Archive for the ‘Behind the Scenes’ Category
Tonight the Chicago Headline Club assembles to give out awards for the best work in local journalism. Shannon Heffernan and I are finalists in the category of Best Multimedia Presentation, for the video we produced on the Plant for WBEZ’s regional reporting initiative, Front & Center: I’m pretty excited. I was a finalist in 2007, [...]
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Shame That Tuned!
3:02 Have you ever seen Shame That Tune, the musical game show that happens every month at The Hideout? Three participants read embarrassing stories about their lives. Then, host Brian Costello interviews them for a few minutes. By that time, pianist Abraham Levitan has composed a song based on their story, in a musical genre [...]
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Tags: Abraham Levitan, Gary, Ghosts of Gary, Nate DiMeo, Re:Sound, Shame That Tune, The Memory Palace, Third Coast International Auudio Festival
Where Have You Been?!
Yes, it has been a while. Mostly this is because I haven’t had much new stuff (i.e., content) to share recently. This summer I started in a new position at ‘BEZ, and since then I’ve been deep in the R&D phases of about 15 different projects and ideas. Which is exciting. Here are one or [...]
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Sugar Cream Pie by Sarah Strierch. Boston Cream Pie may have found its way into our shared dessert lexicon, but what about Hoosier Cream pie? Or Indiana Persimmon Pie? News of these regional treats had never reached me before I heard this lecture by pastry chef Paula Haney. Haney has cultivated a devoted following in [...]
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Tags: Chicago Amplified, dessert, Hoosier Mama Pie Company, Indiana, pie
Amplified Test 2 – Mavis Staples
Staples at Lollapalooza in August. Photo by Kate Gardiner. Soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples has an album in the works with another Chicago home town hero, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. The two performed together at Lollapalooza; Staples later stopped by the station for a surprising duet with WBEZ’s Rob Wildeboer. (Did anyone else know he [...]
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Tags: blues, Chicago Amplified, Chicago Public Media, gospel, Mavis Staples, music, WBEZ
Amplified Test 1 – Azhar Usman
Photo by Alisa Hauser Azhar Usman jokes that he looks like “that guy from LOST. Not the Indian one, the fat one!” The Chicago comedian uses humor to poke fun at racial stereotypes, referencing his own life as the child of Muslim immigrants growing up in mostly Jewish Skokie. Usman recently did an extended set [...]
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Tags: art, Chciago Amplified, Chicago, comedy, family, Islam, religion, Skokie, WBEZ
Thanks, KUT!
Ah Austin. The coolest city in Texas. Now even cooler because they keep licensing my radio pieces for broadcast. Thanks, KUT!! My piece on Malort aired last night on their late night documentary show, O’Dark 30. Now I’ve received word that Austinites can hear Ghosts of Gary sometime soon. Details when I get them. Also, [...]
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~Update 8/2/10: This has now been sold. Thanks. ~ I’m changing my editing suite at home so I’ll be selling my copy of Pro Tools LE 7.0 and its accompanying hardware, the MBox 2. This is a professional quality digital audio editing suite (software and hardware). Great for audio production including music. Comes with Mac [...]
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More News
I haven’t wanted to say much about this yet until it happens, both because I don’t want to jinx anything and because the story is time sensitive, BUT…it looks like I will have a multimedia piece in the web space of a major American daily next week. THIS IS VERY EXCITING. I’m collaborating with Meribah [...]
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