CCBC student Emmanuela Badjoko explores the surprising history of social media and how it evolved from niche profile-based websites in the 1990s into the powerful media ecosystems we live in today.

Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Rebecca Rosenberg, founder and CEO of ReBokeh, to explore how technology is reshaping what it means to see and what accessibility can teach us about innovation.

This week on the podcast, three stories about painful, unrequited adorations.

This special Valentine’s Day installment of Poe Theatre on the Air features Valentine’s Day and love poems from Poe — and a lesser known poem to Poe from his wife.

CCBC student Khadijah Kaffo investigates how modern advertising evolved from traditional propaganda to algorithm-driven persuasion systems that shape our consumption, emotions and beliefs — without us even noticing.

Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Chris Frew, founder and CEO of BioBuzz and CEO of Workforce Genetics, to explore how AI is reshaping the job market — not just by changing what work looks like, but how people get hired in the first place.

In this episode of Know-It-All, CCBC student Yasmin Movahedi explores how the horror genre has evolved in its portrayal of women. From early depictions of helpless damsels to the emergence of the “final girl,” and the complex, empowered female characters in today’s psychological horror, Yasmin examines what these shifts reveal about culture and gender. Through examples from films like Carrie, The Babadook, and Midsommar, this episode unpacks how horror has both reflected and challenged societal ideas about femininity, trauma, and strength.

This week on the podcast, two stories about people who choose to pedal through Charm City.

Host Jason Michael Perry returns from Las Vegas with a special CES 2026 edition of Thoughts on Tech & Things. Jason breaks down the Consumer Technology Association’s 2026 megatrends, including Longevity, Intelligent Transformation, and Engineering Tomorrow, and connects them to what actually showed up at CES. From Nvidia’s vision for “Physical AI,” to robots and life sciences

Written by Jade Greene and performed and recorded live at the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, “The Spectacles” is one of Poe’s comedies (yes, he wrote comedies!). In this story, a vain young man changes his name to try to inherit a fortune from a distant relative. He falls in love with a seemingly beautiful woman at the opera, but because he refuses to wear his glasses, he gets mixed up in a case of mistaken identity. Featuring the voices of Adam R. Adkins, Bri Caelleigh, Sarah Bella Joyce, Jade Greene, John Sadowsky, and Alex Zavistovich. Directed by Alex Zavistovich, with original music composition, sound design and production by James D. Watson. Made possible in part by The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Creative Baltimore Fund.