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Passing the mic to Chicago's storytelling competition contenders

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:23:00 -0500

On Saturday, the Viaduct Theatre hosts the Windy City Story Slam, a live storytelling competition hosted by Chicago writer Bill Hillman and Irvine Welsh, the author of many books, including the international hit Trainspotting.

The end of money: Imagining a cashless society with author David Wolman

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:43:00 -0500

Contributing editor for Wired David Wolman lived a cashless existence for an entire year. While he ran into some stumbling blocks along the way, the experience only helped support his theory that cash is an outdated mode of commerce.

Eight Forty-Eight for 05.25.12

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:27:00 -0500

Friday on Eight-Forty-Eight: David Wolman, a contributing editor for Wired, helps us imagine a world without cash. Onstage/Backstage bloggers Kelly Kleiman and Jonathan Abarbanel duel over Raven Theatre's baseball play Bang the Drum Slowly and we hear stories from contenders from tomorrow's Windy City Story Slam.

Theater hits for the fences with baseball

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:39:00 -0500

Sure there are plays out there about roller derby and boxing. But you can fit all the other sports plays in a thimble compared to the vast dramatic literature about baseball, not to mention the treasury of baseball literature beyond theater.

Eight Forty-Eight for 05.24.12

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:34:00 -0500

Thursday on Eight Forty-Eight, WBEZ education reporters Linda Lutton and Becky Vevea give the latest from Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union. For the rest of the hour we celebrate the Festival of Aloha at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which starts this week.

Music Thursdays with Tony Sarabia and Richard Steele: Hawaiian Music

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:13:00 -0500

Lap steel guitars and ukuleles are just the beginning: For Music Thursday we celebrate the Festival of Aloha at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which starts this week.

‘Nothing is Free’: College students and their debt

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:08:00 -0500

New York Times reporter Andrew Martin found plenty of students who feel like no one warned them about their student loans. So who is responsible for making sure students understand what they’re signing?

The molecule that determines morality

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:59:00 -0500

Neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak argues that a single hormone present in our bodies has a profound affect on whether we will, say, jump on train tracks to save a complete stranger.

Eight Forty-Eight for 05.23.12

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:45:00 -0500

Dr. Paul Zak stops by to share notes on "the Moral Molecule," Andrew Martin explains what he learned from talking to cash-strapped grads, and in the spirit of generational malaise, Alison Cuddy talks to two GenX film directors with new movies out.

The evolution of Gen X filmmakers Whit Stillman and Richard Linklater

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:16:00 -0500

Whit Stillman and Richard Linklater helped define Generation X film in the 1990s. So what are these directors up to in their latest films, Damsels in Distress and Bernie?