Hey Baltimore

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.

Dominic Wiker transforms old buildings in marginal neighborhoods into community destinations with apartments, artist space, and entrepreneurial incubators.

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.

We get bubble drunk with the inimitable Charisse Nichols who never waited a table before becoming GM at one of Baltimore's premiere restaurants.

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

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.

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.

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.

Patrick Rife, an entrepreneur behind one of Baltimore's hottest start-ups talks about the DIY ethos that drives both him and the company.

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.

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.

A gut feeling spurred Erin Douglas to leave her financial job in New York City and follow her dream of becoming a professional photographer.

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.

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.

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.