If we’re honest with ourselves, we can all probably remember back to a childhood instance when we felt insufferably bored by a grade-school history textbook. It wasn’t the history that that was boring – it was reading about it in those dry pages peppered with long-ago dates and unfamiliar names. Well, guess what? The textbooks are still like that, and today’s kids are still bored. Author Jonathon Scott Fuqua understands. He sympathizes. And he’s created a solution. He joins producer Aaron Henkin for a look at his new book, Calvert the Raven in the Battle of Baltimore.
You know that 1930 Grant Wood painting, 
In a city of more than 225 neighborhoods, Baltimore’s Reservoir Hill is known for its historical importance and its architectural significance. A new book, Kelly Dale Terrill’s 
For twenty five years, 
Nancy Heneson joins the program with “Immortal,” the story of a soul (temporarily) without a body.
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. But we do suspect a number of listeners out there may be entirely (and perhaps willfully) ignorant about the subject at large. For you, producer Aaron Henkin presents a special segment called, Death Metal: A primer for the discerning public radio listener...
On May 2nd, the 2013 Mary Sawyers Baker Prizes were announced, and three Baltimore artists suddenly found themselves each 25 thousand dollars richer. The William G Baker, Jr., Memorial Fund has been awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars to local artists over the past 5 years, and it all happens through an open-enrollment website: 
Jen Michalski’s sweeping new novel, 
