1. On Vocalo's Morning AMp today was playwright behind fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life, which opens at Steppenwolf next week. Sarah Gubbins was joined by Joanie Schultz to talked about "the queer themes and female-centric narrative and the largely female crew working on the show."

2. Kinky Boots is definitely set for a pre-Broadway try-out in Chicago, reports the AP, marked for the 2012-13 season. In case it sounds familiar, you may be thinking of the 2005 film of the same name with a bit of a cult following. The stage production involves Cyndi Lauper, who

More and more, social media and technology, and protest organizing go hand-in-hand. The digital world has allowed those involved to become more closely, and regularly connected. Organizing and protests have evolved along with your internet, handheld device and social networking worlds.

The NATO and G8 summits are heading to Chicago this spring, and today we’re looking at how people are using technology and social media to network and organize for the summits. We also look at the sociology behind crowd behavior, and the role technology plays in that.

Today on Afternoon Shift, Steve Edwards will be talking with a variety of lawmakers, ex lawmakers, advocates -- and you -- to answer the question “what would you do to fix Illinois?” To prepare, read the full text of Governor Quinn's budget address below:

I recently got a dog. I grew up with lots of animals, so I had a pretty good feel for how a dog would impact my life, but here are the top three things nobody warned me about.

1) It takes longer to get places by foot. That's because when you're out with a dog, people are constantly stopping you to pet your dog and talk. Parents with kids use your dog for teachable moments, other dog owners want to thier dog to play with yours, and everyone wants to know your dog's name and age.  Seems innocent enough, right? It is--unless you're in a

From state budgets to the G8, every system is constantly in need of fixing. We'll examine efforts from within and without to fix different systems on Wednesday's Afternoon Shift. Here's how director Jason Marck breaks down today's show.

Global Protesters & Technology: Like commerce and entertainment, protesting in the modern age has gone far beyond a piece of poster board, a sharpie, and a walk down to city hall. We’ll look at how technology is used to

That’s right people, the rumors you’ve heard are true: Osama and I are collaborating on a new duet, which will be available on iTunes later today for $3.99. This song is going to be hot like nothing you’ve ever heard, it’s going to get bodies sweating on the dancefloor, it’s going to get people talking, and most importantly, it’s going to make me rich.



Now, I know some of you out there are questioning the wisdom of me getting together with Zombie Osama on a song. My first mature, carefully-considered response to you, is: GO TO HELL I AM A GROWN WOMAN AND MAKE MY OWN DECISIONS AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THAT YOU CAN JUST F RIGHT OFF!!!!11!!  But more importantly, you just don’t understand Osama like I do. Yes, he hurt me a lot back in the day. September 11 was really scary and the flight regulations that followed were a pain in the neck and the color-coded

"This year has been wild!” says Halena Kays. And she ticks off the items contributing to wildness: “Take over a company [the Hypocrites], direct some shows [Burning Bluebeard, Six Characters in Search of an Author].” Plus last fall, while performing in The Kid Thing, she found out she was having her first baby—due in two months. “Rehearsing Six Characters pregnant was crazy,” she says. “And we killed those poor children off! This baby’s gonna be nuts…”

I doubt that. Obviously Kays’s experience—she also founded and, until recently, directed

We turned the tables, or the mics, on Steve Edwards this past Friday at The Interview Show. Here, Steve talks about his love for public radio, his history at WBEZ and, of course, his new show, Afternoon Shift. (Note: If you're at work, listen with headphones; there's a little cursing — by me, not Steve.)