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It’s The Stoop….Supersized! Seven storytellers will tell tales of holiday hi-jinx. Local musicians Abby Mott, Salim, and Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack of Wye Oak will join the Stoop House Band, Caleb Stine and the Brakemen, onstage. Baltimore’s famed Westsiders Marching Band will be making a ruckus. Plus karaoke caroling and more!
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Storytellers
Kevin KAL Kallaugher
editorial cartoonist
Mary Alice Yeskey
"Ace of Cakes" star and manager of Charm City Cakes
Rafael Alvarez
writer and raconteur
Violet Glaze
writer and film critic
Maria Broom
actress on HBO's "The Wire" and "The Corner", dancer, teacher
Arthur Magida
writer
Sheila Dixon
Mayor of Baltimore
November 10, 2008
Money Changes Everything: Stories about striking it rich, getting by, and going broke
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell how the abundance or absence of cold hard cash can cause change and conflict.
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Storytellers
Aaron Henkin
radio producer
Denis Nash
transportation broker
Peter Schmader
owner of El Rancho Grande
Jennifer Stevens
owner, Clean Bee Cleaning
Joe Challmes
audience storyteller
Janet Gilbert
audience storyteller
Damian Jones
audience storyteller
Brent Halliburton
head of new product development for Platform-A
Nancy Murray
realtor, director, celebrity impersonator
Shaun Adamec
spokesperson for Governor Martin O'Malley
Lilia Rissman
ringbearer
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to talk about the pleasures and pain of life among creatures.
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Storytellers
Terri Diener
animal communicator
Corinne Parks
animal rehabilitator
John Woestendiek
writer
Alan Rosenberg
high school teacher and drama club director
Chuck Ochlech
tournament director, Baltimore Association of Rat Fisherman
Patrick Smithwick
horse trainer, teacher and writer
Beth Manning
dolphin trainer, National Aquarium
Anne Mannix
audience storyteller
Beth Bugnaski
audience storyteller
Stephanie Moss ringmaster
Laura Wexler and Aaron Henkin hosts
Mark Miazga
audience storyteller
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of camp pranks, camp romances, and very scary ghost stories.
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Storytellers
Sarah Richards
writer and radio journalist
Timmy Reed
trolley enthusiast
Gary Godbey
Red Tree professional
Luke Clippinger
Assistant State's Attorney
Michael Paulson
high school English teacher/amateur gadfly
Fred Lohr
attorney
Scott Carberry
restaurant professional
Jay Graham
audience storyteller
Julie Scharper
audience storyteller
Roy Taff
audience storyteller
Donna DeLorenzo
Ring Master
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales about leaving, arriving, and struggling to make a new home in this strange place called Baltimore.
Presented in partnership with The Jewish Museum of Maryland’s Second Annual Herbert H. & Irma B. Risch Memorial Program on Immigration
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Storytellers
Terrylynn Tyrell
special education advocacy and policy consultant
William Wright
artist, and therefore chauffeur
Jason Gerson
public health researcher
Mario Rolando Diaz
driver
Meera Kapoor
student nurse
Inge Weinberger
former director, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Mamadou Sy
program coordinator, Baltimore Resettlement Center
Peter Nobel
catering director
Martha Weiman
audience storyteller
Lisa O'Reilly
audience storyteller
Maryrose Whelley
audience storyteller
Sara Reilly ring thrower
February 11, 2008
Family Secrets: Stories about the Fibs, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies that Bind us Together--and keep us apart.
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to talk about the untruths woven into the DNA of every family.
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Storytellers
Keith Gayler
policy wonk, pirate aficionado
Barbara DeCesare
reluctant paralegal
Lisa Libowitz
writer, storyteller, and woman of a thousand identities
Barbara Dale
illustrator, taste expander and creative baker
Justin Credible
Baltimore's Best Drag King 2007
Sarah Jennings
crafty chick
Steve Luxenberg
writer, Washington Post editor
Maggie Hadley
audience storyteller
Brenda Neuman-Sheldon
audience storyteller
Pamela White
audience storyteller
Joe Yingling
ring master
Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one storyteller wore nothing but a Santa hat. What good tidings will this season bring?
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Storytellers
Elizabeth Adamec dog trainer
Linda Perlstein
writer and former elf
Michelle Mutert
commercial sales director, Kitchens by Design
Jon Harding
grant writer and graduate student
Jonathan Scott Fuqua
young adult author and novelist
Sara Hill
instructional designer
David Ettlin
longtime Baltimore journalist
Gary Godbey
Audience storyteller
Ann Loar Brooks
Audience storyteller
Kate Lupin
Audience storyteller
From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives.
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Storytellers
Sandy Asirvatham
singer, pianist, songwriter
Dovile Mark
stuntwoman
Ken Jackson
host of WYPR's Big Band show, "In the Mood"
Rahne Alexander
songwriter, performer and member of the Degenerettes
Steve Haddad
activist, baseball fanatic and budding Buddhist
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
actress on HBO’s “The Wire”
Jason Dove
indie rocker, filmmaker, and skateboard company owner.
Laura Cappelli
audience storyteller
Keith Gayler
audience storyteller
Jeannette Machen
audience storyteller
Jessica Henkin
co-producer of The Stoop
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form.
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Storytellers
Dana Kollmann
forensic scientist and former Baltimore County Police CSI
Walter Lomax
man wrongfully convicted of murder, freed after 39 years
Anna Ditkoff
City Paper Murder Ink-er
Phil Meeder
Mercedes dealer
Hilary Hansen
writer, mom and serial surgical patient
Stacey Barich
pin-up girl photographer
Mike "The Persecutor" Paschall
professional boxer
Jenny Schnick, Audience storyteller
Mike Paulson, Audience storyteller
Stephen Nunns, Audience storyteller
Phoenix from the flames. Butterfly from the chrysalis. It’s a night of transformation at The Stoop when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of lives re-envisioned and re-made.
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Storytellers
Diane Finlayson
WYPR host and yoga guru
Mick the Pirate
Privateer and former stuntman
Asa
Student and part-time electrician
Joanne Juskus
Singer/songwriter
Hannah Feldman
Baltimore Magazine senior editor
Andre Miller
Co-creator and co-star of A&E series Random 1
It’s an evening of black eyes, wounded hearts, and long-held grudges when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of anger, resentment—and maybe forgiveness.
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Storytellers
Mike Hughes
Writer, designer, and performer
Dale Marie Prenatt
Volunteer coordinator and Appalachian poet
Shelly Blake
Songwriter, teacher, and ex-wrestler
Niki Lee Performance artist
Richard Gorelick
City Paper restaurant critic
Laurel Clark
Graduate student
David Simon
Creator of HBO's "The Wire"
It’s a night of extremes when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of devotion and delusion.
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Storytellers
Andrea Schanbacher
Special Educator
Liz Richardson
Blogger
Richard Ford
Operations manager, Andersen Windows
Rosalia Scalia
Writer and mother
Allison Brown
Teacher
Helen Shafer
Izi Medical Products and Shafer Center CEO
Dave Wurzel
Acupuncturist, interventionist, and engineer
Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each to tell heart-warming (and blood-curdling) holiday yarns.
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Storytellers
Trixie Little
Burlesque artist
Robert Pelrine
Pastoral counselor
Jim Magruder
Writer
Prescott Gaylord
Green builder
Therese Lynch
Etch-a-sketch artist and Speech and Language Pathologist
Bridget Cavaiola
Teacher
Sarah Achenbach
Writer, mom, and wrapping paper addict
An all-male line-up share their scariest stories!
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Storytellers
Mike Subelsky
Navy Lieutenant
Femi "the dri fish"
Performance Poet
Mark Eisendrath
Artist
Brian Flanagan
Baltimore City firefighter
Charlie Wilhelm
Wiseguy-turned-FBI-informant
Tim Paggi
Playwright and copywriter
Josh Granger
Film and TV producer
It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks.
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Storytellers
Ellis Marsalis III
Poet and photographer
Brenda Wolf Smith
Restaurateur
Herman Williams
Former “Montel Williams” producer and sculptor
Cranston Dize
Baltimore City teacher
Tracy Wahl
National Public Radio producer
Jael Freedman
Manicurist
Avi Decter
Director of The Jewish Museum of Maryland
Planes, trains, and automobiles. Adventures and misadventures. Meeting strangers, making friends, parting ways. Missing connections, falling off the map. Discovering new worlds—and yourself. Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales about the power of traveling to disorient, amaze, reveal—and, most importantly, to transform.
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Storytellers
Emily Flake
Lulu Eightball cartoonist
Lee Boot
Filmmaker
Sunni Khalid
WYPR news editor
Catharine Robertson
Information Architect
Heather Moyer
Disaster News Network reporter
Jim Mancini
Speech and Language Pathologist
Jill Blum
Graphic Designer
A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the fam—and nothing is ever the same. Your college roommate loves Black Sabbath; you prefer Enya. Your new cat keeps peeing on your pillow—until you give her Prozac. In “Under one Roof: Stories about Living Together (or trying to),” seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin true tales about cohabitation’s tangled webs.
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Storytellers
Andrea Seabrook
NPR Correspondent
Marc Steiner
Radio Host
JaHipster
Scientist and performance poet
Rupert Wondolowski
Poet, painter, and bookstore owner
Kat Hudson
Freelance writer
Matt Fisher
Dog walker
Kristi Birch
Cat lover and writer
It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Storytelling Series premier, “Legends of the Fall: Stories about Failure.”
Stoop founders Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin host a lineup that includes crime novelist Laura Lippman, WJZ-TV morning host Marty Bass, Walters Art Museum director Gary Vikan and Baltimore magazine senior editor Max Weiss.
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Storytellers
Laura Lippman
Writer
Gary Vikan
Walter's Art Museum Director
Marty Bass
WJZ-TV morning host
Charles Cohen
Freelance writer
Shannon Dunn
Freelance writer
Max Weiss
Baltimore Magazine Editor
Valarie Perez-Schere
Performance artist and mother of three