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What was it like to attend Live Aid in 1985?

Baltimore Positive

On July 13, 1985 the world experienced a television super concert that has never been replicated. Live Aid was a famine relief effort for Africa, which began with a Bob Geldof song and a “Feed The World” mantra that returns every Christmas. On the 40th Anniversary of a day made famous by so many bands and artists over the years, Nestor gathered his two brotherly pals, Richard and David Abrahams, who traveled to London to see the show at Wembley Stadium while he was in Philadelphia at JFK Stadium, writing a long-forgotten review of the concert that was unearthed. Let them share memories and show and tell pictures and mementos of their experiences four decades later…

Who knew what about Jeffrey Epstein and what will Ghislaine tell

Who knew what about Jeffrey Epstein and what will Ghislaine tell?

Baltimore Positive

There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case, and author Barry Levine seeks to answer them. Levine joins Nestor to talk old Baltimore journalism and his book: The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Due process” is not a right that should be in question in modern America

Baltimore Positive

What’s happening in America every day at the hands, masks and guns of these ICE raids should appall and outrage any citizen in this country who believes in The Constitution and the laws of our land. Former state delegate and current Essex attorney Todd Schuler returns to discuss democracy and some poor government Trumpian trends with Nestor on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Costas Inn in Timonium.

Here’s how the ugly Trump bill will hurt you and every other American citizen

Baltimore Positive

Significant cuts to healthcare, Medicaid, and SNAP benefits and giving tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. And arming ICE to destroy the people who are in America to make a better life like our forefathers. Discussing why The Big Ugly Bill will be awful for all of us with Congressman Johnny O at Costas Inn in Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Johnny O: Arriving amidst the madness and lack of collaboration of a chaos Congress

Baltimore Positive

Finding care and compassion and the center of politics on Capitol Hill seems hard to imagine these days for most American citizens. Congressman Johnny Olszewski joins Nestor at the new Costas Inn in Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for a lengthy discussion about his new responsibilities and job in Washington, D.C. representing the 2nd District in Baltimore.

Finding the new age beat of a Grammy drum after leaving Salisbury for California

Baltimore Positive

It’s not every day that you find a two-time Grammy Award winning percussionist and Maryland native who went to Towson State. So, when Nestor found out about the incredible story of studio drummer and new age devotee M.B. Gordy, he found a different beat and a new world of information about The Academy and life in California making the modern sounds of success in film and more.

The ultimate power play of the Presidency and sports

Baltimore Positive

Journalist Chris Cillizza discusses the convergence of Presidents, politics and sports in American history with Nestor and the stories behind his new book: “Power Players: Sports, Politics and the American Presidency.”

Taking the 80s by the hair once more with Wang Chung

Baltimore Positive

The eighties are coming back this summer! If you remember MTV hits like “Dance Hall Days,” “Let’s Go” and “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” you’ll love this visit with Jack Hues of Wang Chung as he tells Nestor about this summer’s tour with Rick Springfield, John Waite and Paul Young that stops at Wolf Trap Filene Center on July 6th. Still cool on craze…

How Coppin State changes lives in West Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

His enthusiasm is infectious and once you hear the Coppin State neighborhood story of Kevin Carr, you’ll know how and why higher education and the legend of Fanny Jackson Coppin is alive and well in West Baltimore. Take a lifelong journey with the Eagles’ proudest alum and his pitch for how education changed his life and how to bring the next generation along for the ride.

Always ready for Happy Eddie

Baltimore Positive

Local lawyer and reality TV hubby from Real Housewives of Potomac, “Happy” Eddie Osefo updates Nestor on his real cannabis line and journey from attorney to Eddie-ble gummy chew education and wellness on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Do you trust your baseball team and its owner?

Baltimore Positive

He helped lift the Baltimore Orioles during the 1980s and left almost 30 years ago for Tampa trying to build a legacy for the Devils Ray in St. Petersburg. Rick Vaughn now heads the Respect 90 Foundation for longtime MLB manager Joe Maddon and returned “home” to discuss sports franchises building community trust for sustainability.

Having a serious discussion about the colonoscopy you’ve been avoiding

Baltimore Positive

Our June Men’s Health Month Series with GBMC bravely discusses the colonoscopy you don’t want – but you absolutely need, as noted by 56-year old male Nestor Aparicio with Dr. Dhanush Hoskere and Stacey Fifer of Craft Crushes, who provide a cautionary tale about why everyone over the age of 45 needs to get tested to save lives.

All of the reasons why The Y Swim Center has been a success in Randallstown

Baltimore Positive

On the eve of a huge Juneteenth celebration at The Y Swim Center in Randallstown, we bring the Maryland Crab Cake Tour inside with 4th District Councilman Julian Jones and John Hoey of The Y in Central Maryland to discuss how Baltimore County and the local community came together to make life better for residents and families near Liberty Road.

Why not spend some quality time at The Y this summer?

Baltimore Positive

Our Maryland Crab Cake Tour of summer civic and community visits started us at The Y Swim Center in Randallstown for Juneteenth with John Hoey and Barry Williams educating Nestor about the modern world of community activities, fun and great health with The Y in Central Maryland all over the region. And the importance of partnerships with government and the local citizens that keep folks in every neighborhood moving and contributing to a better life in the land of pleasant living.

Bringing some Hootie magic to the solo sounds of guitarist Mark Bryan

Baltimore Positive

He still claims the Orioles and the Washington football team as his “home teams” and guitarist Mark Bryan of Hootie and The Blowfish always plays back in the DMV when he rolls solo. But as he tells Nestor, this time it’s something more special and a cool, bigger band coming to The Atlantis in D.C. on Friday night to play some Hootie songs and a wide array of music and influences that keep him off the golf course and jamming.

The power of par and staying on the course with your money

Baltimore Positive

It was quite a Sunday at Oakmont and the incredible story of J.J. Spaun but our investment insider Leonard Raskin found some parallels on the U.S. Open golf course this weekend with the way money should be handled. The power of par on the course and with your money.

It’s time for Maryland to get that deliciously invasive catfish on the table

Baltimore Positive

If you don’t know about the invasive catfish population eating all of the baby crabs and fish (and anything else) in the Chesapeake Bay, we’re here to educate you on why you’re seeing more of it in the market and on the table at local restaurants. Let Damye and Alicia at Faidley’s Seafood at Lexington Market tell you how we can eat our way to a better bay!

Getting you – and the youth – ready for summer shape at Planet Fitness

Baltimore Positive

Our old pal Quintin Dailey of Planet Fitness in Towson makes an early summer visit to tell Nestor there’s plenty of time and reasons to get serious about health and fitness. The annual youth Summer Pass is open for high school students and free all summer giving everyone a local pass to affordable and smart options to get moving right now and feel better.

Ways to be supportive locally in fighting antisemitism globally

Baltimore Positive

With the recent rise in horrific antisemitism and acts of violence, we seek peace, conversation and knowledge. Howard Libit of the Baltimore Jewish Council joins us to to discuss fighting antisemitism and ways folks can be supportive locally and globally.

Oil spills in Maryland and the safety of your drinking water

Baltimore Positive

We talk about the safety of the water in your home all the time with Doug Workman of Liberty Pure Solutions. With the recent mess at the Inner Harbor, Nestor recruited our safe water expect to discusses oil spills and your drinking water in Baltimore and ways to know it’s pure.

A week of sports from the clay of Coco to the nay of Sacramento

Baltimore Positive

Our resident financial man Leonard Raskin loves sports and during a week of television from Roland Garros to the Orioles playing the A’s in Sacramento and the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals in full focus, Nestor goes international in a Triumph of discussing the magic power of bringing the sports world together in June.

Bringing LinkedIn Local love, business and networking fun together for great causes

Baltimore Positive

Lots of local business networkers and fun humans will be celebrating the 8th Anniversary of Linked In Local, a global effort supported here in the region by Melody Baron, who invites Nestor and all the folks who are on the professional platform to to The Maryland Zoo on Wednesday night for a celebration and fundraiser. Party, animals…

What is the future of Preakness and Pimlico as the big transition begins?

Baltimore Positive

Sure, David Richardson runs the Greenmount Bowl in Hampstead where duckpins are readily available but whenever Nestor returns to Carroll County he summons the Executive Director of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen Association to educate all of us on the changing state of Pimlico, Preakness and horse racing in Maryland.

The embarrassment of MLB and bush league stadium seasons

Baltimore Positive

A six-game winning streak this week and the re-emergence of Adley Rutschman – and better pitching – all have the Orioles pointed in the right direction. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the current state of the Birds and the bizarre first-time appearance in rented Sacramento to play the scuffling former Oakland Athletics in a minor-league stadium.

From Ocean City to Sacramento, the Athletics have finally left Oakland

Baltimore Positive

Longtime Sacramento Bee sports editor Tom Couzens comes home to Baltimore to talk Orioles and newspaper history as his baseball team has finally made it to him after leaving Ocean City and Maryland four decades ago as a one-time colleague of Nestor’s at The News American and Sportsf1rst.

Is this is a showcase summer for an O’Hearn deadline deal?

Baltimore Positive

Business of baseball writer Maury Forbes of Forbes rocks back to the basics of building an enduring MLB franchise as he joins Nestor from the Pacific Northwest to dish on the Mariners, Adley Rutschman’s legend in Portland and the power of AC/DC to put us all on the highway to hell even five decades later.

Trotz: Going home to finish the job in Nashville has been the ultimate challenge

Baltimore Positive

They met in the Baltimore Civic Center press box almost 40 years ago and the fire on ice of the former Baltimore Skipjacks head coach still burns. The future Hockey Hall of Fame inductee has returned to Nashville to become the Predators general manager and joins Nestor to talk about how to win another Stanley Cup on the management side and what keeps him motivated to maintain a grueling hockey life and NHL pace that is teaching him new lessons in the game.

The real legacy of the Irsay name in Indiana

Baltimore Positive

Two old sportswriters with tales to tell of the Jim Irsay they got to know long after Bob Irsay pirated the Baltimore Colts off to Indiana amidst the cloak of darkness. Longtime Indianapolis NFL insider and sportswriter Bob Kravitz tells Nestor about the Colts legacy that Jim Irsay has left behind in the friendly heart of the midwest.

Saving money with better habits

Baltimore Positive

These guys are usually talking sports but this time our financial guru Leonard Raskin discusses better health and better life insurance as the Orioles flounder on life support.

The younger Irsay will be remembered very differently in Indianapolis

Baltimore Positive

It’s been 41 years since former Colts head coach Rick Venturi helped the Irsay family pack the Mayflower vans for Indianapolis as the request of young Jimmy Irsay. The lifer NFL coach schools Nestor on the Jim Irsay he grew to knew and worked for after the Baltimore Colts moved to Indy in the middle of night on March 28, 1984.

The last chapter on the Irsay family name in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

The death of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay hit home in Baltimore last week as Nestor has sought to get the story right since 1984. Hall of Fame football historian Clark Judge joins us to share memories of the son of Bob Irsay and how his legacy in Indiana and his commitment to not be like his father was a promise kept after the Mayflower vans broke our hearts.

The real history of lacrosse in America

Baltimore Positive

Longtime Sports Illustrated author Scott Price takes a deep dive into the rich history of the game of lacrosse in his newest book, “The American Game,” highlighting the game’s cultural significance, growth, and its intersection with American society, connections to Wall Street, the military, and Native American communities.

What was it like to attend Live Aid in 1985?

Baltimore Positive

On July 13, 1985 the world experienced a television super concert that has never been replicated. Live Aid was a famine relief effort for Africa, which began with a Bob Geldof song and a “Feed The World” mantra that returns every Christmas. On the 40th Anniversary of a day made famous by so many bands and artists over the years, Nestor gathered his two brotherly pals, Richard and David Abrahams, who traveled to London to see the show at Wembley Stadium while he was in Philadelphia at JFK Stadium, writing a long-forgotten review of the concert that was unearthed. Let them share memories and show and tell pictures and mementos of their experiences four decades later…

Who knew what about Jeffrey Epstein and what will Ghislaine tell

Who knew what about Jeffrey Epstein and what will Ghislaine tell?

Baltimore Positive

There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case, and author Barry Levine seeks to answer them. Levine joins Nestor to talk old Baltimore journalism and his book: The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Due process” is not a right that should be in question in modern America

Baltimore Positive

What’s happening in America every day at the hands, masks and guns of these ICE raids should appall and outrage any citizen in this country who believes in The Constitution and the laws of our land. Former state delegate and current Essex attorney Todd Schuler returns to discuss democracy and some poor government Trumpian trends with Nestor on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Costas Inn in Timonium.

Here’s how the ugly Trump bill will hurt you and every other American citizen

Baltimore Positive

Significant cuts to healthcare, Medicaid, and SNAP benefits and giving tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. And arming ICE to destroy the people who are in America to make a better life like our forefathers. Discussing why The Big Ugly Bill will be awful for all of us with Congressman Johnny O at Costas Inn in Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Johnny O: Arriving amidst the madness and lack of collaboration of a chaos Congress

Baltimore Positive

Finding care and compassion and the center of politics on Capitol Hill seems hard to imagine these days for most American citizens. Congressman Johnny Olszewski joins Nestor at the new Costas Inn in Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for a lengthy discussion about his new responsibilities and job in Washington, D.C. representing the 2nd District in Baltimore.

Finding the new age beat of a Grammy drum after leaving Salisbury for California

Baltimore Positive

It’s not every day that you find a two-time Grammy Award winning percussionist and Maryland native who went to Towson State. So, when Nestor found out about the incredible story of studio drummer and new age devotee M.B. Gordy, he found a different beat and a new world of information about The Academy and life in California making the modern sounds of success in film and more.

The ultimate power play of the Presidency and sports

Baltimore Positive

Journalist Chris Cillizza discusses the convergence of Presidents, politics and sports in American history with Nestor and the stories behind his new book: “Power Players: Sports, Politics and the American Presidency.”

Taking the 80s by the hair once more with Wang Chung

Baltimore Positive

The eighties are coming back this summer! If you remember MTV hits like “Dance Hall Days,” “Let’s Go” and “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” you’ll love this visit with Jack Hues of Wang Chung as he tells Nestor about this summer’s tour with Rick Springfield, John Waite and Paul Young that stops at Wolf Trap Filene Center on July 6th. Still cool on craze…

How Coppin State changes lives in West Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

His enthusiasm is infectious and once you hear the Coppin State neighborhood story of Kevin Carr, you’ll know how and why higher education and the legend of Fanny Jackson Coppin is alive and well in West Baltimore. Take a lifelong journey with the Eagles’ proudest alum and his pitch for how education changed his life and how to bring the next generation along for the ride.

Always ready for Happy Eddie

Baltimore Positive

Local lawyer and reality TV hubby from Real Housewives of Potomac, “Happy” Eddie Osefo updates Nestor on his real cannabis line and journey from attorney to Eddie-ble gummy chew education and wellness on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Do you trust your baseball team and its owner?

Baltimore Positive

He helped lift the Baltimore Orioles during the 1980s and left almost 30 years ago for Tampa trying to build a legacy for the Devils Ray in St. Petersburg. Rick Vaughn now heads the Respect 90 Foundation for longtime MLB manager Joe Maddon and returned “home” to discuss sports franchises building community trust for sustainability.

Having a serious discussion about the colonoscopy you’ve been avoiding

Baltimore Positive

Our June Men’s Health Month Series with GBMC bravely discusses the colonoscopy you don’t want – but you absolutely need, as noted by 56-year old male Nestor Aparicio with Dr. Dhanush Hoskere and Stacey Fifer of Craft Crushes, who provide a cautionary tale about why everyone over the age of 45 needs to get tested to save lives.

All of the reasons why The Y Swim Center has been a success in Randallstown

Baltimore Positive

On the eve of a huge Juneteenth celebration at The Y Swim Center in Randallstown, we bring the Maryland Crab Cake Tour inside with 4th District Councilman Julian Jones and John Hoey of The Y in Central Maryland to discuss how Baltimore County and the local community came together to make life better for residents and families near Liberty Road.

Why not spend some quality time at The Y this summer?

Baltimore Positive

Our Maryland Crab Cake Tour of summer civic and community visits started us at The Y Swim Center in Randallstown for Juneteenth with John Hoey and Barry Williams educating Nestor about the modern world of community activities, fun and great health with The Y in Central Maryland all over the region. And the importance of partnerships with government and the local citizens that keep folks in every neighborhood moving and contributing to a better life in the land of pleasant living.

Bringing some Hootie magic to the solo sounds of guitarist Mark Bryan

Baltimore Positive

He still claims the Orioles and the Washington football team as his “home teams” and guitarist Mark Bryan of Hootie and The Blowfish always plays back in the DMV when he rolls solo. But as he tells Nestor, this time it’s something more special and a cool, bigger band coming to The Atlantis in D.C. on Friday night to play some Hootie songs and a wide array of music and influences that keep him off the golf course and jamming.

The power of par and staying on the course with your money

Baltimore Positive

It was quite a Sunday at Oakmont and the incredible story of J.J. Spaun but our investment insider Leonard Raskin found some parallels on the U.S. Open golf course this weekend with the way money should be handled. The power of par on the course and with your money.

It’s time for Maryland to get that deliciously invasive catfish on the table

Baltimore Positive

If you don’t know about the invasive catfish population eating all of the baby crabs and fish (and anything else) in the Chesapeake Bay, we’re here to educate you on why you’re seeing more of it in the market and on the table at local restaurants. Let Damye and Alicia at Faidley’s Seafood at Lexington Market tell you how we can eat our way to a better bay!

Getting you – and the youth – ready for summer shape at Planet Fitness

Baltimore Positive

Our old pal Quintin Dailey of Planet Fitness in Towson makes an early summer visit to tell Nestor there’s plenty of time and reasons to get serious about health and fitness. The annual youth Summer Pass is open for high school students and free all summer giving everyone a local pass to affordable and smart options to get moving right now and feel better.

Ways to be supportive locally in fighting antisemitism globally

Baltimore Positive

With the recent rise in horrific antisemitism and acts of violence, we seek peace, conversation and knowledge. Howard Libit of the Baltimore Jewish Council joins us to to discuss fighting antisemitism and ways folks can be supportive locally and globally.

Oil spills in Maryland and the safety of your drinking water

Baltimore Positive

We talk about the safety of the water in your home all the time with Doug Workman of Liberty Pure Solutions. With the recent mess at the Inner Harbor, Nestor recruited our safe water expect to discusses oil spills and your drinking water in Baltimore and ways to know it’s pure.

A week of sports from the clay of Coco to the nay of Sacramento

Baltimore Positive

Our resident financial man Leonard Raskin loves sports and during a week of television from Roland Garros to the Orioles playing the A’s in Sacramento and the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals in full focus, Nestor goes international in a Triumph of discussing the magic power of bringing the sports world together in June.

Bringing LinkedIn Local love, business and networking fun together for great causes

Baltimore Positive

Lots of local business networkers and fun humans will be celebrating the 8th Anniversary of Linked In Local, a global effort supported here in the region by Melody Baron, who invites Nestor and all the folks who are on the professional platform to to The Maryland Zoo on Wednesday night for a celebration and fundraiser. Party, animals…

What is the future of Preakness and Pimlico as the big transition begins?

Baltimore Positive

Sure, David Richardson runs the Greenmount Bowl in Hampstead where duckpins are readily available but whenever Nestor returns to Carroll County he summons the Executive Director of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen Association to educate all of us on the changing state of Pimlico, Preakness and horse racing in Maryland.

The embarrassment of MLB and bush league stadium seasons

Baltimore Positive

A six-game winning streak this week and the re-emergence of Adley Rutschman – and better pitching – all have the Orioles pointed in the right direction. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the current state of the Birds and the bizarre first-time appearance in rented Sacramento to play the scuffling former Oakland Athletics in a minor-league stadium.

From Ocean City to Sacramento, the Athletics have finally left Oakland

Baltimore Positive

Longtime Sacramento Bee sports editor Tom Couzens comes home to Baltimore to talk Orioles and newspaper history as his baseball team has finally made it to him after leaving Ocean City and Maryland four decades ago as a one-time colleague of Nestor’s at The News American and Sportsf1rst.

Is this is a showcase summer for an O’Hearn deadline deal?

Baltimore Positive

Business of baseball writer Maury Forbes of Forbes rocks back to the basics of building an enduring MLB franchise as he joins Nestor from the Pacific Northwest to dish on the Mariners, Adley Rutschman’s legend in Portland and the power of AC/DC to put us all on the highway to hell even five decades later.

Trotz: Going home to finish the job in Nashville has been the ultimate challenge

Baltimore Positive

They met in the Baltimore Civic Center press box almost 40 years ago and the fire on ice of the former Baltimore Skipjacks head coach still burns. The future Hockey Hall of Fame inductee has returned to Nashville to become the Predators general manager and joins Nestor to talk about how to win another Stanley Cup on the management side and what keeps him motivated to maintain a grueling hockey life and NHL pace that is teaching him new lessons in the game.

The real legacy of the Irsay name in Indiana

Baltimore Positive

Two old sportswriters with tales to tell of the Jim Irsay they got to know long after Bob Irsay pirated the Baltimore Colts off to Indiana amidst the cloak of darkness. Longtime Indianapolis NFL insider and sportswriter Bob Kravitz tells Nestor about the Colts legacy that Jim Irsay has left behind in the friendly heart of the midwest.

Saving money with better habits

Baltimore Positive

These guys are usually talking sports but this time our financial guru Leonard Raskin discusses better health and better life insurance as the Orioles flounder on life support.

The younger Irsay will be remembered very differently in Indianapolis

Baltimore Positive

It’s been 41 years since former Colts head coach Rick Venturi helped the Irsay family pack the Mayflower vans for Indianapolis as the request of young Jimmy Irsay. The lifer NFL coach schools Nestor on the Jim Irsay he grew to knew and worked for after the Baltimore Colts moved to Indy in the middle of night on March 28, 1984.

The last chapter on the Irsay family name in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

The death of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay hit home in Baltimore last week as Nestor has sought to get the story right since 1984. Hall of Fame football historian Clark Judge joins us to share memories of the son of Bob Irsay and how his legacy in Indiana and his commitment to not be like his father was a promise kept after the Mayflower vans broke our hearts.

The real history of lacrosse in America

Baltimore Positive

Longtime Sports Illustrated author Scott Price takes a deep dive into the rich history of the game of lacrosse in his newest book, “The American Game,” highlighting the game’s cultural significance, growth, and its intersection with American society, connections to Wall Street, the military, and Native American communities.

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