Steve Edwards talks with Frank Wu, cultural critic and author of Black & White; L.S. Kim, visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University; and Darell Hamamoto, author of Monitored Peril, Asian Americans & the Politics of TV Representation. They are behind the New World-New Art Conference on Asian-Americans in the Arts at Columbia College in Chicago. And Eight Forty-Eight’s Rita Coburn-Whack talks with Connie Briscoe, the author of Long Way from Home, a work of historical fiction based on her ancestors’ lives as slaves on the plantation of James Madison. And contributor George Savino goes on a date, and Eight Forty-Eight’s food contributor Steve Dolinsky (duh lin skee) is checking out Chicago’s fish markets.