Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater
Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater is one of the most venerated living Chicago blues musicians.
Show Intro and Monroe Anderson, January 31st
Thom, Katy, and Michael are joined by Monroe Anderson to discuss 2016.
Monroe Anderson is a veteran Chicago journalist. A published author, he has worked for magazines, newspapers, television.
Show Intro, December 24th
Michael, Katy, and Thom chat and introduce the Xmas Show.
Ken Tucker, December 17th, 2016
Ken Tucker is a blues musician.
Achy Obejas, December 19th
Achy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins, Days of Awe, and three other books of fiction. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical favorite and a best-seller. She edited and translated, into English, Havana Noir, a collection of crime stories by Cuban writers on and off the island. Her translation, into Spanish, of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Óscar Wao was a finalist for Spain’s Esther Benítez Translation Prize from the national translator’s association. Her most recent translation, Papi by Rita Indiana, is forthcoming in 2016. In 2014, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Chicago, a member of the Editorial Board of In These Times and the editorial advisory board of the Great Books Foundation, and currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., where she lives with her wife, Megan Bayles, and their son Ilan. In summer 2016, Mills will debut its low-residency MFA in translation, a program conceived by Achy, which she will co-direct. For more information, go to http://www.mills.edu/mfa-translation or write translation@mills.edu.
Jerry Harris, December 17th.
Jerry Harria is National Secretary of the Global Studies Association and on the International Executive Board of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism. He is the author of Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy. His research on globalization has been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, and Czech. He is a former professor of History at DeVry University, Chicago.
December 17th, Show Introduction
Michael James and Katy Hogan discuss the week's news and upcoming events.
Dahleen Glanton, Salome Chasnoff, and Nolan Chin
Dahleen Glanton is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Since coming to the Tribune from the Los Angeles Times in 1989, she has held several positions, including associate editor on the metro desk and Atlanta bureau chief. As a reporter, she covered many important issues in Illinois and across the nation, including Hurricane Katrina, military families, the Obama Presidential Center and national gun laws. A Georgia native, she is particularly interested in issues regarding race, civil rights and neighborhood violence.
Salome Chasnoff is a Chicago-based filmmaker, installation artist, and educator dedicated to expanding the understanding and practice of social justice. From 2000 through 2001, Chasnoff was the founding executive director, teaching artist, and resident filmmaker at Beyondmedia Education, where she led workshops with people who are traditionally excluded from media production. Chasnoff has an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Northwestern University and teaches in the Art Education department at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nolan Chin is Live from the Heartland's studio engineer. He hosts General Anesthesia on 105.5 FM--Lumpen Radio--Monday Afternoons 2-4 PM. He also DJs Monday nights at Maria's Package Goods in Bridgeport.
Susan Smith Richardson, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, and Marguerite Horberg
Susan Smith Richardson is the editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter, a non-profit investigative news organization that focuses on race, poverty and income inequality. Richardson previously worked at several publications across the country, including The Texas Observer, the Chicago Tribune, Austin American-Statesman and Sacramento Bee.
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein blogs about books and life, is a writer, a lecturer at Columbia Columbia College and the former database and investigative editor at Hoy, the Chicago Tribune's Spanish-language newspaper. He has returned to Evanston after living in Santiago, Chile, where taught as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Diego Portales.
Marguerite Horberg is an activist and music impressario, founder of the dearly missed Hot House.
Tom Rosenfeld, Rebecca Weinberg, Mike Klonsky, Ryan Herrick
Tom Rosenfeld is runs the Heartland Cafe and Earth First Farms.
Rebecca Weinberg joins us to discuss her work with Baby Wranglers and the efforts to unite Eugene Field and New Field.
Michael Klonsky is an American educator, author, and political activist. He is known for his work with the Students for a Democratic Society and, later, the small schools movement.
Ryan Herrick is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Central Massachusetts. Starting out primarily a guitar player, he soon threw percussive instruments into the mix after frequenting local drum and dance circles.
James Thindwa, Debra Shore, and The Cell Phones
James Thindwa is a long time labor and political activist who is currently the Great Lakes Community Engagement Coordinator for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of Chicago Jobs with Justice, a labor-community coalition.
Debra Shore was first elected to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Board of Commissioners in 2006, and she was re-elected in 2012. Before taking office in December 2006, Debra served as founding editor of Chicago Wilderness magazine.
The Cell Phones are a three-piece Chicago Rock Band.
Sabia Rigby, Marj Halperin, and Manny Torres
Sabia Rigby is a co-cordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She has just returned from a refugee camp in Calais, France.
Marj Halperin is a strategic communications professional with more than two decades of public sector experience targeting messages to audiences. Drawing on broad and varied experience in government and campaign operations as well as award-winning broadcast and print journalism, Marj has served as WGN Democratic Analyst since 2008. Her political commentary has also been featured on WLS radio, WBEZ, and Fox TV. For more information visit Http://www.marjhalperin.com
Manny Torres is a singer-songwriter and an American Idol finalist.
Don Rose, Timuel Black, and David Bragman
Don Rose is a veteran Chicago journalist and an independent political consultant who specializes in progressive candidates. He writes a weekly online column for the Chicago Daily Observer (CDOBS.com) and has published widely, including in The Nation.
Timuel Black was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 7, 1918, but was raised in Chicago -- a place he loves to call home. He is a revered and highly respected educator, political activist, oral historian, and philosopher.
David Bragman teaches banjo, guitar, singing, and sound recording. He has been on the staff of the Old Town School of Folk Music for almost 20 years and started studying at the school in 1971. David performs with Bushfire, the Dime Store String Band, David & Marian, and many other bands. He runs Schu-Man Studios and is a radio host at WLUW 88.7 FM.