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Welcome to this Summer Solstice edition of Midday. Today is the longest day of the year, and the official beginning of summer, and for all that summer has to recommend it, it is also a time when crime typically spikes in cities throughout the United States. Like cities across the country, Baltimore continues to reel from brazen acts of violence in communities across our city. A 15 year-old from Howard County has been arrested and charged with shooting into a crowd at the Inner Harbor over Memorial Day Weekend. One person died and two others were injured. 25 year-old Army Reserve Sergeant Ryan Harris was killed near his apartment on Calvert Street. Trevor White, a 40 year-old bar owner who helped develop communities in East Baltimore as part of ReBuild Metro, was killed in Northeast Baltimore. Three weeks ago, 83 year-old Marjorie Tyson was struck in the arm by a stray bullet while she sat in bed reading. Over the weekend, five people were killed and 10 were injured. We are running out of ways to describe this level of mayhem. For years, official after official has described crime in Baltimore as “out of control,” as voters elect them, time after time, on their promises to control it. Tom's Newsmaker guest today is Baltimore City Police Commissioner Michael S. Harrison. He was appointed as our city's top cop in 2019 after successfully overseeing a decrease in crime as the police chief in his native city of New Orleans. Commissioner Harrison joins us regularly to let us know what the police are doing to address the problems that according to a recent poll are the top concern of 90% of our citizens. To reach the Baltimore City Police Department's Illegal Dirt Bikes Tip Line, call: 443-902-4474. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the afternoon of July 11, 1953, the Chairman of the Maryland Board of Movie Censors emerged from the viewing room, the fifth floor of the Equitable Building on Calvert Street, and made an announcement that shook the town: the Board would not allow the movie “The Moon Is Blue” to be shown. What happened next was historic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom in the studio for another of her weekly reviews of the Maryland stage. Today, she tells us about Dracula, a haunting adaptation of Bram Stoker’s seminal 1897 vampire novel that opens Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's 2019 season. Adapted by Steven Dietz and directed in the CSC's ornate theater space by Gerald Alex Taylor, the play unfolds in a sanatorium, as a series of sinister events reveals the presence of the greatest vampire of all time. The cast includes Michael P. Sullivan, reprising his 2013 CSC performance as Dracula; Hannah Kelly as the Count's love interest, Mina Murray; and Scott Alan Small as Renfield, the asylum patient. Emily Lotz designed the sets, and Kristina Lambdin designed the costumes.Speaking of blood...On Thursday, October 17, from 1 to 6pm, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will host Dracula’s Blood Drive, a community blood donation at the CSC acting studio in the heart of downtown, at 206 East Redwood Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202. It’s easy to make an appointment to donate: Visit redcrossblood.org and enter the blood drive password: SHAKESPEARE. Walk-ins are welcome.Lesley Malin, CSC's Managing Director, says all donors to Dracula’s Blood Drive will receive a voucher good for 20 percent off regular-priced tickets to Dracula, which continues at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater, located at 7 S. Calvert Street (at Redwood Street), in Baltimore, MD 21202, through November 2, 2019.

On the afternoon of July 11, 1953, the Chairman of the Maryland Board of Movie Censors emerged from the viewing room, the fifth floor of the Equitable Building on Calvert Street, and made an announcement that shook the town: the Board would not allow the movie “The Moon Is Blue” to be shown. What happened next was historic.

In this year-in-review episode of the Roughly Speaking podcast, our last of 2018, columnist Dan Rodricks speaks with Triffon G. ----Trif---- Alatzas, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Sun Media Group, about the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis and its aftermath. Alatzas talks about the day of the horror, the response of police, the community and other news organizations, and how the Capital recovered from the loss of four veteran journalists -- Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen -- and advertising assistant Rebecca Smith. Alatzas also talks about the move of the Sun's operations out of its long-time Calvert Street headquarters to Sun Park in Port Covington.

Tom's guest today is the playwright, director and actor, Kwame Kwei Armah, OBE. He has been the artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage since 2011, but he will soon be moving on. After his final show at Center Stage, which opens tomorrow night, he’s heading home to London, where he has taken the helm of the storied Young Vic Theatre.During his tenure here in Baltimore, he produced three of the best-selling shows in the theater’s history. As a playwright, Kwei-Armah premiered several new works here in Charm City, and he made great strides in diversifying the Center Stage audience. He also oversaw a major, $28 million renovation of the theater’s Calvert Street home, and in his spare time, in 2012, Queen Elizabeth II made him an Officer of the British Empire for his service to drama.His final production at Center Stage -- a world premiere of a work by playwright Matthew Benjamin that Kwame is directing--is Soul, the STAX Musical, It tells the story of Memphis-based Stax Records, and chronicles the rise of artists like Otis Redding, The Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and The MG’s, Wilson Pickett and others—some of the great and early progenitors of Soul and R----B music. Midday's theater critic J Wynn Rousuck joins Kwame and Tom in Studio A. We streamed this conversation live on the WYPR Facebook page. If you missed that, click here to check out the video.

Cheers everyone, we're talking real ale today! Greg heads to MacLeod Ale Brewing Company in Van Nuys, CA to talk with the owners Jennifer and Alastair as well as head brewer David Chaney. They discuss the history of MacLeods, the idea of the brewer, why they specialize in cask ales, how the ended up in Van Nuys, and more! In addition, they delve into everyone's personal history, find out why Jennifer the music major decided to open a brewery, get the background on David and his brewing, discuss European beer and all other things beer and MacLeod's!They also talk about upcoming beer releases, their Scottish Day event on January 25, 2018, and so much more!You can find MacLeod Ale at 14741 Calvert Street in Van Nuys, CA or get them online at www.macleodale.com and MacLeodAle on social media. A huge thank you to Jennifer, Alastair, and David for taking the time to talk about some great beer, make sure you let them know you heard them on The Unfiltered Gentlemen!We love ratings & reviews on iTunes! And don't forget to check us out at www.theunfilteredgentlemen.com, www.facebook.com/unfilteredgentlemen, @unfilteredgents on twitter and TheUnfilteredGentlemen on Instagram! You can also call in (805) 538-BEER, we'd love to hear from you!

On the afternoon of July 11, 1953, the Chairman of the Maryland Board of Movie Censors emerged from the viewing room, the fifth floor of the Equitable Building on Calvert Street, and made an announcement that shook the town: the Board would not allow the movie ?The Moon Is Blue? to be shown. What happened next was historic.