Hey Baltimore

Baltimore band Super City is going places, with new west coast management and a record that' s about to drop. They walk us through tracks from the record, Sanctuary, talk about how their music comes together, and the hustle it takes to be a working band in a digital age. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stoop Storytelling brings people onstage to relate personal anecdotes before an audience of strangers. Like its creators, Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin, the series has become a Baltimore institution. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Baltimore playwright Miranda Rose Hall discusses her new work, Plot Points in our Sexual Development, which debuts at Lincoln Center this fall, and tells us how her creative surroundings growing up in Reservoir Hill led to a blossoming career in theater See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The New York Times wrote that women are making the best rock music and, as proof, they featured our guests, Shwana Potter and Brooks Harlan from the Baltimore-based band War on Women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of Baltimore's top taste-makers, Carmen Brock, grew up on a rural farm and took a circuitous route to owning her popular retail store, Trohv. She talks about the hustle it takes for a brick and mortal store to compete in a digital age. And to think, it all started with a cow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How does a monthly print publication stay current in a digital world that rewards instant, constantly updated content? Baltimore Magazine has been doing this incredibly well in our opinion, and that's thanks largely to Jess Mayhugh. As the publication's digital editor, she can't answer a tech question but she can and does make the publication's website a valuable resource for Baltimore's food, entertainment, sports scenes, and cultural scenes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Corner bars function like living rooms for Baltimore rowhouse dwellers. We tour some favorite with food writer Ryan Detter, and ponder their future amidst gentrifying neighborhoods and the retirement of the moms and pops who run them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin Marshall and Tom Foster, co-founders of Diamondback Brewing Company stop by with some of their beer to taste, talk about their beautiful McHenry Row taproom, national brewery trends, and the (surprisingly complicated) task of naming beers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

She took everything but painting in art school, so how did Erin Fitzpatrick become such a highly sought after portraitist? We talk about the hustle it takes to build a career in fine art and her beloved Orioles on this episode of Hey Baltimore. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peters Inn has been one of Baltimore's consistently best restaurants for decades, but a recent fire dealt the chef-owners, Karin Fuller and Bud Tiffany, a major blow. We process the near tragedy and it's future over gin and fake Baltimore accents. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fashion designer Bishme Cromartie's career is blowing up. He's dressing celebrities, showing at NY Fashion Week, and has his eyes on a Paris show. We sit down with the charming, Baltimore-based couturier to talk about his bright future (and scandalous high school side hustle). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carlos Raba is one of Baltimore's most talented chefs and co-owner of the award-winning Clavel restaurant. Like the restaurant, his food is a family affair that draws heavily on his childhood in Sinaloa. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In part two of our interview with American Visionary Art Museum founder, Rebecca Hoffberger, she takes us on a unique backstage tour of her favorite exhibits. Seeing the galleries through her eyes, and learning about the talented, often troubled people who created the works underscores the healing power of art. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Museum attendance is down across the US, but not at the American Visionary Art Museum, where all the pieces are created by outsider artists. Their work is just the beginning, a launch pad to explore personal demons, the nature of creativity, and the way human beings try to understand the world around them. Founder, Rebecca Hoffberger, shares her curatorial philosophy and walks us through this cabinet of wonders. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pete Ross and Kristina Gaddy, local musicians, historians, and luthiers, explore the roots of an iconic American instrument that isn't actually American at all, and that had a surprising transformation in Baltimore. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hugh Sisson created Maryland's first brew pub at his father's eponymously-named Federal Hill restaurant in the mid-1980s, resurrecting Baltimore's long-dormant local brewing traditions. By the mid-1990s, Hugh founded what would become Heavy Seas Beer, an award-winning craft brewery with distribution up and down the East Coast of the US. We met him in the Heavy Seas Taproom to discuss the craft brewing revival, pick his brain about what to look for in a good beer, and get some valuable insight about his other great passion, wine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Architect Steve Ziger and Post Typography's Bruce Willen talk about their collaboration on the Parkway Theater Restoration, the simple rules that guided the project, what inspired the hot pink accents, and the popcorn that inspired the wallpaper. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey Baltimore ! Ever wanted to hear three people giving themselves a hangover? Neither did we, but that's essentially what happened when the engaging and hilarious founders of Treason Toting Co. joined us in the studio one Friday after work. Aaron and Jason are more than the creatives behind the bespoke, made-in-Baltimore line of backpacks and tote bags. They're relentlessly passionate about what they do, their community of like-minded creatives, and the city where they're building a business they can pass on to their kids See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you break out of a creative rut? The minds at Future Partners are here to help. Their techniques have helped global brands and small community organizations develop ingenious new ways to solve old problems. They call the process Thinking Wrong. We talk to them about how to Think Wrong, and about their work with Baltimore institutions like the Maryland Institute College of Art and, most recently, Loyola University of Maryland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What does it take to channel a Holywood starlet who was also a rocket scientist, or do questionable things with a chicken puppet? Find out as we talk with the many performers behind this year's Charm City Fringe Festival See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.