If you’re lonely it’s not the internet’s fault. Joi is a kids online communities specialist, and digital socialite extrodinare. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here “My bread and butter is community, I make people be friends with each other and talk to each other and have those kinds of relationships” For [...]
Jesse is a transgender guy who recently changed his name and pronoun. I know Jesse because he plays drums with Tom Fort in a Chicago band I love called Cobalt and the Hired Guns. We talk about identity, changing names and the gender as a continuum. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download [...]
Mike Pallen talks about the three Chicago artist and what he does to promote them. – - – - – - – - – - [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here Mike Manages Grimm Taylor, and Peter Terry. He also does development work for former America’s Top Model contestant Sarah VonderHaar. Tomorrow [...]
Sterch’s or Sterch’s 66 doesn’t look like it used to. There is a new feel to the bar and a new crowd. Usually I wouldn’t notice, but Sterch’s is something of an institution. I asked Sterch’s regular Adrian Bleifuss Prados if he wanted to do an interview about the changes at his favorite bar. He [...]
This podcast is a preview for the light-heavy-weight title fight between Rashard Evans and Lyoto Machida and a taste of the great interview coming up with Inside Fighting writer Elias Cepeda. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Every highschool student in Japan has a rank, a number and a home room. Some of them have to clean their school bathroom. Former Japanese-High-School teacher Amanda McClintock explains. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here
Today’s interview is with Chicago musician Tom Fort, guitarist, singer and one of the front men for Cobalt and the Hired Guns. We talk about the Chicago music scene, opening for Dashboard Confessional, and the third heat. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here
My Mama was there when I bought my first album and the person who taught me to love music. I would be surprised if a lot of you weren’t in the same boat. So this mother’s day let’s have a little music for the Mamas and probably the mamacitas too.
In today’s podcast actress Robin Kacyn talks about Diversey Harbor, Theater Seven and playing herself (sort of). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download Here Diversey Harbor runs through May 10 so if you gonna go you best get to getting.
The Economist recently published an article questioning the long term viability of broadcast television. If their chart (below) is to be believed they are probably right. CBS however found the economist’s article too “dramatic.” Their response letter is printed below. —- SIR – Your article “The not-so-big four” (April 11th) is certainly dramatic, but is excessively negative [...]