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2003 Audio On-Demand & Program Descriptions
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  June 30, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Porch Collapse
Steve Rhodes Writer for Chicago Magazine
Laura Washington Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
Audio Saying Yes
Jacob Sullum Syndicated columnist and senior editor at Reason and author of Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use
Audio Continuing the Conversation about Race: Growing Up in the Minority
Amy Dorn Producer at Chicago Public Radio
Audio Continuing the Conversation about Race: WBEZ Staff Conversation
Richard Steele Regular contributor
Chicago Public Radio employees: Annette Wallace, Paul Vinelli, Shiow Young, Steve Bynum, and Carlos Herandez-Gomez
Audio Local Music Corner
  June 27, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Month In Review
Eric Krol Political writer for the Daily Herald
Laura Washington Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
David Schaper Midwest correspondent for National Public Radio
Audio Gay Pride Weekend
Rick Garcia Political director of Equality Illinois
  Connoisseurship
Jean Goldman Collector and scholar of 16th and 17th Century Renaissance art and Baroque drawings
Victoria Lautman Regular contributor
  Country Music
Tony Sarabia Reporter for Chicago Public Radio
  Chicago Bears Naming Rights
John Green Chicago writer, satirist, and creator of www.sparksflyup.com
Audio Cool Spot: Petting Zoo
Exotic House
8232 E. Harbor rd. Marblehead, OH 43440
(419) 798 - 5230
  June 26, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Terra Museum
Judith Kirshner Dean of the department of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former curator at the Terra Museum of American Art
Audio Tavis Smiley
Richard Steele Regular contributor
Tavis Smiley Host of the The Tavis Smiley Show
Q&A at James Simpson Theatre at the Field Museum 7:30PM
Audio Taste Of Chicago
Steve Dolinsky Food Contributor
Audio Ribs
Neal Bailen Chicago writer
Audio Biking in Chicago
Randy Neufeld Executive Director of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
Audio Tim Grover
Cheryl Raye Stout Sports Contributor
Tim Grover Former Bulls Trainer and owner of Hoops Gym
Audio Local Music Corner
Artist: Otis Clay
Song: "If I could Reach Out"
Album: The Best of Otis Clay: The Hi Records Years
  June 25, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio School Report Card
Alexander Russo Contributing editor for Catalyst and Title One Magazine
Stephanie Banchero Staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune
Veronica Anderson Editor of Catalyst
Audio Police Redeployment
Jay Field Reporter for Chicago Public Radio
Audio A Day On The Force
A Day on the Force
Directed by Ronit Bezalel, Laurie Little, Sree Nallamothu
A candid look at Chicago's first women's professional tackle-football team. Tonight at 8PM at the Gene Siskel Film Center at the School of the Art Institute
Audio Ella Baker
Richard Steele Regular contributor
Barbara Ransby Associate professor of African American Studies and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of the book Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
  June 24, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Democratic Presedential Candidates Debate
Extended excerpts from this weekend's debate sponsored by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Audio Affirmative Action Ruling
Charlie Schlenker Reporter for Illinois Public Radio
Audio Metra Fire
Judy Pardonnet Director of Media Relations for Metra
Audio Diesel
Jonathan Ahl Reporter for the Great Lakes Radio Consortium
Audio Like Water for Concrete
Tom Geoghegan labor lawyer and author of In America's Court
Audio Religion Reporters Roundtable
Jason DeRose Religion reporter for Chicago Public Radio
Cathleen Falsani Religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
Michael Paulson Staff reporter for the Boston Globe
Audio Blind Boys Of Alabama
Clarence Fountain Lead singer for the Blind Boys of Alabama. Performing Tuesday Night June 24, 2003 with Buddy Guy at Ravinia at 8PM
Audio Writers Block Party
Amy Krouse Rosenthal Chicago writer and contributor.
She is the Producer and Host of Writers Block Party.
This episode's guests:
Kaz Rosetto -- Musician
Mimi Smartypants - Writer
Audio Local Music Corner
Artist: The Rolls
Album: Trading Punches with Allah
Song: "Tally"
  June 23, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio New DCFS Director
Bryan Samuels Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Audio "DCFS"
Clarence James Rogers Chicago poet, participant in the Neighborhood Writing Alliance, poetry collection: In the Heart of the Ghetto
Audio Benton Harbor Riots
Aaron Freeman Contributor, Chicago writer, comedian, and director of the Aarab/Israeli Comedy Hour at the Improv Olympic
Audio Newsroom Diversity
Rita Coburn Whack Contributor
Sheila Soloman Senior editor for recruiting at the Chicago Tribune
Teresa Mask Diversity editor at the Daily Herald
Audio Childhood Cancer
Quentin Young Medical contributor
Audio Summer Nostalgia
Gail Isaacson Chicago writer, www.gailisaacson.net
Audio Local Music Corner
Artist: Califone
Album: Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
  June 20, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Catholic Bishops Conference
Jason DeRose Religion reporter for Chicago Public Radio
Audio Endangered Landmarks
Victoria Lautman Regular contributor
David Bahlman President of the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois
Audio Refugee Relocation
Julie Sell Midwest correspondent for The Economist
Audio Bantu Refugees in DuPage County
Jesse Hardman Producer
He speaks to the first of many Bantu families to be resettled in the Chicago area.
Audio Film Reviews
Jonathan Miller Film contributor
Audio Cool Spot: Mystery Hill
Jerry Pohlen
Gianofer Fields Producer/correspondent
Mystery Hill
8232 E. Harbor Road
Marblehead, OH 43440
(419) 798 - 5230
Audio Larry Doby Remembrance
Larry Doby Johnson Former Major League Baseball player, Larry Doby's namesake, coaches high school baseball and teaches math at Middleton High School in Tampa, Florida.
Larry Doby was the second African American player in the Major Leagues; he died this week.
  June 19, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Chicago Archdiocese
Francis Cardinal George Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago
Jason DeRose Religion reporter for Chicago Public Radio
Audio Gun Control
Shawn Johnson Reporter for Illinois Public Radio
Audio Summer Theater Season
Jonathan Abarbanel Theater contributor
Audio The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
Davy Rothbart Writer, author, documentarian and creator of Found Magazine and author of The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
Performing tonight at the Hideout
Audio Food and Wine Aspen Classic
Steve Dolinsky Food contributor
Bruce Sherman Chicago Chef at North Pond Cafe, traveled to Aspen, CO for the Food and Wine Aspen Classic
Audio Frog Listening
Diane Aoki Volunteer frog listener for the Chicago Wilderness Habitat Project Coalition
  June 18, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio West Nile Virus
James Sexton Mayor of Evergreen Park
Dr Khian Liem Manager of South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District
Audio Birds
Judy Pollock Audubon Bird Conservation Project Manager
Audio AMA Conference
Dr. Quentin Young Medical contributor
AMA's Annual Meeting in Chicago and the National Headache Society's Annual Conference beginning Thursday, here in Chicago
Audio Al's Summer Book Bag
Al Gini Eight Forty-Eight resident philosopher and professor of philosophy and business ethics at Loyola University
Audio Special Olympics, part one
A look at Chicago's continued role in the inception of and continued role in the Special Olympics
Audio Special Olympics, part two
Dr Barrett Leventhal Professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Chicago
Audio Sox - Cubs Rivalry
Nancy Gier Chicago writer
  June 17, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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  What Might Northerly Island (Meigs Field)
Look Like as a Park?
Cam Davis Executive director of the Lake Michigan Federation
Joyce O'Keefe Associate director of the Open Lands Project
  Burnham Plan
Robert Price Designer with the Professional Services group at Gensler
  Skybridge
Ed Keegan Architecture contributor
SkyBridge is at One North Halsted in Chicago
  Robert E. Lee
Peter Sagal Host of Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me
Roy Blount, Jr. Humorist, panelist on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me and author of Robert E. Lee (Penguin Lives Series)
  Third Coast: "Open Outcry"
Julie Shapiro Managing Director for the Third Coast International Audio Festival
Ben Rubin Multimedia artist in New York
"Open Outcry" originally aired on The Next Big Thing
  June 16, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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  Continuing the Conversation about Race: Minstrel
Victoria Lautman Regular contributor
Barbara Webb, Ph.D Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Dissertation: The Real Character of the Negro on the Stage: African american Theatre as Risk and Possibility 1890 - 1908
  Continuing the Conversation about Race: Youth Dinner
Youth gathering to talk about race through the Chicago Dinners Program, sponsored by Hull House
  Continuing the Conversation about Race: Color Blind
Beth Finke Chicago writer
  Chicago Sports
Cheryl Raye Stout Sports contributor
  Moneyball
Charlie Wheelan Contributor and director of Communication for Metropolis 2020
Michael Lewis Author of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
  June 13, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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  Continuing the Conversation about Race: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel Special contributor
Author of numerous books including Race: How Blacks and Whites Feel about the American Obsession (1992)
Adapted for Lookinglass Theater
  Speaking Of Sex - Final Love Story
Alex Kotlowitz, Chicago writer
  The Natural
John Theodore Author of Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus
  Sparky
John Green Chicago writer, satirist, and creator of www.sparksflyup.com
  Father's Day Essay
Steve Edwards Host of Eight Forty-Eight and father-to-be
  June 12, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Chicago Homicides 1870-1930
Jeffrey Adler Professor of history and criminology at University of Florida
Leigh Bienen Senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law
Richard Linberg Historian and author of several books about Chicago crime
Audio The Executioner's Last Songs
Jon Langford Musician, Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Album: The Executioner's Last Songs
Audio Facial Reconstruction
Prof. Jihad Muhammad President of the African Scientific Research Institute
Gianofer Fields Producer
Audio Diesel Fumes
Patricia Monahan Transportation Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Audio Speaking Of Sex: Antidepressants and Sex Life Choices
Jay Field Reporter for Chicago Public Radio
  June 11, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Medicare Reform
Todd Sloane Assistant managing editor and editorial writer at Modern Healthcare magazine
Audio Chicago Food Depository
Jesse Hardman Producer
Audio Bulls Retrospective
Cheryl Raye Stout Sports contributor
Former Bulls: Scottie Pippen, John Paxson, Phil Jackson (coach), Steve Kerr, Bill Cartwright, Michael Jordan
Audio Speaking Of Sex: Two Moms/Dads: Kids of Same Sex Households
Tony Sarabia Reporter for Chicago Public Radio
Audio Sex on TV
Wally Prodrazik Media contributor
Audio The Furtive Gaze
Victoria Lautman Regular contributor
Karen Irvine - Associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography; exhibit runs through July 12th
Audio Local Music Corner
Artist: Marvin Ziporyn
Album: Candelight and Wine
Performs weekly at Seventh Heaven in Skokie and at Little Bucharest in Chicago
  June 10, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Business Update
David Greising Business contributor and columnist for the Chicago Tribune
Audio Suburban Transportation
Bob McCoppin Transportation reporter for the Daily Herald
Audio U.S. Open Check-In
Bill Daniels Publisher and editor of Golf Chicago magazine
Audio U.S. Open Design: Olympia Fields Design
Ed Keegan Architecture contributor
Dave Ward Golf superintendent for the Olympia Fields Country Club, site of the 2003 US Open
Audio Speaking Of Sex: Out of the Bedroom…and into the Chatroom
  June 9, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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  Telling Truths in Church
Jason DeRose Religion reporter for Chicago Public Radio
Mark Jordan Author of Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh & Christian Speech
  Speaking Of Sex: Talking to Kids About Sex
Johanna Zorn Executive producer of Third Coast International Audio Festival
  Food and Romance
Steve Dolinsky Food contributor
  Theater Awards
Jonathan Abarbanel Theater contributor
  20th Anniversary of the Metro
Victoria Lautman Regular contributor
Joe Shanahan Owner of the Metro
  June 6, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio World War II on the Air
Alex Lubertozzi Author of World War II on the Air
Audio Crain's 25th Anniversary
David Greising Business contributor and columnist for the Chicago Tribune
Rance Crain President of Crain's Communications and Editor in Chief of Crains Chicago Business.
This is Crains Chicago business' 25th Year anniversary.
Audio Film Reviews
Jonathan Miller Film contributor
Monday Morning, dir. Otar Losseliani, plays Facets 6/7+ 6/8; Sweet Sixteen, dir. Ken Loach, plays Music Box open 6/13
Audio

Cool Spot: Prehistoric Forest
Jerry Poehlen Contributor and author of the Oddball Travel Series
Gianofer Fields Producer
Prehistoric Forest
8232 E. Harbor Road
Marblehead, Ohio
(419) 798-5230

Audio What Would You Like to Cork?
Listener Responses
Audio Schadenfreude: Comedy Corner
Schadenfreude debuts July 6th at 8:00pm on Chicago Public Radio
Audio Gospel Fest
Reverend Walter Butts Pastor of Mount Carmel Children of God Baptist Church
  June 5, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Latino Health
Aida Giachello Founder and director of the Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Audio R.E.M. Sleep
Dr. John Paul Spire Professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Chicago and director of Sleep Disorders Center
Audio R.E.M. Essay
Linda Paul Independent radio producer
Audio Humor
Al Gini Eight Forty-Eight resident philosopher and professor of philosophy and business ethics at Loyola University
A Small Treatise on the Grand Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville
Audio Speaking Of Sex: Dating, Romance, and
Mental Retardation

Jason DeRose Reporter for Chicago Public Radio
Audio Illinois State Beach Park
Bob Grasso Site superintendent at the Illinois Beach State Park LakeFront Office
Debra Nelson Natural heritage biologist at the Office of Resource Conservation Region II, Spring Grove IL
Audio Sammy Sosa's Corked Bat: Fans React
Cubs fans outside Wrigley Field during batting practice
Audio Local Music Corner
Artist: Steve Evans
Album: Steve Evans
  June 4, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Sammy Sosa's Corked Bat: Fallout
Cheryl Raye Stout Sports contributor
Audio Death Penalty Reform
Cornelia Grumman Editorial Board Member at the Chicago Tribune; won the Pulitzer Prize for death penalty reform editorials.
Audio Prison Reform
Paula Wolff Senior Executive at Metropolitan 2020
Audio Sammy Sosa's Corked Bat: The Physics of Cork
Prof. Robert Adair Sterling Professor of Physics Emeritus at Yale University and author of The Physics of Baseball
Audio Speaking Of Sex: Love Story #7 — O'Harrows: Stubborn Love
Co-produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Dorn
Audio Kids Menus
Jefferey Alexander General Manager at Vong's Thai Kitchen in River North
Alphonse Kelbel and Jean Joho GM and chef and owner of Brasserie Joe on Hubbard Street
Michel Briand and Clany Noailles Pastry chef and director of Ambria on Lincoln Park West
Audio Interfaith Activism
Eboo Patel Executive Director of the Chicago based Interfaith Youth Core
Audio Taize Prayer
Judy Valente Religion contributor
  June 3, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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Audio Organ Transplant
Gary Becker Professor in the departments of economics, graduate school of business and sociology at the University of Chicago
Ben Mitchell Associate professor of bioethics and contemporary culture at Trinity International University
Ristina Orfali Assistant director of the McClain Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Audio Lonesome Organist
Jeremy Jacobsen Lonesome Organist
New Album: Forms and Follies from Thrill Jockey
Audio Speaking Of Sex: Documentary: Spirit & Body Willing
Audio Dick Cusack Obituary
Joyce Piven Co-founder of the Piven Theater Workshop
  June 2, 2003 hosted by Steve Edwards
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  Springfield Wrap-up: The Budget
Bill Wheelhouse Statehouse bureau chief for Illinois Public Radio
  Springfield Wrap-up: New Medical Laws
Dr. Quentin Young Medical contributor
  Speaking Of Sex: Older Americans: In the Shadow of the AIDS Epidemic
Shirley Jahad, reporter for Chicago Public Radio
  Josefina Lopez
Ray Salazar Contributor
Josefina Lopez Screenwriter of Real Women Have Curves
  Five Millenia
Musicians from Night of Song and Dance Tradition of Five Millenia
Tuesday June 3 at the Chicago Theater
Richard Steele Regular contributor

 

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