November 24, 2014
November 20, 2014 - Segment 3 - We're joined by Garrison Keillor, author and host of a Prairie Home Companion.
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November 24, 2014
November 20, 2014 - Segment 2 - We take a tour through the Baltimore Museum of Art's recently reopened American Wing with David Park Curry, Senior Curator and Department Head of Decorative Arts and American Painting and Sculpture for the Museum.
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 6 - We close out the show with our weekly feature, City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. This week is City Paper's holiday gift edition!
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 5 - We bring you a special musical treat, when we're joined by singer, songwriter and visual artist SONiA of disappear fear, who will be performing in Maryland.
November 17, 2014
November 12, 2014 - Segment 5 City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to talk about what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
November 14, 2014
November 12, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss a controversial speech by the president of Lincoln University. Speaking to students, he said women should not report rape in order to keep Black men out of prison.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 5 - I talk with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian whose trilogy America in the King Years chronicles the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 4 - I talk with Mark Bowden, author of many books including Black Hawk Down, about his 2006 work Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk with individuals from the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank. The goal of the theatre is to empower the community and to explore the potential of arts as an important catalyst for social change.
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host another Philosophers' Roundtable and ask the question: Do Things Happen for a Reason?
November 10, 2014
November 5, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our weekly feature, City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods.
November 10, 2014
November 4, 2014 - Segment 3 - Jamaican-born singer and musician Alex Marley sits down to talk about his music when he was in Baltimore this summer.
November 4, 2014
October 31, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a panel discussion I moderated last weekend at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, part of the World of the Play series, called "A New Top Gun, A New War."
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 3 - We take a look at The Whiteness Project, an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify themselves as "white" experience their ethnicity, with the creator of that project and a roundtable of guests.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 5 - City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to tell us what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - I'm joined by world-renowned Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando, who is currently visiting and speaking at Morgan State University on telling African diaspora history history through film.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a discussion of ROOTSfest and an event reflecting on it, with Alternate ROOT, Culture Works and community artist Ashley Minner.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to my live interview with Piper Kerman, whose best-selling memoir of her time in prison, Orange is the New Black, is the basis for the popular television series of the same name. Kerman will be speaking at Center Stage in Baltimore on Monday as part of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore's Big Change event.
October 26, 2014
October 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - I talk with playwright George Brant, who wrote the current production at Everyman Theatre, Grounded. Brant is a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center whose work has been produced internationally.
October 26, 2014
October 22, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a very special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show. Listen in to my 2010 interview with poet, activist and author Dr. Sonia Sanchez. The author of over 16 books, Sanchez is an expert on Black culture and literature, women's liberation, and racial justice.
October 26, 2014
October 22, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk with Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods for our weekly check-in. This week's City Paper features an interview with new Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Gregory Thornton.
October 20, 2014
October 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - We host a panel on the racial divides in the artistic world in Baltimore, inspired by articles in last week's Baltimore City Paper's 2014 Fall Arts Guide. With Kalima Young, Baynard Woods, Deana Haggag and Mia Loving.
October 20, 2014
October 17, 2014 - Segment 2 - Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Communication and Affiliate Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, talks about her book Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, which recently received the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award for the Best Edited Book in African American History from the Association of Black Women Historians.
October 20, 2014
October 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Listen to Marc's interview with Native American author, historian, feminist, and self-described revolutionary Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her fascinating and informative book An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.
October 16, 2014
October 16, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to a very special treat when I interview a true Baltimore icon, the legendary filmmaker and author John Waters! John joins me to talk about his fifty-year career, his recent book Carsick, and a recent tribute and retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, “50 Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take?”
October 16, 2014
October 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc speaks with New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow about his compelling new memoir about growing up in segregated Louisiana, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
October 15, 2014
October 15, 2014 - Segment 3 - Marc and educator Koli Tengella talk to author, filmmaker and Coppin State University professor D. Watkins about his recent writings, the Baltimore media landscape, different representations of Baltimore in writing and film, and the things that hold young people in Baltimore back from reaching their potential.
October 15, 2014
October 15, 2014 - Segment 2 - I interview 1980s teen idol Molly Ringwald about her upcoming cabaret-style jazz performance at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts.
October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014 - Segment 2 - It's WEAA's Fall Membership Drive! We listen back to some of our best arts programming from 2014. First, it's our visit to the American Visionary Arts Museum's last exhibit, “Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity,” with Rebecca Hoffberger, Founder and Director of AVAM.
October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - It's WEAA's Fall Membership Drive! Call us this week during the show between 10:00 AM and noon eastern time at 410-319-8888 to make a pledge. We meet National Book Critics Award Finalist Reyna Grande. Her memoir, The Distance Between Us, is this year’s One Maryland One Book selection.
October 13, 2014
October 10, 2014 - Segment 4 - We rebroadcast of our show on Afrofuturism, with world-renowned Gospel and Blues singer Lea Gilmore! Lea and Marc talk with: Baltimore-based producer, DJ, and singer Blaqstarr; poet, MC, singer and producer Camae Defstar, aka Moor Mother Goddess; and author, filmmaker, dancer, and futurist Ytasha L. Womack. Womack's latest book, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy explores black sci fi culture, black comix, and the legacy of Afrofuturism.
October 13, 2014
October 8, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our weekly check-in with Baynard Woods,Senior Editor of the Baltimore City Paper: City Paper This Week.
October 8, 2014
October 7, 2014 - Segment 3 - Join us for a sneak peek of God's Country, a performance by LOVE the Poet opening for a one week run by the Strand Theater Company. We're joined by Michelle Antoinette aka LOVE the Poet, spoken word artist and musician.
October 6, 2014
October 3, 2014 - Segment 3 - We meet National Book Critics Award Finalist Reyna Grande. Her memoir, The Distance Between Us, is this year's One Maryland One Book selection.
October 6, 2014
October 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - We meet Wendell Holmes of The Holmes Brothers, a blues and gospel trio that has performed together for five decades. They recently won the NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor the United States bestows upon traditional artists.
October 2, 2014
October 1, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with our weekly segment, City Paper This Week. In addition to Senior Editor Baynard Woods, photographer J.M. Giordano joins us to offer a preview of his exhibition, Struggle: Portraits of Civil Rights and Black Power, which opens Wednesday evening at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
October 2, 2014
October 1, 2014 - Segment 2 - Marc speaks with New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow about his compelling new memoir about growing up in segregated Louisiana, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
October 1, 2014
September 30, 2014 - Segment 2 - In light of the controversial article by Allesandra Stanley in the September 18 issue of the New York Times, in which Stanley suggests that Shonda Rhimes -- producer of TV shows Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, and How to Get Away With Murder-- and her characters are "angry black women," we take a look at portrayals of black women in the media and on TV.
September 29, 2014
September 25, 2014 - Segment 2 - We give you a taste of what you'll experience at the Transmodern Performance Festival, which is happening this week in Baltimore. You will hear from Hoesy Corona and Ada Pinkston, Curators of LabBodies and co-organizers of the Festival.
September 25, 2014
September 24, 2014 - Segment 5 - Baynard Woods, Senior Editor of the City Paper, joins us to discuss what's in this week's issue, which features books.
September 25, 2014
September 25, 2014 - Segment 2 - We celebrate a history-making event: the unveiling of the first portrait of an African American to be displayed in the Governor's residence in Maryland! Last week Governor Martin O'Malley and Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown unveiled a portrait of Frederick Douglass at the Government House in Annapolis.
September 23, 2014
September 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - It's Banned Books Week! From Harry Potter to Catcher in the Rye to Fifty Shades of Gray, we talk about our favorite banned books, with: Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom; and Dr. Carla Hayden, Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
September 23, 2014
September 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - Listen to a very special treat when I interview a true Baltimore icon, the legendary filmmaker and author John Waters! John joins me to talk about his fifty-year career and recent tribute and retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, "50 Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take?"
September 23, 2014
September 19, 2014 - Segment 3 - We bring you a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, with Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, musician, writer, and conceptual artist, and Paul Rucker,visual artist, composer, and musician. We discuss art, music, politics, the war on drugs, and remix culture.
September 18, 2014
September 17, 2014 - Segment 5 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to discuss this week's issue of the City Paper, which is the annual Best of Baltimore issue.
September 16, 2014
September 15, 2014 - Segment 3 - Marc speaks to Dr. Joe Brewster, creators of the acclaimed documentary American Promise and authors of the new book, Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and Life. Monday evening at 7:00, he will discuss their new book as part of Open Society Institute-Baltimore's "Talking About Race" series at the Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch.
September 14, 2014
September 12, 2014 - Segment 4 - Listen to the broadcast of the funny and fascinating discussion from last week's World of the Play, "Waiting in the Wings," at Everyman Theatre. The conversation, inspired by Everyman's current performance, The Understudy, explored the challenges and rewards of being an understudy.
September 12, 2014
September 10, 2014 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with our regular feature, City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. This week, the paper takes a look at journalist H. L. Mencken and more.
September 10, 2014
September 9, 2014 - Segment 2 - We take a look at cultural diversity in children's literature. In March of this year the New York Times' Sunday Review published an op-ed piece by the late children's book author Walter Dean Myers: "Where Are the People of Color in Children's Books?"
September 8, 2014
September 8, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with painter and muralist Stephen Towns, who discusses his exhibit co|patriot currently on display at Gallery CA in Baltimore. The exhibit features Towns' new and previous work inspired by his readings of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Twelve Years a Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.