Candace Gorman is a civil rights lawyer with an office in Greektown. Last week she sat down with me to talk about her pro bono work with two of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. I was floored by some of what Candace had to say.
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Friend of the site Ian Randall reads a love poem about “the only truly American art form.”
If you like this please you can check out Ian’s interview and another poem here.
If this post looks funny that’s not Ian’s fault. We are still working on the video feature, but it should play nicely.
By Josh Hanagarne,
Long story short, I am dealing with a horrible case of Tourette’s Syndrome that has resurfaced with a bang after years of being more dormant.
It causes me to injure myself in a lot of different ways, none of them on purpose. But so what? Hopelessness and misery are beneath me, and they are [...]
In honor of Labor Day weekend I am giving you eight songs about working. These work songs come from the coal mines, chain gangs, and the bawdy houses. There are so many songs about work, this list could easily have been a hundred songs long, so please add your own in the comments.
Tennesse [...]
This post will cover murderous crack addicts, benign Bouncers, and the ego of a graffiti writer, if you want to skip to the crack heads just play the audio.
Good Morning this is Casey Brazeal for North and Clark. An interview blog that “holds a microphone to Chicagoans who don’t often make the media spotlight” (Gapers [...]
Ian Randall talks about why poems should be read aloud and the music of words.
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Ian Randall’s full interview will be up tomorrow.
Indego Africa provides jobs and fair trade wages for Rwandan women. They are not just a non-profit organization, but also a social enterprise, meaning that they make a lot of the money that supports their organization not from donations, but through the work they do. Joshua Lebowitz heads Indego Africa’s board here in [...]
1968 saw the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In Chicago 1968 was the year of The Democratic Convention. Officer Wayne Wiberg was there and he gives us the rare perspective of a policeman in the middle of a “police riot.”
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Props, sets, make-up, and all around art department person, Vanessa Conway talks about making the things that make the movies.
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“(We made) an entire twenty foot tree out of cardboard and muslin… pretty dangerous, but awesome”
