This week's episode of Pass the Mic features guest host, Simone Phillips, Founder and Creator of Charm City Table. In the Spring of 2017, Simone began sharing observations and thoughts about the best places to eat and gather by creating the Charm City Table Blog. Years later, Charm City Table has become an award-winning established platform for foodies, business owners and great conversation about restaurants and food.

Updates on Maryland's contentious redistricting efforts from WYPR State House reporter Sarah Petrowich, and WYPR's Scott Maucione on the Maryland AG's suit to block a DHS detention center in Washington County.

Two news guild chairs — Dan Belson of the Baltimore Sun and Ariel Wittenberg of POLITICO's E&E News — discuss their concerns over the Baltimore Sun's trial use of AI to write two recent news analyses.

History shows that enslaved people used the B&O Railroad as part of the Underground Railroad.

NPR Climate Desk correspondent Rebecca Hersher examines how Maryland is responding on several fronts to the urgency of climate change.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Fences," August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 play, in a new production by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.

Currently, children aged 14 and older in Maryland can be charged as adults for first-degree murder and rape charges. At 16 or older, the list of quantifiable crimes for automatic charging expands to 33.

Some journeys take us to places beyond our imagination.

In his imaginitive new novel, "Vigil," author George Saunders explores themes of life and death, good and evil, corruption and absolution.