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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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