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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.