We were lucky enough to snag music producer Eliot Lipp for Friday's Eight Forty-Eight. Though he's called all three coasts -- Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City -- his home, he lives in New York now, and is here for the weekend to perform at an after party for the North Coast Music Fest at the Bottom Lounge.
Thursday on Eight Forty-Eight, we talk about the Illinois credit rating and enjoy a tribute to Von Freeman with Kahil El'Zabar, Frank Catalano and Richard Steele
Edinburgh has one, New York has one, so why not Chicago? For the third time, the Chicago Fringe collective is presenting a heady mix of solo shows, dance, theater and performances that defy categories.
This weekend jazz lovers will get two opportunities to remember Chicago’s last link to the classic jazz era of the 1940’s and 50’s. Both the Chicago Jazz Festival and the African Festival of the Arts will pay homage to Von Freeman, the late tenor saxophonist who was affectionately known as Vonski.
There’s a conversation that nearly all African-American families have had for decades. Children were told they had to be mindful of all their activities around white people so they wouldn’t be judged to be a negative stereotype. And modern families still struggle with whether these ideas are still valid.
Two of public radio’s great scholars of political ephemera, NPR’s Ken Rudin and WBEZ history blogger John Schmidt, quiz listeners on political conventions in Chicago on Wednesday's Eight Forty-Eight.
