radio industry

• Features

StoryCorps mobile booth arrives at MICA to collect stories of ordinary Baltimoreans

For four weeks, the StoryCorps mobile storytelling booth will be parked outside MICA, ready to record what you and someone you love have to say to each other.

By Mary Carole McCauley

May 19, 2016

• Obituaries

Deborah Davis, longtime WYPR employee, dies at 61

Deborah Davis, a longtime employee of WYPR public radio station with a passion for theatre, music and equality, died on Dec. 23 at Gilchrist Hospice Care after battling cancer. She was 61.

• Dining and Drinking

Boosters say growing Towson needs its own development rules

The booming Towson area is so different from other Baltimore County neighborhoods that one county councilman thinks it needs its own zoning classification.

By Pamela Wood

Dec 14, 2014

• Baltimore City Paper

Stuff White People Like to Write About

• Howard County

Family, friends remember Columbia man who died in Liberia as 'full of life'

To his family, Nathaniel Dennis' life began as a wonder.

• Obituaries

Elizabeth C. Bellavance, activist

Elizabeth C. Bellavance, educator, social activist and patron of the academic and arts communities, died July 24 of cancer at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. She was 77.

• Howard County

Unable to access better care amid ebola outbreak, Columbia man dies in Liberia

A Howard County man has passed away in Liberia after he slipped into a coma and was unable to be evacuated for medical care amidst fears of an ebola outbreak abroad, his sister said Thursday.

• College Sports

Towson looks to expand its brand by partnering with CBS Radio

Towson athletic director Tim Leonard hopes that the broadcast of the Tigers' regular-season games for the football and men's basketball on 1300 AM expands the school's athletic brand.

• News

Baltimore man gets life sentence, but not forgiveness

When Marie Seale thinks of seeing her 29-year-old husband being shot and killed in her Northeast Baltimore apartment, forgiveness is the last thing on her mind.

• Lifestyle and Leisure

Once a 'little dive,' Chaps now a pit beef legend

Pit beef is a long-standing Baltimore tradition but making a business model work hasn't been easy. For a while, the stretch of U.S. 40 in eastern Baltimore and Baltimore County was known as "pit beef row," with Chaps, Big Al's and Big Fat Daddy's calling the strip home. Chaps is still there — and is a Baltimore legend.

• Sports

Baltimore-area natives lift Uganda to success in world lacrosse championships

Andrew Boston wore a headlamp so that he could walk to the bus stop at night. He carried a lacrosse stick to ward off wild dogs, and then he waited for a bus that or might not come.

• Harford

Celebrate Iced Tea Month at HdG summer concert in the park

June is National Iced Tea Month, so pack up the cooler with sweet tea to take to the Friday concert in Tydings Park, tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m.

• Baltimore City Paper

WYPR radio staff files for union representation

• Baltimore City Paper

WILD PITCH

• Baltimore City Paper

The Short List: 6/18/14

• Baltimore City

How 'hons' came to be and other tales from the 20th annual HonFest in Hampden

Coverage of HonFest 2014 includes St. Luke's Lutheran Church, on The Avenue, holding Sunday services on the lawn to take advantage of HonFest and nice weather.

• Maryland

50 years after The Beatles on 'Ed Sullivan': Documentary, tribute band show Beatles as popular as ever

• Harford

Four Harford councilmen seeking re-election face varying degrees of opposition

The four members of the Harford County Council who are running for re-election this year face varying degrees of opposition to hold onto their seats ranging from none, to very little to some.

• Baltimore City Paper

Readers Poll

• Harford

Dangers of sniffing glue highlighted by state medical examiner [50 years ago]

As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, June 11, 1964

• Baltimore City Paper

The Video for Kelly Rowland's "Like This"

• Baltimore City Paper

Club Music Legend Dumps Entire Record Library

• Baltimore City Paper

The End of Net Neutrality

• Baltimore City Paper

X-Content: 10 Years Ago in City Paper: Jan. 15, 2003

• Baltimore City Paper

Weekend Notes: DNA Test Fest II

• Baltimore City Paper

"Raise Your Hands if You Got $20 In Your Pocket": Artscape, My Crew Be Unruly party, DJ Culture Stage, and Paradox, July 18

• Baltimore City Paper

Truth in Advertising

• Baltimore City Paper

Barking Back: Pit Bull Advocates Rally to the Breed's Defense After 98 Rock DJ's Comments

• Baltimore City Paper

What's good this weekend?: Renoir Returns, Club Mnemonic, Mobb Deep

• Baltimore City Paper

Told You So

• Baltimore City Paper

The Club Beat Remembers DJ K-Swift With Club Queen Entertainment

• Baltimore City Paper

Can Matthew Perry Go On?

• Baltimore City Paper

Ten Years Ago in City Paper: March 27, 2002

• Baltimore City Paper

The Club Beat: The Year in Baltimore Club

• Baltimore City Paper

DNA Test Fest: Free music festival July 25 and 26 in College Park

• Baltimore City Paper

Because Kids Love the Grateful Dead (with correction): bTeams Up With WTMD

• Baltimore City Paper

The Club Beat with DJ Diamond K

• Baltimore City Paper

Is this a good story?

• Baltimore City Paper

Atwater's in Mount Washington

• Baltimore City Paper

Sun's b magazine plays fast and loose with story attribution

• Politics and Government

Brown's media money goes to Baltimore market

In race for governor, Anthony Brown is spending more heavily than Douglas Gansler in the Baltimore broadcast market. But the two candidates' overall media spending is almost the same.

• Politics

Democratic governor hopefuls debate with front-runner absent

With the front-runner in the race conspicuously absent, Democratic gubernatorial candidates Douglas F. Gansler and Heather R. Mizeur disagreed – politely – during a debate Tuesday night, with Gansler saving the brunt of his criticism for missing Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.

• Opinion

Ray Rice news conference was a media disaster

Ray Rice's Friday press conference was one of those media events I wanted to give myself some time to think about.

• Maryland

Jim Lee: Country left on autopilot will soon crash

• Howard County

Ellicott City resident prepares to call Saturday's Preakness

If you go Preakness 2014 this weekend, odds are you'll recognize the voice calling the race. That's because the voice belongs to Dave Rodman, who has called the Preakness — and every other horse race at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, except when he was sick or on vacation — every year since 1991. "I've never really put a number to it," said Rodman, when asked to estimate how many races he's called. "I'm not trying to break any world records or anything."

• Opinion

Memo to TV stations: Airing candidate debates a civic duty

What a sorry state of affairs I discovered last week when I started reporting the TV aspect of the first Democratic gubernatorial debate.

• Opinion

From Ray Rice to Donald Sterling, TMZ keeps getting very big sports stories

With Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice back in the news and Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling all over it this week, I have to revisit this post I wrote on TMZ in February, when the Rice-allegedly-knocks-his-then-fiancee-unconscious story first broke.

• Politics

Brown accused of ducking debates; just two by Democrats set for TV

A Valentine's Day agreement among the Democrats running for governor to cooperate on setting up debates collapsed Wednesday as his rivals accused front-runner Anthony G. Brown of ducking a third televised encounter.

• Politics

Gansler, Mizeur campaigns accuse Brown of ducking third televised debate

Gansler, Mizeur campaigns accuse Anthony Brown of ducking third televised debate. But Brown campaign says he is abiding by original plan.

• Television Industry

Ed Kiernan stepping down as head of WBAL/WIYY radio

After 45 years in the radio business, Ed Kiernan Friday told the staff at WBAL that he will be retiring this summer as head of radio stations WBAL-AM and WIYY-FM.