Baltimore Residents Blame Record-High Murder Rate On Lower Police Presence LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: This year, Baltimore has had well over 300 murders for the third year in a row. Some activists say the high murder rate is because police have backed off...
LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: Bakers, this is your season. The dough is rising, family's gathering all around, and for once, no one is concerned about carbs. We've got a challenge for you. It's called the Friendship Bread Project, and it's sort of like a chai...
LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: It's 1992. Your hair is gelled up, you're sporting high-tops, maybe still listening to Run-DMC on cassette, and that's the setting for a new coming-of-age novel that's also a look at race in America. The book, titled Green, follo...
LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: When you hear the Spanish word quinceanera, you might think of poufy, pink dresses, big, boisterous family parties and a traditional rite of passage for 15-year-old Latina girls. A new HBO documentary series takes us inside the m...
LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: Time now for The Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) FRAYER: Last week, we asked you for your stories about paying it forward - an act of kindness that spreads from one person to another. Here are three that warmed our hearts. A warm m...
The True Story Of A Spanish Royal And The Very High Voice That Healed Him RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Let's hear about a new play on Broadway starring Oscar-and-Tony-Award-winning actor Mark Rylance. It's called Farinelli And The King, and it's set in 18th cen...
LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: For New Year's Eve, the musical tradition has long been this old chestnut... (SOUNDBITE OF GUY LOMBARDO AND HIS ROYAL CANADIANS' PERFORMANCE OF AULD LANG SYNE) FRAYER: If Guy Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne is decidedly, w...
How Crime Rates In New York City Reached Record Lows RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Not long ago, New York City in movies and TV shows, in music and in the popular imagination, was a dangerous, chaotic and disorderly place. The number of murders in New York peake...
