Midday

Host Tom Hall had some parting reflections as he brought today's final edition of Midday to a close.

City Council President Zeke Cohen joins host Tom Hall on this final edition of Midday to talk about some key city issues, including a ban on data centers, proliferating smoke shops and a welcome hike in salaries for city employees.

Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott joins Tom in Studio A for their final edition of 'Midday with the Mayor,' their monthly conversations about key issues facing City Hall and the people of Baltimore.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, in her last Midday review, spotlights Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, the final production of retiring Everyman Theatre founder, Vincent Lancisi.

Kim Wehle, University of Baltimore Law professor and constitutional expert, joins Tom to analyze today's arguments at the Supreme Court over President Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship.

The Maryland Film Festival opens next Wednesday, April 8 and continues through Sunday, April 12. It’s returning to the spring after an experimental move to the fall last year. Jed Dietz founded the festival and directed it for nearly two decades. Now KJ Mohr directs the festival, as well as  programming at the SNF Parkway Theatre. They joined Midday to discuss what's ahead. Their conversation was pre-empted on air by NPR special coverage of oral argument before the Supreme Court, but you can listen here at WYPR.org.

Baltimore Public Media’s Program Director, Maxie Jackson, joins Tom to discuss Midday’s cancellation on April 2nd, and new programs to come at WYPR.

Sharon Mashihi, the daughter of Jewish Iranian immigrants to the US, talks with Tom about exploring the diaspora’s conflicted wartime emotions — in her podcast and in her own life.

Aaron David Miller, Mideast policy analyst and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Tom to discuss what an end to the US-Israeli war on Iran might look like.

Singer-songwriter Jayla Elise Diggs – who sang in a recent state senate committee hearing – and Banner columnist Rick Hutzell discuss Maryland's search for a new state song.

WYPR health reporter Scott Maucione speaks with guest host Carla Hayden about efforts to limit the city's smoke shop businesses.

WYPR State House reporter Sarah Petrowich joins guest host Carla Hayden with the latest on the vehement debate over Gov. Moore’s plan to redraw Maryland's congressional districts.

Baltimore Banner criminal justice reporter Ben Conark talks with WYPR's Scott Maucione about efforts to block the opening of a DHS immigrant detention center near Williamsport.

Healthcare journalist Dan Gorenstein and REACH Health Services' medical director Dr. Malik Burnett discuss the unique treatment options for opioid-addicted seniors.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms," a darkly satirical puppet show at Baltimore's Theatre Project.

Conductor Eun Sun Kim joins us to talk about her twin concerts this week, leading the BSO on “A Hero’s Journey” of music by Strauss and Schumann.

Vincent Lancisi launched Everyman Theatre in October 1990. He talks with Tom about why he’s retiring in June and the legacy he has built for theater arts in Baltimore.

Josh Panepento and Trevor Gomes, students at UMd's Povich Center for Sports Journalism, discuss their new documentary about the history of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

WYPR reporter Wambui Kamau, who has covered the Key Bridge story, updates us on rebuilding plans and efforts to support families and communities hurt by the collapse.

Transportation Security officer Robert Williams describes the challenges at Baltimore's busy BWI airport, where a TSA workforce has gone a month without pay.

"On the Record" author Anna Harwell Celenza joins Tom to discuss the songs that have been social and political catalysts throughout American history.

Karl Alexander, a No Kings Day organizer, joins us with perspectives on next Saturday's planned street demonstrations here in Baltimore and across the nation.

Shari Bailey, who founded Laila's Gift, explains why her non-profit is supporting a bill to build new and stronger protections for citizens with mental disabilities like dementia or autism.

WYPR's State House reporter Sarah Petrowich updates us on which proposals have been passed by the House and Senate in time for Monday's Crossover Day deadline.

WYPR reporter Wambui Kamau tells us about the entrepreneur who's making waves in the hair-braiding space with her salon in Bowie that's open for business 24/7.

Imam Yaseen Shaikh with the Islamic Society of Baltimore says that as war rages in the Middle East, his Muslim community is marking Ramadan's end with both sadness and joy.

WYPR's Baltimore County reporter John Lee joins us to size up the county's crowded primary election field, plus key questions facing the council and the General Assembly.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new Motte & Bailey production of "Caesar / Americana" at the Fells Point Corner Theatre

John Davis, host of MotorWeek, TV's longest running automotive series, joins us with tips on car care, and insights on the fast-changing global auto industry.

Two local members of the Iranian diaspora in America join Tom to discuss the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, and their concerns for the future of that country.

Iranian-born political analyst Trita Parsi joins Tom to discuss the policy twists and turns that have led to the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, and what's next for the Iranian people.

Writer and filmmaker John Sayles joins Tom to discuss his historical novel, "Crucible," about industrialist Henry Ford’s impact on labor and racial politics 100 years ago.

Maryland Food Bank president and CEO Meg Kimmel discusses how new SNAP work requirements approved last year by Congress could threaten benefits for tens of thousands of Maryland food stamp recipients.

Dr. Jessica Stansbury, an educational technology specialist at University of Baltimore, describes her and her husband's experience during their experiment with an AI "companion."

Reporter Adam Willis, who covers climate and the environment for the Baltimore Banner, joins us to discuss rising energy prices and what the governor and Maryland's Democratic lawmakers plan to do about them.

Javed, an Afghani émigré to the US, and Krish Vignarajah, the president and CEO of Global Refuge, discuss the human impact of the wars in Iran and Afghanistan.

Independent reporter Madeleine O'Neill and Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle co-founder Dayvon Love discuss how juveniles are being charged and housed in Maryland's criminal justice system.

Choirmaster and conductor Doug Buchanan joins us to discuss Sunday's Bach Marathon, and the classic Mass in B Minor that he'll be conducting

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Iron Crow Theatre's new production of the hit Broadway rock musical, 'Next to Normal,' at the M&T Bank Exchange performance space in Baltimore.

David Blight, acclaimed biographer of Frederick Douglass, recalls the famed Black orator's 1852 speech contrasting the promises of our Declaration of Independence with the horrors of slavery.

Maryland's 2nd Dist. Congressman Johnny Olszewski, Jr. (D) joins Midday for an in-depth conversation about key issues affecting Marylanders and the nation.

Author and University of Baltimore historian Joshua Clark Davis joins us to discuss his new history of the 1960s civil rights movement, seen through the lens of its resistance to police violence.

Baltimore City Council President Zeke Cohen joins us for another of his regular Midday interviews on key issues before the City Council and the citizens of Baltimore.

WYPR State House reporter Sarah Petrowich talks with Midday guest host Erica Kane about how lawmakers in Annapolis are moving to limit ICE operations in Maryland.

Banner reporter Lillian Reed talks with Midday guest host Erica Kane about the Howard County government's opposition to a proposed ICE detention warehouse in Elkridge, Maryland

Lyric Baltimore CEO Tom Bailey says many artists cancelling their Kennedy Center bookings have chosen Baltimore venues, and his own theater is hosting the Washington National Opera later this spring.

Pioneering She Got Game podcaster Tandaleya Wilder joins Matt Bush to discuss her two-decade career covering womens' sports, and her Sunday special on WYPR.

The Banner's Orioles columnist John Meoli joins Matt Bush to discuss the O's hopeful new lineup, their performance at Florida camp, and why many O's are playing in this year's World Baseball Classic.

Matt Bush talks about the city's Opioid Restitution Fund grants with WYPR health reporter Scott Maucione, and with one of the grantees: Dr. Danielle Friedman Nestadt, director of Check-It, a drug safety program.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the Baltimore premiere of "Dance Nation," Clare Barron's high-energy drama about young female friendship, rivalry and ambition.