Hey Baltimore

Hollie Stephenson is Head Brewer at the Guinness Open Gate Brewery just outside Baltimore. What is it like to be part of such an iconic brand? How did she get into brewing? And, what exactly does the term craft beer mean, anyway? This Downtown Baltimore resident and 2019 Imbibe Magazine Beer Person of the Year drops some knowledge and sips some breakfast beers with us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With bands like Centro-Matic and Monsters of Folk, Austin musician Will Johnson has played the biggest stages in the country but we caught up with him before a show at one of his favorite venues, the living room of his friend, Baltimore architect Scott Vieth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our hour-long interview with the team behind the Night Brunch phenomenon posted earlier this week. This is a companion interview as they launch the first-ever Night Brunch Festival on October 5 and 6. Sit back and enjoy this quick look into what makes these events so special and how they are maybe the most representative Baltimore event going. Cheers! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

They produce Baltimore's hottest roving party, Night Brunch, and are about to debut a multi-day festival of music and food. Last summer their charity, Summer Lunch, served 2,200 meals to kids in west Baltimore. The duo behind these efforts joins our first feature film-length podcast. Settle in while Jason Bass and DJ Impulse drop the needle on some Truth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Helena del Pesco trained at Chez Panisse and staged at the Michelin-starred Arzak. After traveling the world, she is putting down roots with a new Baltimore restaurant, Larder. We talk food, fermentation, and her philosophy about becoming a chef on this edition of Hey Baltimore. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nick Miller is a serial entrepreneur from Baltimore who just left Facebook to start a new CBD beverage company with, as fate would have it, two other serial entrepreneurs from Baltimore. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Country Music Award-winning radio host, Jeff St. Pierre, is a proud Baltimore implant. In this wide-ranging interview he talks about his unexpected life in Baltimore, the community behind country music, and what it's like to be on air every morning at 5 am. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dominic Wiker transforms old buildings in marginal neighborhoods into community destinations with apartments, artist space, and entrepreneurial incubators. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Go behind the scenes of the world-famous Cirque du Soleil. Each performance is a multi-sensory spectacle of music, dance, and acrobatics supported by a traveling city with hundreds people, complicated logistics, and multicultural traditions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We get bubble drunk with the inimitable Charisse Nichols who never waited a table before becoming GM at one of Baltimore's premiere restaurants. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Books are dead. Or are they? Emma Snyder, who just took over Baltimore's beloved Ivy Bookshop, explains why a personal experience built around a physical object still matters in a digital marketplace See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We never thought about locally and ethically sourcing cut flowers until we met Ellen Frost, who explains why most flowers no longer have any smell, and what that has to do with cocaine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sofia Alvarez, is living something of a dream. The new mom lives in a converted chocolate factory and is wrapping up the script for a sequel to the Netflix film, To All the Boys I've Loved Before. She talks about adapting the popular young adult novels into a screenplay, and how growing up in Baltimore informed her powers of observation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

His restaurant, Ekiben, was just named one of the 100 best in the US. Executive Dishwasher, co-owner, and chef, Steve Chu,stops in for a beer to celebrate. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick Rife, an entrepreneur behind one of Baltimore's hottest start-ups talks about the DIY ethos that drives both him and the company. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

International DJ, coffee junkie, and co-host of Baltimore Night Brunch, DJ Impulse talks about his craft, the Baltimore Club scene, and how he balances family life with a job that keeps him out nights in clubs around the globe. And then he poisons us with 500,000 scoville units of hot sauce. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Executive Director of Blue Water Baltimore Jennifer Aiosa is of the Chesapeake region’s greatest advocates. She discusses her work and why each of should positively impact the environment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A gut feeling spurred Erin Douglas to leave her financial job in New York City and follow her dream of becoming a professional photographer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you have Instagram and love cities, you may want to join the 28,000 people already following #TheBmoreCreatives. The team behind the tag tells us how they built their virtual following and are transforming it into a real community. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Baltimore's art scene is as fertile as it is unpretentious, and few people know it better than our guest, Cara Ober of Bmore Art. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.

Local journalist and Baker Award-winning author, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, takes us into the bizarre world of a millionaire heiress who used dolls to develop the field of forensic science. We also talk about being a writer in Baltimore, the supportive community, and how she's building a national profile from coffee shops in Hampden. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Experimental, accessible, cheap, and provocative. Charm City Fringe Festival is all these things and more. We explore Baltimore's theater underground and learn what to expect when the Fringe Fest comes to the Bromo Arts District for the first time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you go from around 700 Instagram followers to almost 34,000 in less than a year? Plant stylist, artist, and re-patrioted Baltimorean, Hilton Carter, joins us to talk about how he did it, why he moved back to his hometown, and the growing #jungalostyle movement. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We take the show on the road to B-More Kitchen, a business incubator that supports many of Baltimore's favorite caterers, food trucks, and farmers market purveyors with the equipment, space, and support they need to grow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We talk with MD Historical Society Marketing Director Q Ragsdale about moving to Baltimore from Texas and the incredible new fall exhibitions at MDHS. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You're doing things right when you can tout award-winning digital ad content " amazing Belgian waffles as professional achievements. Planit's Matt Doud sat down to talk about his agency, his love for Baltimore, and opening a coffee shop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Claudia Towles' professional and personal lives are almost indistinguishable. Her shop- aMuse Toys- her home, her family, and her new career in real estate are all woven together in her beloved Fells Point. She sits down with us to talk about her decidedly Baltimore life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After famously leaving her native Brooklyn for Pigtown, author and chef Allison Robicelli talks Baltimore Restaurant Week (JUly 28-August 6). Her advice? Fancy lunches. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Alima spends his days surrounded by ice cream, his wife, and the blissed-out customers of Hampden gem, The Charmery. We may have found the happiest man in Baltimore. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We talk with Elan Kotz who helped bring The Food Market (and with it a wave of excellent restaurants) to Hampden, and who is now working on Blikkee- an app that connects travelers to locals for a hyper-curated experience. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We spoke with Emilie Carter of Design Collective about urban design trends, rooftop gardening tips, and what it's like to be obsessed with plants.#gardening #urbangardening #Baltimore #architecture #design See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.