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Episode 13: Jess Hutchinson/World Theatre Day
I met Jess Hutchinson at the League of Chicago Theatres offices to talk about how Chicago is celebrating World Theatre Day. Jess, who is the Artistic Director of New Leaf Theatre, is one of the driving forces behind Chicago’s participation in WTD.
World Theatre Day is this coming Saturday, March 27. If you’re here in Chicago, check out the facebook page for the celebration at the Chopin. Wherever you are, you can have a look at the map of worldwide events hosted on TCG.org.
Download with care; I have a head cold so bad that you might catch it from listening to the show…
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Episode 12: Kevin Zolkiewicz
Talking transit, from hot-button CTA politics to charming Kenosha streetcars.
Look, you’re already here at my podcast, right? So you’re probably kind of a dork, right? And your ears perked up when I said “public transit”, didn’t they? I thought so.
Transit is especially a thing here in Chicago at the moment because of the recent CTA cuts, which came into effect in February. I called up my friend Kevin Zolkiewicz, a dedicated transit wonk who runs ChicagoBus.org, and we met up for coffee and wonkery.
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ETA: Kevin just wrote in to correct himself re: the streetcars we talked about near the end of the episode:
I should note one correction regarding PCC streetcars. They actually weren’t a government thing, but rather were designed by a committee of street car operators. I got confused with the “State of the Art” rail car design commissioned by the FTA in the 1970s.
Episode 11: John Campbell and Friends
A Chicago webcomic artist at home with special guests Corinne Webb, the L train, and the flu.
I sat down with John Campbell, writer/artist behind the webcomic Pictures for Sad Children, last week as he was getting over a nasty flu. As promised in the program, here are links to the After Last Season INCIDENT:
An EW article in which John Campbell says “gosh”
We had a really interesting talk; I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks also to Corinne for talking about her work on the show and for being generally vivacious.
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Episode 10: Actor Slash Model
This week, Actor Slash Model talk about their music and filmmaking projects and perform a couple of songs.
I met with Simon Strikeback (right) and Madsen Minax (left) in Madsen’s basement-slash-recording studio to chat about their music, their new documentary, the intersection of trans activism and the arts, all that good stuff.
Actor Slash Model will be performing at Lily’s Bar on Saturday the 27th. The movie is continuing to hit the festival circuit at home and abroad — maybe it’s coming to your town?
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Episode 9: Dan Telfer
On Tuesday evening I caught up with comedian Dan Telfer before he performed at Chicago Underground Comedy.
(Not right before, mind you. Right before he went on was when he had to kick that heckler out. There’s nothing like live performance, kids.)
We had a wide-ranging talk about comedy performance, the interwebs, how to decide if it’s a good moment to ditch all your material and impersonate a fish, and so much more. By the way, here’s the clip, referenced in our conversation about the recent late-night clusterheck, of Jack Paar quitting The Tonight Show over NBC’s corporate dumbassery… fifty years ago.
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ETA: My apologies to my friend Mont Chris Hubbard, who composed and performed the incidental music used in this episode — I’ve always credited him on-air when using his music, but this time I plumb forgot. Here’s a link to Chris’s website and here’s where you can buy recordings of the Permutations of 88 series.
Weather
Recently there was a Severe Weather Advisory OMG Blizzard’s A-Coming, and since these natural-disaster-ish winters are new to me, I asked my local friends on the interweb whether I should be, like, concerned, or if this was just going to be like any other Chicago winter day but with more complaining, or what.
The various responses broke down along basically these lines:
1) Real blizzards are srs bzns. You wanna have canned goods and fresh water on hand. Get some of that plastic wrap shit to put on your windows. Allow an extra hour or so for travel on public transit.
2) It’s probably not actually going to happen, we get storm warnings like this all the time. Use common sense and you should be fine.
3) Well, maybe in Chicago this counts as a lot of snow, but we never got worked up about this kind of weather back in Cleveland…
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Episode 8: Paul Miller
This week I talked to Paul Miller, a Chicago actor and the managing director of Red Tape, about all sorts of things. (He’s also a Reedie!)
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The 2010 CFANN — Chicago Fringe Artists Networking Night — will be on February 6 at Red Tape’s home, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 621 W Belmont.
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True story
When I went to see American Buffalo at Steppenwolf (recommended, btw) I snagged a second-row rush ticket, which was pretty sweet.
In the front row, essentially right in front of me, was a young lady who read her program for a considerable stretch of the first act. This was very, very distracting, because there was Tracy Letts up on the stage, and there in the front row was a program-reader, and my forebrain kept going, Ma’am, would you like to unwrap some fucking beer nuts as well?
Episode 7: Sketchfest Gabfest
A chat in Fizz Bar & Grill with a gaggle of Chicago sketch comedians.
I met with John Bohan, Jim Fath and Nikki Pierce yesterday evening after John & Nikki (aka No Longer Friends) performed at Sketchtest.
Unfortunately I had to trim out a large chunk of our talk due to equipment problems (and I got no decent audio of NLF’s set), but you still get about 40 minutes of insights into the comedy process, swearing, acting, football, and that story about Fortune Magazine. There’s even a virtual cameo by James Asmus, the L.A.-based third of Hey You Millionaires.
Hey You Millionaires performs Thursday 1/7 (that’s tomorrow — or, well, today really) at 8 PM at Sketchfest, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont.
No Longer Friends performs at Sketchfest Sunday 1/10 at 7 PM and at the Skybox 1/28 - 2/25 at 10:30 PM.
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