Dropping in on the folks who make Baltimore Baltimore, six writers collected stories from the streets, playgrounds, porches, clinics, and jails for a sketch of life in our city today
(reprinted from The New York Times) For more than a century, researchers have been trying to work out the raw ingredients that account for personality, the sweetness and neuroses that make anna anna, the sluggishness and sensitivity that make andrew andrew. they have largely ignored the first-person explanation—
Once upon a time in a city far, far away, a daily newspaper had to be redesigned. “We need to be more attuned to contemporary concerns,” the editor-in-chief told his bewildered staff as he added color photos, banner headlines, happy pictures of clowns, and controversial editorials about the city’s most burning issues, like the need for more traffic lights
The August issue is devoted to stories: how we tell them, why we tell them, and the important roles they play in our lives. To shape the theme, we turned to a man who's made a life out of broadcasting the stories of a city and its residents: 88.1 WYPR's Marc Steiner, host of The Marc Steiner Show.
Dropping in on the folks who make Baltimore Baltimore, six writers collected stories from the streets, playgrounds, porches, clinics, and jails for a sketch of life in our city today