Archive for the ‘Behind the Scenes’ Category

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 [...]


6:20 At the start of the Race to Mackinac I was several miles out from the shoreline, photographing competitors from the press boat. Occasionally a missive would come across the radio from the race committee. “Argo this is Breaker, we see 19 boats.” “Copy that Argo, we also see 19 boats.” Once all the starters [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Thanks, KUT!

02Aug10

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, [...]


~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 [...]


More News

22Jul10

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 [...]


Exciting News!

14Jun10

I just got word that the Third Coast International Audio Festival, audio doc powerhouse extraordinaire, wants to license one of my pieces for their show Re:Sound! I am really really happy about this. The Third Coast Festival is pretty directly responsible for me living in Chicago, having professional connections in radio, and loving the medium [...]



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