December 30, 2013
December 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - We’ll hear crooners, jazz standards, and even a little Cee Lo Green when Milton Dugger, musician and president of Gumption Records, shares some of his favorite holiday music with us.
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December 29, 2013
December 27, 2013 - Segment 1 - We continue our holiday music series with Tom Hall, Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, who shares some great seasonal choral music.
December 27, 2013
December 26, 2013 - Hour 2 - Marc talks to author and professor of history at MIT Craig Steven Wilder about his new book Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.
December 27, 2013
December 26, 2013 - Hour 1 - Marc visits the Walters Art Museum for a conversation with new director Julia Marciari-Alexander about her background and vision for the museum.
December 26, 2013
December 24, 2013 - Segment 2 - In this holiday Marc Steiner Show special, we're joined by conductor Edward Polochick, who shares some of his favorite holiday music. Polochick is Artistic Director for Concert Artists of Baltimore, and Music Director for the Lincoln (NE) Symphony Orchestra.
December 26, 2013
December 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - From John Lee Hooker to Whitney Houston, blues and gospel artist and Center for Emerging Media's Cultural Editor Lea Gilmore shares some great holiday sounds.
December 24, 2013
December 23, 2013 - Segment 3 - Florida, host of WEAA's Strictly Hip Hop, visits our studio for a departure from traditional holiday music. We hear hip hop related to the season.
December 20, 2013
December 19, 2013 - Segment 3 - We celebrate the upcoming solstice with the music of Helicon, as they join us for their annual visit to our studios. Helicon will play for two performances this Saturday at Goucher's Kraushaar Auditorium.
December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013 - Segment 4 - It's another segment of our Theatre Baltimore series! We hear about the current production at Theatre Project, Beowulf, from Chris Pfingsten, Producing Director of Theatre Project, and Charlie Bethel, the actor who is staging his solo performance of Beowulf until Sunday, December 22nd.
December 16, 2013
December 16, 2013 - Segment 2 - We look at one of the more unusual news events of the past week--Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly's claiming that Santa Claus and Jesus were white. We are joined by Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton, Senior Pastor at the Open Church in Baltimore and Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas; and Edward J. Blum, Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University.
December 13, 2013
December 13, 2013 - Segment 2 - Kibibi Ajanku and Maria Broom tell us about the upcoming event this Saturday, December 14, at the Creative Alliance, "Kwanzaa with Maria Broom and Sankofa Dance Theater."
December 9, 2013
December 6, 2013 - Segment 4 - We look at the other side of Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's acclaimed film that received criticism for its underdeveloped Black characters. We will explore the three Black characters featured in the film, illuminating their lives and their roles in the political struggle for freedom in America.
December 9, 2013
December 6, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc discuss some of what happen in this day in history, including the day the thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery. It is also the anniversary of the first edition of the Washington Post and the death of Roy Orbison.
December 5, 2013
December 5, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a preview of the production running this weekend at the Theatre Project in Baltimore, Unveiled. Award-winning playwright, actress and solo performance artist Rohina Malik will discuss her one-woman play, which deals with issues of racism, hate crimes, love, Islam, culture, language, and life.
December 5, 2013
December 4, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with an interview of the two actors starring in the current production at Everyman Theatre, Red, about the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko. We're joined by Bruce Randolph Nelson, who stars as Rothko, and Baltimore School for the Arts alumnus Eric Berryman, who stars as Rothko's assistant, Ken.
December 5, 2013
December 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us for a weekly update on what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
December 3, 2013
December 3, 2013 - Segment 2 - December 1st was the anniversary of the death of James Baldwin, and we begin the show with a remembrance of this important novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
December 3, 2013
December 2, 2013 - Segment 4 - Center for Emerging Media's Cultural Editor, Blues & Gospel singer Lea Gilmore joins us for a conversation on the racial politics of Hip Hop, Soul and Rock & Roll, in light of last week's controversial American Music Awards. Baltimore-based rapper DDm also joins us.
December 3, 2013
December 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn to Arts and Culture with Center for Emerging Media's Cultural Editor, Blues & Gospel singer Lea Gilmore! We begin the hour talking about an upcoming tribute concert to the late Baltimore Jazz legend Ruby Glover, to be held Saturday, December 7, at Baltimore's Creative Alliance. Joining Lea in-studio will be visual and performing artist Joyce Scott; and poet and performing artist Margaret Locklear.
December 2, 2013
November 29, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the week with a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show. Listen in as the famed author and broadcaster Tavis Smiley joins us for a conversation on his book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, which he co-wrote with Dr. Cornel West.
December 2, 2013
November 29, 2013 - Segment 1 - We kick off the day with journalist, writer and cartoonist Joe Sacco, talking about his 2010 graphic novel, Footnotes in Gaza. In this important book, Sacco sought to get to the heart of a tragic incident in 1956 in which Israeli soldiers shot 111 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
November 27, 2013
November 25, 2013 - Hour 2 - Scholar, activist, and author Barbara Ransby will talk about her latest book, Eslanda:The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a biography on the wife of famed actor and activist Paul Robeson.
November 25, 2013
November 22, 2013 - Segment 3 - We're launching another new series today called The World of the Play. Marc is moderating a panel at Everyman Theatre for every play this season, and the first one happened last weekend. The panel was about the play currently showing at Everyman Theatre, Red, about the painter Mark Rothko and his assistant. The panelists are: Kristen Hileman, Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Donald Hicken, Director of Red; and Daniel Ettinger, Scenic Designer of Red.
November 25, 2013
November 21, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with the newest production at the Baltimore Theatre Project, "Garbage for Plums," based on a traditional Bulgarian folklore fairy tale about a man who wanted to find a good and caring wife for himself and chose a rather strange but clever way to go about it.
November 21, 2013
November 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - We take a look at "This Week in City Paper," with Senior Editor Baynard Woods, including the 2013 Holiday Gift Guide and "IN THE RED ZONE: ESPN Zone employees, abruptly laid off three years ago, get meager payday."
November 19, 2013
November 15, 2013 - Segment 4 - Marc and co-host Lea Gilmore discuss the life and work of artist Romare Bearden with Leslie King-Hammond, who gave a lecture about Romare Bearden and women as agents of change, authority and beauty. Click here for a collection of images of Bearden's work.
November 19, 2013
November 15, 2013 - Segment 3 - Marc talks to Rebecca Walker about her newest novel, Adé: A Love Story. She was named by Time Magazine as one of the fifty most influential American leaders under forty and she received the Woman Who Could Be President award from the League of Women Voters.
November 19, 2013
November 15, 2013 - Segment 2 - Artists reveal how their work was born of war. Featured are authors Tim O’Brien ("The Things They Carried"), Bao Ninh (The Sorrow of War), and Wayne Karlin (Crossover, Lost Armies).
November 19, 2013
November 14, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out our show at 10:30 with a discussion on an important movie that will be shown Thursday night at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Free Angela and All Political Prisoners. We will talk with Jarvis Tyner, long time friend of Angela Davis, Executive Vice-Chair of the Communist Party USA and founding member of the Black Radical Congress.
November 19, 2013
November 14, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk with historian, writer, appraiser and collector Dr. Philip J. Merrill about an exhibit at Baltimore's Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard & Shirley Kinsey - Where Art & History Intersect.
November 14, 2013
November 13, 2013 - Segment 3 - We take a look at this week's City Paper, with Baynard Woods, Senior Editor. This week's features include a look at homeless policy ("Gimme Shelter") and a story about how police lied for Baltimore raid warrant to arrest an innocent man.
November 12, 2013
November 8, 2013 - Segment 2 - Marc speaks with hip hop artist and Muslim-American Hamza Perez, subject of the documentary New Muslim Cool. He speaks about the growing population of Latino Muslims and what it means to make music for social change.
November 7, 2013
November 7, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with Wil Hylton, journalist and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, whose new book is Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II.
November 7, 2013
November 6, 2013 - Segment 4 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us for an update on what's in the City Paper this week, including a feature, "HOT GREASE: The high-powered hunt is on for slippery thieves who steal restaurants’ used cooking oil,"
November 7, 2013
November 6, 2013 - Segment 2 - We begin with a discussion of the film 12 Years A Slave and wrestle with whether or not this is more than just another movie about the experience of slavery.
November 5, 2013
November 5, 2013 - Segment 4 - We talk with author Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University, about her book Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, which focuses on a small group of white women who crossed the color line and played controversial yet significant roles in the Harlem Renaissance.
November 5, 2013
November 1, 2013 - Segment 4 - We talk with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of Baltimore's CenterStage Theatre, and Marcus Gardley, poet-playwright and 2012 James Baldwin Fellow, about the current production at CenterStage - written by Gardley and directed by Kwei-Armah - dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory. The play is about a Blues man living through the memories of his past, and his encounter with his estranged grandson.
November 4, 2013
November 1, 2013 - Segment 2 - Did you know that Jet (1951), Ebony (1945), and The Crisis (1910) magazines were all founded on November 1? We discuss those publications with Dr. Todd S. Burroughs, writer, consultant, and independent researcher, and explore this important date in Black media history.
October 31, 2013
October 31, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's time for The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder! National Book Award-winning novelist and scholar Dr. Charles Johnson will be talking about the book that he and his daughter co-authored, the first in a series, titled Bending Time: The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder (Volume 1), about a Black child prodigy and scientific “whiz kid.”
October 31, 2013
October 31, 2013 - Segment 2 - We bring you a special musical treat – Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz Ethel Ennis will be in-studio along with her husband, writer and former Baltimore Sun reporter Earl Arnett, and pianist, songwriter, producer, and Baltimore native Cyrus Chestnut.
October 31, 2013
October 30, 2013 - Segment 5 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods gives us an update on what's in the City Paper this week, including a feature, including "The Ghosts of World War II: Baltimore writer Wil Hylton goes deep to solve a decades-old mystery."
October 31, 2013
October 30, 2013 - Segment 4 - Grace Aneiza Ali, founder and editorial director of OF NOTE Magazine; Miriam Romais, Editor of the Nueva Luz Journal; and Keisha Scarville, Photographer; join us to talk about this issue of Nueva Luz, which features under-the-radar Guyanese women photographers and their work.
October 30, 2013
October 29, 2013 - Segment 2 We host a cultural roundtable, where the topics will range from racist Halloween costumes to art, film and music.
October 24, 2013
October 23, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with students from Everyman Theatre’s High School Summer Acting Intensive, performing scenes from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
October 18, 2013
October 18, 2013 - Hour 2 - We bring you an interview from this spring's CityLit Festival with Jamal Joseph, activist, urban guerrilla, FBI's most wanted fugitive, poet, and filmmaker, who discusses his memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention. He is currently chair of Columbia's School of the Arts film division.
October 18, 2013
October 18, 2013 - Hour 1 - Bestselling and award-winning novelist Walter Mosley joins us in-studio to talk about his new book Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery.
October 17, 2013
October 17, 2013 - Hour 2 - Author Andrea Stuart talks about her book Sugar in the Blood: A Family's History of Slavery and Empire, which details the history of both sides - black and white, master and slave - of her Caribbean family, dating back to a sugar plantation in the 1630s.
October 16, 2013
October 16, 2013 - Hour 2 - We are joined in-studio by Marshall C. Bell, host of Midday Magazine with Marshall Bell on WOLB-AM and managing partner of The Bell Group, LLC, to talk about his latest novel, Baltimore Blues: Harm City.
October 16, 2013
October 16, 2013 - Hour 1 - Have you ever read Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved? Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner? Captain Underpants? Then you have read a banned book! We observe Banned Books Week, a week celebrating the freedom to read.
October 15, 2013
October 15, 2013 - Hour 2 - In the latest episode of Sound Bites, we look at how "Big Food" has lured us into eating high-fat, low-nutrition foods over the past century, when Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss joins us to discuss his book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.