Erica Kane

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A Baltimore playwright is bringing a dramatic 1925 courtroom case to the stage

The Rhinelander trial scandalized the nation, and revealed Americans' deep anxieties about race and class at the beginning of the 20th century.

Kate Crane is a journalist whose new book examines her Baltimore businessman father's mysterious 1987 disappearance and suspected murder — a still-unsolved case dramatized by David Simon in his HBO series "Homicide," and ""The Wire."

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Kate Crane's true-crime memoir seeks answers to her father's mysterious 1987 disappearance

Erica Kane, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

In her soon-to-be-published memoir "What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?" journalist Kate Crane shares her life-long search for clues to her father's 1987 disappearance — and suspected murder.

A warehouse outside of Hagerstown has reportedly been purchased for $102.4 million by DHS officials for possible use as an ICE detention facility.

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ICE eyes a Hagerstown warehouse for a detention center, while DHS keeps county officials in the dark.

Erica Kane, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

The Banner's Ben Conarck joins us to share his reporting on the Department of Homeland Security alleged plan to turn a Hagerstown warehouse into a new ICE immigration detention center.

The Central Maryland Transportation Alliance says a lack of repair upkeep on buses and train cars, bus reliability and bus frequency are major factors in giving Baltimore region a D+ grade for transit. Visit GetMarylandMoving.org for more info. Photo: Brian O’Doherty

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Why Baltimore's bus-rail system is getting low marks from transit activists, students and workers

Erica Kane, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

Transit activist Brian O'Malley, educational advisor Kwane Wyatt and two bus-faring high school students join us to talk about what's wrong with Baltimore's bus system, and how to fix it.

Tene Wilder is a hairstylist and former Baltimore salon owner who since 2019 has devoted her talents full-time to hairstyling on major Hollywood motion pictures. Her work on 'Sinners' helped earn an Oscar nomination for the makeup and hairstyling team on the film, which has garnered 16 Oscar nominations in all.

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Tene Wilder, Baltimore's hairstylist to-the-stars, gets an Oscar nom for her work on 'Sinners'

Erica Kane, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

Tene Wilder joins us to talk about her career in hairstyling, and recent her work with the cast of Sinners, the Ryan Coogler film that's been nominated for a record 16 Academy Awards, including one for best makeup and hairstyling.

President Obama's wax likeness is one of the most popular figures among the many on display for visitors to Baltimore's Great Blacks in Wax Museum, one of the oldest continuously operating wax museums in the country.

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At Baltimore's Great Blacks in Wax Museum, new educational initiatives and an abiding mission

Erica Kane, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

National Great Blacks in Wax Museum Director Dr. David Fakunle and educator Jessica "Culture Queen" Smith join us to describe the museum's historic mission and its latest educational initiatives.

Inside the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Dorchester County, Maryland, visitors see a bronze bust of Harriet Tubman, which tells the story of Harriet Tubman from enslaved woman to free citizen. It stands five feet tall, which was Tubman's actual height. It faces north, the direction Tubman traveled on the Underground Railroad and where she found her freedom in Philadelphia. The bronze bust is displayed on two pieces of wood local to the Eastern Shore of Maryland: red cedar, which was generic to the Eastern Shore and Dorchester County, and a base cap made from the historic Wye Oak, that symbolizes Tubman's time in the timber fields in Dorchester County, Maryland with her father, Ben Ross, and other free and enslaved African Americans.

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Debate over whose history is told—and whose is erased—plays out in Maryland's state & national parks

Erica Kane, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

An Interior Department directive has several high-profile U.S. National Parks removing so-called "partisan ideology," including information about climate change, Native American history and Black history. Will Maryland's State Parks hold the line?

Czech-born Petra Poláčková is an internationally renowned classical guitarist.

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Live in Studio A: Petra Poláčková previews her Sunday UMBC recital

Erica Kane, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

World-renowned Czech guitarist Petra Poláčková joins us with a sampling of her mastery of the romantic guitar, ahead of her Sunday recital at UMBC