Midday Podcast
1) Live in Studio A: Ensemble Galilei, previewing four local concerts
The acclaimed ensemble of traditional musicians performs live in our studio, ahead of their concerts, tonight through Monday, in Annapolis, Baltimore and Rockville.
2) Rousuck's Review: Peterson solos in 'Peculiar Patriot' at Center Stage
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Liza Jessie Peterson's powerful one-woman show about mass incarceration, at Baltimore's Center Stage.
3) As shutdown continues with no end in sight, the ripples bring rough seas to Maryland's shores
WYPR's statehouse reporter Sarah Petrowich covered losses in revenue in Maryland from the government shutdown and Gov. Wes Moore's efforts to right the state's budget.
4) Is vacant land in Baltimore City under valued?
The property tax rate in the city of Baltimore is twice what it is in Baltimore County and other surrounding jurisdictions. The amount of tax that a homeowner or a business pays starts with an ass...Show More
5) An inside look at the Baltimore Banner's investigation into a 'housing hustle' and a spike of foreclosures
In Baltimore City, the residential vacancy rate hovered between 7 and 8 percent in recent years. Now the city’s billion-dollar plan to get a handle on a vacant housing crisis might be sidetracked by a...Show More
6) Keisha Blain's 'Without Fear' chronicles the Black women who have championed human rights
Tom's guest for the hour today is Dr. Keisha N. Blain, a historian and Africana Studies professor at Brown University. She also serves as editor-in-chief of Global Black Thought, a journal of ideas a...Show More
7) The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's music director, one of the youngest in the country, to conduct through 2031
Jonathon Heyward began his tenure as the Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2023, in a five-year contract that established him as one of the youngest Music Directors of a major symp...Show More
8) In 'Never Let Them See You Sweat,' Dr. Leigh Vinocur shows us how to 'harness stress for success'
We begin today with a conversation about stress. It’s part and parcel of all of our lives. And while the downside effects of stress are readily apparent: worry, anxiety, insomnia. Is there an upside t...Show More
9) Dara Horn on the enduring existence of antisemitism
Dara Horn is a writer and Jewish scholar who is slated to give the Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture at Loyola University of Maryland this week.
10) The root of rising healthcare costs for Marylanders, and how it plays into the government shutdown
Veteran health reporter Julie Rovner, Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, joins Midday to bust the myths of healthcare and immigration.