Arts & Culture

The bold type and fluorescent images of Baltimore’s Globe Poster Company were great advertising for touring bands back in the heyday of R & B.  Now, to the creators’ surprise, they’re considered works of art.  The Globe Poster collection has been purchased by MICA, and we’ll drop in there to talk with longtime Globe shop operators Bob & Frank Cicero 

Milkshake first came together back in 2004, when members of the indie band “Love Riot” found themselves on the verge of parenthood.  What began as an experiment – a way to continue playing music together while also beginning to raise families – turned into a long range plan.

According to a 2011 US Department of Commerce report, only one in seven engineers are female.  Women in this country hold only 25 percent of jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.

At a Maryland Institute College of Art printmaking studio, the walls are lined with drawers of methodically arranged typesetting blocks, and down the middle of the room is a row of mechanical Vandercook proof presses.

Across-the-board federal spending cuts called “sequestration” were put in place March 1st.  They've already caused layoffs in Maryland. We talk with a federal public defender dealing with furloughs, and a government contractor that has laid workers off due to spending cuts at Fort Meade.

Then, Erika Robuck blends history into fiction in novels about famous authors. Her latest imagines an intense friendship between Zelda Fitzgerald and a psychiatric nurse in Baltimore.  We talk with Robuck ahead of her appearance Saturday at the Annapolis Book Festival.

Wednesday April 10 through Saturday April 13

77th Annual Conference of the National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts
Coppin State University
Baltimore

April 9, 2013

Lawmakers are heading home after three months in Annapolis.  While there, they created a gas tax, banned the death penalty, and created new gun laws. We talk with two reporters about the 2013 legislative session.

We visit the oldest continually operating blacksmith shop in the country, G. Krug and Son, located in downtown Baltimore.

Melinda O'Neal has been directing Baltimore's Handel Choir since 2004.  Now, as she finishes up her final season, we talk about her tenure as conductor.

April 9, 2013

On The Lines Between Us, we look into the value of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.  We talk to Morgan State professor  Ray Winbush, Delegate Aisha Braveboy and formber HBCU student Antonio Johnson.  Then, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post, Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival and our own Tom Hall dicuss the late film critic Roger Ebert.

In this week's episode of “The Lines Between Us,” we’ll hear how inequality in the Baltimore region looks, from your point of view. Then, former President of Mexico Vicente Fox, on how America's War on Drugs plays out in Mexico. And continuing a Maryland Morning St. Patrick's Day tradition, guitarist Robin Bullock joins Tom Hall in studio.