Search results for

Houston, the fourth largest U.S. city, will have a runoff election between longtime Democratic State Senator John Whitmire and Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee

On today's News Wrap, guest host Nathan Sterner sits in for Tom Hall with a rundown of the stories making headlines in our region this week:Turmoil in…

Today on the News Wrap, we examine how the internet is fanning the flames of political and racial discord in America. Guest host Nathan Sterner speaks…

It's the Midday Newswrap: Seven Baltimore Police Department officers have been implicated as part of an internal investigation into the corrupt Gun Trace…

Across Maryland, Republicans are trying to capitalize on Governor Hogan’s popularity. Especially in Baltimore County, where Republican Al Redmer faces…

Post-election analysis from Maryland experts

He wrote the screenplay for the film Undercover Brother, which began life as a Web site animation. The film, now out on DVD, is an action comedy [that] pokes fun at black action films of the 1970s and racial stereotypes. Ridley's latest novel is A Conversation with the Mann, about a black comic in the civil rights era of the early 1960s. This interview first aired January 10, 2002.

With his writing partner, Fred Ebb, Kander wrote the music for the original Broadway musical Chicago. The movie version of Chicago is nominated for 13 Academy Awards this year. Kander and Ebb are nominated for their song "I Move On." Kander and Ebb also wrote the music for the shows Cabaret, The Act, Woman of the Year, and Flora the Red Meance, and the Martin Scorsese movie musical New York, New York. Both Chicago and Cabaret have recently been revived on Broadway.

People are not rejoining the workforce for a variety of reasons.

Fort Lee, named after the leader of Confederate forces during the Civil War, was redesignated on Thursday to honor Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams.

Lee's upcoming novel is a dystopian tale, set in a future America where corporations have replaced a long-crumbled government, and Chinese immigrant workers have become a new laboring class, repopulating deserted cities.

WYPR's Frasier Smith talks to John Lee about the nuances and possible wrinkles in Maryland as early voting begins Thursday.

Fraser Smith and John Lee, of the WYPR news team, examine the Baltimore County Council's effort to phase out the storm water management fee, otherwise...

Linda talks with John diIulio (dih-YOO-lee-oh), a professor at Princeton University and the director of the public management program at the Brookings Institution, about the problem of juvenile crime. They'll discuss whether or not juvenile crime really is a problem, or if awareness of juvenile crime has increased because of politics.

Tasjan got a scholarship to study jazz at Berklee then co-founded a glam rock band in New York before landing in the Nashville singer-songwriter scene.

Barry's new book is The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. In 1918, the influenza virus emerged, and in the next year killed millions of people. He writes "before that worldwide pandemic faded away in 1920, it would kill more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history." Scientists are still trying to figure out why the virus spread so rapidly and killed so efficiently. The story has relevance today as scientists believe we are due for another flu pandemic. Barry is the author of four other books including Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.

Actor JOHN MAHONEY. He started out in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater.His film roles include "Tin Men," "Eight Men Out," the randy professor in"Moonstruck," and the father in "Say Anything."... Mahoney now playsFrasier's (Kelsey Grammer) father in the "Cheers" spin-off "Frasier".Television producer STEPHEN BOCHCO. With shows like "Hill Street Blues," "L.A.Law," and this season's "NYPD Blue," Bochco can claim credit for awhole TV genre: intensely realistic dramas that use an ensemble cast andmultiple, interweaving plots that quickly cut back and forth. TV critics allude to the "Bochco-ization of network TV," as more and more programsuse the Bochco trademarks of large casts, gallows humor and allusions tounconventional sex. Bocho remains an innovative, albeit controversial,force in television. His latest series "NYPD Blue" has been rejected by asizeable number of ABC affiliates for vulgarity and nudity. The ratingsand critics,though, assert that this is television at its finest.Actor DENNIS FRANZ. He played the tough, gum chewing LieutenantNorman Bunz on the acclaimed TV series, "Hill Street Blues." Bunz brieflystarred in the short-lived "Hill Street Blues" spin-off, "Beverly Hills Bunz.He returns to television in ABC's "NYPD Blue." As Detective Sipowicz, heplays a legendary cop that is now battling burn-out and the bottle.

The artist says his father's early misgivings about his chosen career became a source of motivation: "He gave me the determination to make something of myself." John's new memoir is called Me.

His film is "Cecil B. Demented" has just been released on His film is Cecil B. Demented has just been released on video and DVD. Its about an underground filmmaker and his cult following who declare war on bad cinema by kidnapping a starlet and forcing her to star in their own film. Waters other movies include, Pecker about a young amateur photographer who becomes the darling of the New York art world; Cry Baby, a juvenile delinquent love story set in the 1950's, which brought together such performers as Patty Hearst, Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, David Nelson, and Polly Bergen. Waters is known for his independent, off-beat films, such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and "Polyester." In 1988 WATERS entered the mainstream with his popular film, "Hairspray."

Chung's semi-autobiographical film follows a Korean American father who moves his family to a farm in rural Arkansas. Minaribegan one afternoon when Chung wrote down 80 childhood memories.