Ian Randall talks about why poems should be read aloud and the music of words.
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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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Ken Pavlich, former general manager at a Nevada Gold mine, walks us through the process of getting Gold out of the ground and into the market. Ken oversaw the entire process from scouting out and founding new mine sites to the final refinement. Today he sits down with North and Clark to talk about what [...]
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”
Keith Fort has done a lot of shows in Chicago, and he’s got about a million stories to tell. This one is the best.
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“They were up on the stage in the middle of the show and they were angry.”
Peter Chavez was a Pilsen graffiti kid. He wrote on walls, buildings, and train cars. One of those pieces of “vandalism” won him a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. Now his writing/painting/design is more likely to be in an ad or a t-shirt than a viaduct.
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Keith Fort is the man in charge of the mainstage at the Taste of Chicago, and countless other concerts and events around the world.
In part one of this two part interview with North and Clark Keith talks about his experiences at this years taste and at some of the best shows he’s ever been involved [...]
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A Research Tech on Nanotech; Minipodcast with Zach Feiger
This Mini-Podcast was inspired by frequent commenter Charles. His question (for biology Research Tech Zach Feiger) on Nanotechnology lead to the edited discussion which appears below.
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Zach’s job involves the tiny tiny proteins that move human cells. He stops by North and Clark to tell us about his work, and why its important to make proteins glow in the dark.
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“You shine this infrared light on the whole body and the (cancer cells) light up.”
