Now that holiday shopping can be done with the click of a button, why do people still line-up as early as Thanksgiving afternoon to get a start on big box store sales? In this Black Friday edition of Midday, we’ll take a look at consumer psychology, and hear what’s on many shopping lists this holiday season. Philippe Duverger is a professor of Marketing at Towson University. Barry Meyers is the founder and president of Get Geeked Media, a New York-based tech-marketing company.
Then, following the death of his father, Derrick Smith Jr. of East Baltimore worked with local artists to paint a mural. He, and the muralists guiding the project - Edgar Reyes and Pablo Machioli - tell us about the power of art to unite and heal. Click here to donate to the memorial garden.
And, with the start of winter less than a month away, and temperatures flirting with freezing, what does the Baltimore’s urban agriculture community have in store? Isabel Antresian is program manager at the Whitelock Community Farm in Reservoir Hill. Laura Genello is farm manager of the Food System Lab at the Cylburn Arboretum.
