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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Photographer Dawoud Bey joins host Sam Weller us to talk about engaging community in a globalized world. Dawoud addresses this theme as curator for the exhibition Are We There Yet? currently up and the Hyde Park Art Center. Plus Chicagoans weaving their immigration stories in a truly American art form,  the debut album...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
This week, Josh Caterer from the suburban Illinois band Smoking Popes joins host Justin Kaufmann. The band is out with a new album titled Stay Down. It's their first collection of original material since the group parted ways in 1999. We'll talk with Josh about the twists and turns his music career has taken, and, listen to some of the new record...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Chicago playwright and performer Mary Scruggs is headed to the prestigious New York Fringe Festival. She sits down with host Kelly Kleiman to talk about her solo piece Missing Man. Plus Gianofer Fields finds out what a purse says about a person, and Dan Bindert shares a celebration for suburban Westmont's favorite son.
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Hello Beautiful! is pre-empted for Dennis Wilson—Pacific Ocean Blue.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Hello Beautiful! revists three of its favorite in-depth conversations with micromentalist Patrick Welch, sculptor Preston Jackson, and poet Li-Young Lee.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
This week we take a road trip to meet the dynamic British duo Gilbert and George. They're the subject of a summer retrospective at the Milwaukee Art Museum. For nearly forty years, the artistic duo has been capturing images from the streets around their London home. Plus, capoeira and the art of performance, and another installment of Where...
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Lily Koppel tells Sam Weller about her journey of dumpster diving, a treasure from the ‘20s and writing a novel that maps the course. Plus, song and dance inspired by Chicago Daily Newsman Ben Hecht; Lynette Kalsnes on the benefits of arts education; and Hizzoner writer and actor Neil Giuntoli.
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Friday, June 6, 2008
Gail Kalver sits down with Kelly Kleiman to talk about her new project and life as a major player in the Chicago dance community. Plus, we hear about a new play at the Goodman; a new film from indie filmmaker Harmony Korine; and a radio play about an infamous green liqueur.
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
This week, Kevin McIlvaine, who portrays Teddy Pendergrass in the Black Ensemble Theater's current play, I Am Who I Am, sits down with host Richard Steele. Plus, a comic story from the front lines of the classroom; a road trip seeking the art that uses American landscape as its canvas; and the sights and sounds of Maxwell Street in the '60s...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
For the Memorial Day weekend, Notebaert Nature Museum's Jill Riddell sits down with Sam Weller to discuss an exhibition that celebrates America's fascination with lawns and lawn culture. Plus, our love of the natural landscape throughout history; work of the late Chicago Defender cartoonist Chester Commodore; and we conclude our series...
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