Eight Forty-Eight—October 31, 2006 |
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Chicago’s Colossal Advertising Win
Business contributor David Greising talks about Wal-Mart’s recent change from advertising agency GSD&M to Chicago-based Draft FCB, and what the acquisition of this colossal creative account means for the area. |
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Carpentersville Divided
Chicago Public Radio’s Chip Miller reports on a controversial anti-immigration ordinance that has been tabled in the northwest suburban village of Carpentersville. But, the ordinance hasn’t brought the village any closer together. |
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Theater Superstitions
“Eight Forty-Eight's” theater contributor Jonathan Abarbanel shares some traditional superstitions of the stage. |
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Spooked Out
Writer Cherie Caswell Dost reflects upon Rebecca Keller’s spooky art exhibition at the Glessner House in Chicago’s South Loop. Rebecca Keller’s HomeWork/HouseWork/Work Around the House ends today. |
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Chicago Ghost Investigators
Brian Maloy—President/CEO, Chicago Ghost Investigators; Investigator
Michaelyn Cece—Investigator and Co-Owner, Chicago Ghost Investigators
Intrepid correspondent Gianofer Fields hunts spirits at a north side night club with Brian Maloy and Michaelyn Cece. |
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Studio 312—Offers Halloween Safety Advice
Studio 312 host Jimmy Carrane shares his very own Halloween safety tips. |
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Halloween Audio Postcard
Chicago resident Maria Rodriguez walks us through the extensive Halloween decorations at her northwest side home and tells us what the holiday means to her. |
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Dave “The Rock” Nelson
Dave “The Rock” Nelson—Monster Movie Builder
Steve Edwards heads to Berwyn for an outlandishly animated conversation with the Ed Wood of the ‘90s and beyond.
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 30, 2006 |
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Crime and Alternatives to Prison
Paula Wolff—Senior Executive, Metropolis Chicago 2020
Connie Howard—Illinois State Representative, 34th District
Violent crime is down as prison populations bloom. What does this mean for Chicago? We discuss the Chicago Metropolis 2020 Crime and Justice Index, and consider how alternatives to prison can make a difference in our communities. |
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Bears Sack the 49ers
Sports contributor Cheryl Raye-Stout provides a post-game wrap up of the showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and Chicago’s still-undefeated Bears. |
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Managing the Machine
Chicago Public Radio’s Robert Wildeboer reports on what election officials are doing to make electronic voting more reliable after the confusion and late vote counts of the March primaries. |
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Writers Block Party
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, host of the literary/variety “show within a show,” brings us stories reflecting on the art of lists. |
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Movin’ On
We share a cut from local jazz singer Lucy Smith’s new album, Movin’ On. Lucy Smith performs this Friday at the Chicago Women in Trades Gala at Plumbers Hall, located at 1340 W. Washington St., in Chicago. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 27, 2006 |
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Month in Review
Lester Munson—Associate Editor, Sports Illustrated
Mary Mitchell—Columnist, Chicago Sun-Times
Carlos Hernandez Gomez—Political Reporter, CLTV
Our panel and Steve Edwards discuss some of the top stories of October in our regular Month in Review. |
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Calling
Religion and ethics contributor Judy Valente reports on the surprising trend of expansion at several Hyde Park divinity schools. |
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Dueling Critics—A Room With a View
Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman duke it out over A Room With a View on stage at Lifeline Theatre through December 3. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 26, 2006 |
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Assessing the Needs of the CTA
Jon Hilkevich—Transportation Reporter, Chicago Tribune
The new CTA budget is up for public discussion, while riders are voicing their frustrations with service. Jon Hilkevitch brings us the latest.
Music Button: Steve Reich, “Different Trains,” from the box set Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective (Nonesuch) |
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Essential Mysteries of Chicago—Unraveling the Dress Code
As part of his series, Chicago Public Radio’s German fellow Tobias Jaecker finds out why he can’t get into a nightclub in Chicago. |
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Evolution of Dance
Dance critic Lucia Mauro discusses three Chicago dance companies that are exploring the deeply rooted traditions of dance.
The Dance Center of Columbia College's Classical Roots: An Evening in Three Acts hits the stage on October 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dance Center of Columbia College.
Thodos Dance Chicago's Fall Home Engagement 2006 October 28 at 8 p.m. and October 29 at 3 p.m. at the Athenaeum Theatre.
Girodano Jazz Dance Chicago's Fall Performances take the stage at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on Friday, October 27 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m. |
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Listener Feedback
We share your e-mails and calls. If you have a comment or question about something that you heard, e-mail us. |
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Three to See
Chicago Public Radio Arts Editor Edward Lifson shares three not-to-be-missed upcoming cultural events.
The 8th Puerto Rican Cuatro Festival—“El Cuatro con La Bomba y Plena”
Friday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium Theatre
Chicago
2006 World Festival Honoring Japanese Culture
Saturday and Sunday, October 28-29from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Lincoln Park Conservatory
Chicago
The 17th Annual Chicago Humanities Festival—“Peace and War: Facing Human Conflict”
Saturday, October 28—Sunday, November 12
Various Locations in Chicago |
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A Birthday Calendar Just for Chicago
Local historian Tim Samuelson introduces us to the 2007 Chicago Birthday Calendar.
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 25, 2006
Today's Show Was Interrupted by President Bush's News Conference |
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What's the State of our Fiscal Health and Why Should We Care?
Charlie Wheelan—Instructor and Lecturer, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Contributor
Charlie Wheelan explores the fiscal health of Illinois and what the gubernatorial candidates are planning on doing to help it. |
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Highway Confusion
Rebecca Williams of The Environment Report, formerly known as the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, shares more about the struggle between local officials who want to encourage the development of new highways, and people who worry that such growth will fuel more sprawl. |
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The Arts of Indonesia Comes Alive in Chicago
Chicago Public Radio’s Jenny Lawton reports on the Indonesian Performing Arts of Chicago. They celebrate “Indonesian Night” this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at Northeastern Illinois University's University Auditorium. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 24, 2006 |
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Where Are All the Debates?
There's lots of finger pointing over the lack of debates between the major party candidates for governor. Chicago Public Radio's Ben Calhoun looks at who's really to blame. |
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Campaign Notebook: Citizen Panel Discussion
Nizam Arain—Lawyer
Pamela Dominguez—Community Activist
Ben Schuster—Paralegal
James Thomas—Assembly Line Worker, Ford Motor Company
Janet Wittbold—Retired Commercial Artist
We host a roundtable discussion with politically interested citizens from the Chicago area. |
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Making History at CBS Channel 2
Media contributor Wally Podrazik remembers historic moments at the soon-to-be-vacated Channel 2 studios.
Music Button: Life Force Trio, “Coliseum,” from the CD Living Room (Plug Research Records) |
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Reforming Urban Schools
Allen Grossman—Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Allen Grossman explains why the Chicago Public School system provides a positive model for urban school reform. Grossman is a co-author of “How to Manage Urban School Districts,” an article in the November 2006 edition of the Harvard Business Review. |
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From Mexico to Harvard
Carlos Becceril tells us how he went from being a 12-year-old Mexican kid with a serious medical problem to valedictorian of his Lane Tech High School class, and a freshman at Harvard. |
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The Rezko List
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Chris Fusco discusses a note faxed to Governor Rod Blagojevich in 2003 recommending 19 people to state panels.
Music Button: Chris Walz, “Worried Man Blues,” from the CD The Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook Volume 1 (Bloodshot Records) |
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The Songbook Comes Alive
Chicago Public Radio’s Tony Sarabia reports on the new companion to the Old Town School of Folk Music’s songbook. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 23, 2006 |
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Making a Run for the 5th Congressional District
Steve Edwards interviews Kevin White, the GOP candidate running against incumbent Rahm Emmanuel in Illinois' Fifth Congressional District.
Music Button: Mediski Scofield Martin & Wood, “Little Walter Rides Again,” from the CD Out Louder (Indirecto Records) |
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Monday Morning Business Update
Business correspondent David Greising analyzes the mega merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.
Music Button: DJ Click w/Mahala Rai Banda, “Romano Dance,” from the CD Electric Gypsyland 2 (Crammed Records) |
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Getting Our Games On
As Mayor Richard Daley continues his campaign for the 2016 Olympics, local writer and comic Joel Brussell dreams of the events that would take place in the Windy City. |
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“Eight Forty-Eight” contributor Simon Smith reports on an event that turns bike messengers into road warriors. |
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True Tales…Ripped from the Pages of Real Life
“Mortified Chicago” is part comedy, part therapy. Participants share their most embarrassing diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics and locker notes from their earlier years. In this excerpt, we feature Chicago resident Bill Rohde and some of his collegiate escapades.
“Mortified Chicago” hits the stage at The Green Mill jazz lounge on Wednesday, December 6, at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. |
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Lee Balterman's Chicago
Lee Balterman—Photographer
Paul Berlanga—Director, Stephen Daiter Gallery
We profile 86 year-old freelance photographer Lee Balterman, who spent decades chronicling Chicago and the American scene for Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines.
Lee Balterman's Chicago is on view through October 28 at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago. |
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Rockin' the West Side
Steve Cushing—Historian; Musician; Host, “Blues Before Sunrise”
Fifty years ago, a tiny record label was launched in a garage on the West Side of Chicago, and a blues legend was born. Steve Cushing, the host of Blues Before Sunrise, talks about the most famous of these labels, Cobra Records. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 20, 2006 |
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Rezko Update
Chicago Public Radio’s Ben Calhoun joins us for an update on the indictment of Tony Rezko. |
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Mohammed Salah Testimony
Chicago Public Radio's Robert Wildeboer updates us on the trial of Bridgeview resident and alleged terrorist, Mohammed Salah.
Music Button: Groovilicious, “Cherry,” from the CD Groovilicious (New Breed Records) |
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Agents of Change
Chicago-area immigration officers arrested 16 people in a four-day sweep ending yesterday. Chicago Public Radio's Catrin Einhorn profiles agents from the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. |
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Local Latinas take the Mic
In this excerpt, poets Irasema Gonzalez, Silvia Rivera and Yolanda Cardenas address everything from immigration to gangs and violence. Proyecto Latina showcases the talents of local Latinas at Radio Arte in Pilsen every third Monday of the month. |
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Political Groundbreaking in the 10th District
10th District Democratic candidate Dan Seals is running hard against Republican incumbent Mark Kirk and he’s getting help from a recently built political group. Chicago Public Radio's Shawn Allee reports. |
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Wired to Run
Scoop Skupien—Writer and Chicago Runner
With the Chicago Marathon this weekend, runaholic Scoop Skupien shares ways to break your addiction to running. Skupien is the author of Wired to Run: The Runaholics Anonymous Guide to Living with Running Addiction (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2006).
Music Button: The Mercury Program, “The Sea Is Here,” from the CD From the Vapor of Gasoline (TigerStyle Records) |
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The Resurgence of Lawndale
David Brown—Curator, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Steve Edwards travels with David Brown to examine the past, present and future of Chicago’s North Lawndale community. Brown is the curator of the new exhibition Learning from North Lawndale at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. |
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Dueling Critics—Denmark
Our Dueling Critics Jonathan Abarbanel
and Kelly Kleiman
take on Charles Smith’s Denmark, Victory Garden Theater’s inaugural production at the Biograph Theater. It runs through November 12.
Music Button: Csokolom, “Flambee Montalbanaise,” from the CD Dog Daze (Arhoolie Records) |
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Deux French Films
Film contributor Jonathan Miller talks with Steve Edwards about Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and Jan Svenkmayer's Lunacy, two new films that re-examine figures from the French Revolution, but in wildly different manners. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 19, 2006 |
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Campaign Notebook—The Great Debate
Tammy Duckworth—Democratic Candidate, Illinois’ 6th District
Peter Roskam—Republican Candidate, Illinois’ 6th District
Steve Edwards moderates a debate between Tammy Duckworth and Peter Roskam. Both are running for Illinois’ 6th U.S. congressional district. |
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Art 44/46
Stuart Keeler—Curator, Art 44/46
Chicago’s Lakeview East neighborhood has been turned into an outdoor art gallery of sorts with the exhibition Art 44/46. Tony Sarabia talks with exhibition curator Stuart Keeler.
Music Button: Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens, “Course,” from the CD Ready Everyday (Delmark) |
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The Future of the Mickey Segal Estate
Dennis Rodkin—Chicago magazine
A Federal Court judge today will decide whether or not the sale of the Mickey Segal estate will go through as planned. Dennis Rodkin tells us why the future of Segal's house and land is so disputed.
Music Button: Scuba, “Beauty and Warmth,” from the CD Om Mid Tempo Track Sampler (Om Records) |
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Punk Planet Queen Tackles the Funny Pages
Anne Elizabeth Moore—Writer and Editor, Punk Planet; “Eight Forty-Eight” Contributor
Anne Elizabeth Moore joins us to discuss her role in co-editing The Best American Comics 2006 (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) with guest editor Harvey Pekar.
Moore and Pekar will host a book release party tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Hideout in Chicago.
Music Button: Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, “Triple Threat,” from the CD The Fluid Soundbox (Mai Tai Records) |
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Three to See
Chicago Public Radio Arts Editor Edward Lifson shares three, or four, not-to-be-missed upcoming cultural events.
Maria Tallchief Performs as part of Dance and Democracy
Wednesday, October 25 at 4 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago
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Opening Reception of Leopold Segedin's Hide and Seek Exhibition with Performance by Michael Smith
Friday, October 20 from 5-9 p.m.
Exhibition runs through November 30, 2006
Byron Roche Gallery
Chicago
Chicago Calling
Wednesday, October 25 from 12:01 a.m.-11:59 p.m.
Various Venues across Chicago |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 18, 2006 |
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Rivals No More
Joe Weber—Chicago Bureau Chief, BusinessWeek magazine
Joe Weber joins us to discuss what finally brought the Merc and CBOT together, and what the merger means for Chicago.
Music Button: Exploding Star Orchestra, “Cosmic Tomes for Sleepwalking Lovers Part 2,” form the CD We Are All From Somewhere Else (Thrill Jockey) |
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The Hype and Hustle of the Motivational Speaking Biz
From Tony Robbins to Ronan Tynan, Chicago author Jonathan Black gives us a behind the scenes look at the billion dollar business of motivational speakers, and why we're so drawn to them.
Black’s new book is called Yes You Can! Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz (Bloomsbury USA, 2006).
Music Button: The Baldwin Brothers, “Right On,” from the CD Return of the Golden Rhodes (TVT Records) |
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Campaign Notebook—Indiana Race to Watch
One of the most tightly contested and closely watched congressional races in the country is just across the Chicago border in Indiana. Chicago Public Radio’s Michael Puente reports. |
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Landmark Watch List
David Bahlman—President, Landmarks Preservation Council
Steve Edwards drives around the city with David Bahlman looking at some of the structures on this year’s Chicagoland Watch List.
Music Button: Dewey Jackson, “Tishamingo,” from the CD Live At The Barrel 1952 (Delmark) |
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A Look into the Eyes of a Storm
Contributor
Cherie Caswell Dost reflects on the exhibition Eyes of a Storm. The exhibition consists of a group of photographs taken by middle school students from a Cambodian community in Alabama after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. |
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Califone
Chicago avant-folk group Califone drops by our performance studio to talk with Chicago Public Radio's Joe DeCeault, and to perform songs from their new release, Roots & Crowns.
Califone performs at the Empty Bottle on Saturday, October 21 at 10 p.m. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 17, 2006 |
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The Story of Mohammed Salah
Chicago Tribune's Ron Grossman joins us to discuss his reporting of the Mohammed Salah case. |
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Aiham Alsammarae
Reporter Elizabeth Brackett explains the story of Oak Brook businessman Aiham Alsammarae, who went from serving as Iraq's electricity minister to an inmate fearing for his life. Brackett's report aired on WTTW's “Chicago Tonight” last night.
Music Button: Kahil El Zabar’s Ritual Trio, “Oof,” from the CD Big M: A Tribute to Malachi Favors (Delmark)
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Campaign Notebook—The Race for the Eighth District
Illinois’ 8th district is one of the only House races in the country where Republicans think they could pick up a Democratic seat, but the incumbent is proving to be an elusive target. Chicago Public Radio’s Gabriel Spitzer reports.
Music Button: Beat Pharmacy, “Slow Down,” from the CD Constant Pressure (Deep Space Records)
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Organic to Chicago
Chicago Public Radio’s Linda Paul reports on efforts to preserve an Illinois farm so it can be profitable for the local people living off and around it.
Music Button: Chet Atkins, “Big Foot,” from the CD Almost Alone (Columbia) |
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Essential Mysteries of Chicago—The Men and Women in Orange
Chicago Public Radio's Fellow-in-Residence Tobias Jaecker continues to solve the Essential Mysteries of Chicago. Today, he talks to the men and women in orange.
Music Button: Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens, “Saying Yes,” from the CD Ready Everyday (Delmark)
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Changes Ahead Across the Dial
Television contributor Wally Podrazik talks about the changing economics of television and shares how the Nielsen ratings impact the internet, especially You Tube.
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Prine of His Life
We bring you a preview of a special profiling the life and significance of folk singer John Prine. The special airs on Chicago Public Radio later this month and is hosted by “Extensions” host Sarah Toulouse. |
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Eight Forty-Eight—October 16, 2006 |
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Fiscal Wake Up Call
David Walker—Comptroller General, United States
Robert Bixby—Executive Director, The Concord Coalition
We talk with representatives of The Concord Coalition, a non-partisan grassroots group traveling around the country on its “Fiscal Wake Up Tour”. The tour focuses attention on long-term fiscal challenges arising from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
The tour stops by the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public |
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