The artist, writer and Wicker Park native died last year. Friends and relatives have launched an online petition as the first step in renaming a park near The 606’s Bloomingdale Trail after him.
Michael Silverblatt’s particular genius was not in what a novel or story said, but how it went about saying it.
PBS announced a new two-part series, "Martha Graham Dance Company: We Are Our Time," with Connecticut resident Meryl Streep ...
Cat’s in the Cradle” was named one of the 10 saddest songs of all time in a reader’s poll conducted by Rolling Stone. The ...
Meet Terkel, a miserable sixth grader constantly picked on by two merciless bullies, Nigel and Saki. So what can you do? Tease the ugly girl in class – Fat Doris! When the abuse from Terkel is too ...
Når Magtens Korridorer spiller koncerter i den kommende tid, bliver det med en ny bemanding. Bandets bassist, Terkel Møhl, har nemlig brækket armen. Bandets manager fortæller til Ekstra Bladet, at ...
In the late 1930s, the Roosevelt administration embarked on a curious project. Officials hired thousands of unemployed writers to produce guidebooks, children’s books, local histories, collections ...
Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them.Vick Mickunas introduced the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO in 1994.
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Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)

Sometime in the spring of 1988 I got a call. I was then Executive Producer of Appalshop Films, part of a multi-media Appalachian cultural center here in Whitesburg, Kentucky. On the other end of the ...
OL-ceremonierne ofte et øjeblik, hvor man kan føle sig som en del af én samlet verden. Men når USA overtager værtsskabet om to år, er hyggen muligvis forbi, mener Simon Emil Ammitzbøll-Bille ...
Dee Davis remembers the electricity and volume of Jesse Jackson speaking to a crowd of Appalachians in a school gym in Hazard, Kentucky, in 1968.
Outside/In: Where curiosity and the natural world collide. Look around, and you’ll find everything is connected to the natural world. At Outside/In, we explore that idea with boundless curiosity. We ...