The Signal, 11.11.11 & 11.12.11, The Roc-a-Jets, The Threepenny Opera, and Fertile Concrete

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The Roc-A-Jets were tough, they sported pompadours, and they made the ladies swoon… but they weren’t guys.  We meet musicians Carla Mandley and Jo Kellum, members of this 1950s rockabilly band that pioneered a social scene for gay women in Charm City.

Baltimore’s Annex Theater takes on Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, and Signal contributor Baynard Woods talks with director Evan Moritz about the musical’s thematic resonance with modern-day politics.

At age 23, Robert A Douglas has published Fertile Concrete, a memoir about his young life in Baltimore, and we talk with him about his path from drug dealer to gospel preacher.