Radio From Downtown (RFD), the Eastern Shore's take on the classic radio variety show returns to Easton's Avalon Theatre on Halloween night. An RFD taping is sort of Prairie Home meets Marx Bros in a place that, from time to time, still threatens to secede from the rest of Maryland.
The brainchild of NPR's Van Williamson, [...]

During a recent interview with This American Life host Ira Glass, I asked about his favorite storytellers. Here's his list...
Errol Morris
Michael Lewis ("especially The Blind Side")
Malcolm Gladwell
Jack Hitt
David Sedaris
"The guys who put together The Wire" (David Simon, Ed Burns, etc)
"The guys who did Battlestar Galactica, which is a work of genius storytelling and, sometimes, [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?

I didn’t see it this way at the time, but, in retrospect, I think Fiddler on the Roof changed my life. My mom used to take my sisters and me to the musicals at Painters [...]

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Stoop Storytelling, the popular series featuring locals telling stories about themselves, returns to Centerstage this week, July 9-11, for a series of live radio shows called "Baltimoored: Summer in the City."
According to Stoop organizers, the shows will "celebrate being stuck in Baltimore for the summer, waxing poetic (and comedic) about steamed crabs, sno-ball stands, duckpin [...]

John Waters turned up on PRI's The Takeaway yesterday talking about his new art exhibition, Rear Projection, which opened last week at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. His usual witty and urbane self, Waters discusses various pieces, including sculptures inspired by Ike and Tina Turner, roach traps, and facial cream. A concurrent show of [...]

WTMD has launched an all-Baltimore music radio station at 89.7 FM/HD-2 and on-line at wtmd.org. Apparently, it's the first public radio station to air local artists 24/7. You might want to take a few minutes to visit their site and browse the video and audio archives, especially the "Local Music Player." Check out the Caleb [...]

Radio From Downtown—the Eastern Shore radio show that Jim Duffy profiled for us a few years ago— returns February 21, after an 18-month hiatus. RFD is always a lot of fun, and here's the skinny on the new show from RFD creator Van Williamson, a producer at NPR. (Williamson is pictured with NPR's Susan Stamberg [...]