Kipp, AKA Mick the Pirate, was a beloved bartender, an unlikely hot sauce entrepreneur, a former stuntman, and a bona fide Baltimore personality.  He passed away this week, and we remember him with a listen back to his 2007 story from The Stoop.

When Stephen Pitcairn was murdered in Shirley Brewer’s neighborhood, she sent a poem to the young man’s grieving mother.  That gift has proven to be more meaningful than the writer ever expected.  Shirley Brewer joins The Signal’s Aaron Henkin to share from her poetry collection, After Words.

What if predicting the flu was as common as forecasting the weather? That’s the concept behind Sickweather, a Baltimore start-up that mines public data from Facebook and Twitter for key words and phrases about symptoms of sickness. The Signal’s Lisa Morgan interviews Sickweather’s Graham Dodge.

He was a beloved bartender, an unlikely hot sauce entrepreneur, a cancer survivor, and a retired stuntman.  When Mick Kipp, better known as “Mick the Pirate,” died from cardiac arrest on Sunday, April 28th, Baltimore lost a kind soul and a larger-than-life personality.

Think your workplace is stressful?  It might be worth remembering that it could be much worse.

May 3, 2013