AUDIO LIBRARY

January 31, 2000

• Steve talks with Illinois Superintendent of Schools, Glenn McGee about schools protesting Illinois Standardized Tests (ISAT).
• Writer Mike Houlihan asks "Who Wants to be Regis?"
• Steve talks with Frederick S. Lane III, author of Obscene Profits: the Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the CyberAge.
• Theater contributor Jonathan Abarbanel talks with Joe Dowling, artistic director of the Guthrie Theater and director of Midsummer Night's Dream, at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, about whether or not Chicago is a Shakespeare town.

• Law School and Journalism Graduate Students overturn Death Penalty cases. Steve talks with Steve Mills, staff writer for the Chicago Tribune, Richard Kling, professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and David Protess, professor of Journalism at Northwestern University, and author of A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen-year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men.
• Lester Graham of Great Lakes Radio Consortium reports on Plutonium waste possibly being transported through the Great Lakes.
• A theater scene from the play Stop Kiss now in production at the Theatre Building.
• Resident philosopher Al Gini takes a trip back to his boyhood neighborhood on Taylor Street in Chicago to talk with Dominic Candeloro, author of Images of America: Italians in Chicago.
• Film contributor Jonathan Miller talks about 2 films: Cuban documentary If Only You Understood; and Errol Morris' quasi-documentary: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter.

• Karl Lutz president of New Trier Hockey Club talks about additional safety concerns for high school hockey teams.
• Carolyn Anthony, of Skokie Public Library and president of the Illinois Library Association explains the procedures involved in choosing books for a public library.
• Economics contributor Charlie Wheelan talks with Andrew Rosenfield founder and chairman of Unext.com.
• Steve talks with Terrence J. O'Brien, president of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, And Bill Shepke, project engineer, about the Deep Tunnel, a defense against flooding in the Chicago Metropolitan area.
• Playwright and actor Mickle Maher performs a scene from Theater Oobleck's production, An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Gaustus on This His Final Evening.

• Paul Vallas, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools talks with us about his reasons for choosing for Chicago Public School students will not be taking the ISAT next week.
• Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell explains why African Americans need to adopt African orphans left behind after their parents die from AIDS.
• Eight Forty-Eight producer Gianofer Fields follows a dinosaur's move from the Field Musuem to O'Hare International Airport.
• Contributor Carlos Flores talks with former Chicago Alderman Ambrosio Mendrano, convicted in Operation Silver Shovel.
• Roderick Peeples and Marc Grapey perform a scene from the Famous Door Theatre Co. play Homecoming.

• Architecture Contributor Ed Keegan talks about planned communities.
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  A review of the Chicago Cubs annual convention.
• Contributor Richard Steele talks with Chicago Jazz musicians, Ramsey Lewis and Willie Pickens about their program to teach music to students in Chicago Public Schools.
• Dr. Lillian Katz, director of ERIC, Educational Resource Initiative Company, talks about "looping."
• Writer Jeffery Snowbarger has a conversation in Paris.

• Host Steve Edwards talks with retiring Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ray Coffey.
• Contributor Richard Steele talks with Stanley Nelson about his PBS documentary The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords.
• Steve talks with Bobby Sengstacke, about the sale of his family's newspaper, The Chicago Defender.
• Food Contributor Steve Dolinsky talks with Ellen Hass about her book, Great Adventures in Food.

• WBEZ reporter Shirley Jahad on current police hearings in the LaTanya Haggerty police shooting case
• Economics contributor Charlie Wheelan discusses a recent study showing a growing gap between the rich and poor.
• Photographer Robert Davis of CITY 2000, a.k.a Chicago in the Year 2000, project.
• Theater contributor Jonathan Abarbanel reviews some plays

• WBEZ reporter David Schaper
  on Chicago Mayor Daley's State of the City address and yesterday's decision to overturn former Chicago treasurer Miriam Santos's prison sentence.
• Media Contributor Wally Podrazik on how T.V. news keeps viewers.
• Special Contributor Studs Terkel talks with author Michael Patrick MacDonald about his new book All Souls: A Story From Southie.

• John McGovern, press secretary for speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, talks with Steve about the over-crowded Republican race for the 10th District of Illinois.
• Ted Gregory, reporter for the Chicago Tribune, about Police Corruption in Bensenville.
• Jeff Borden, Crain's Chicago Business associate editor, talks with Richard Steele about the possible proposal to rehab Soldier Field.
• Al Gini talks about philosophers before the first millennium.
• Victoria Matranga, author of 20th Century Housewares, talks with Victoria Lautman about how housewares have evolved.

• U.S. Congressman, Jesse Jackson Jr. talks to Steve about a new book he co-authored with his father, Jesse Jackson Sr. It's called: It's about the Money.
• Attorney Pat Quinn talks with Steve about a noise reduction ordinance for the neighborhoods around Midway Airport.
• Food contributor Steve Dolinsky bellies up to Chicago's wine bars.
• Writer Mia McCullough on her love-hate relationship with Chicago.
• Writer Amy Kraus Rosenthal on being a Poke-mommy.

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, Eight Forty-Eight pays tribute to the work of the slain civil rights leader.

• Julia Keller, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and Laura Washington, editor and publisher for the Chicago Reporter, talk to Steve about race relations in Chicago.
• Arthur K Spears, associate professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at City College of New York, talks with Steve about his book Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture.
• Jean Elshtain, professor of social and political Ethics at the University of Chicago talks with Steve about a proposal to make Dr. King a martyr.
• Finally Eight Forty-Eight offers our own special tribute to King.

Steve Edwards examines allegations of dubious city of Chicago contracts and municipal corruption.
His guests include:
Kent Redfield, professor of Political Studies the University of Illinois at Springfield. Redfield is also the author of Cash Clout: Role of Money in Legislative Elections in Illinois
Terrence Brunner, executive director for the Better Government Association
Dick Simpson, professor of Political Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former Chicago Alderman.

• Eight Forty-Eight producer, Justin Kaufmann talks with Bob Zmuda, author of Andy Kaufman Revealed, Best Friend Tells All.
• Film contributor, Jonathan Miller, reviews two films: The City and The Tree, The Mayor, and the Media Center.
• Writer Naomi Gladdish Smith shares the last few hours of her mother's life.
• WBEZ's Tony Sarabia takes us to the Lounge Ax, a Chicago Music Venue closing its doors after 12 years.

Former Illinois congressman, John Anderson about his possible run for President in 2000. They also discuss his views on how reform politics have changed in the 20 years since he ran for president as an independent. Then we take a historical look the words of the 20th Century with Dr Allan Metcalf, professor of English at MacMurray College, and co-author of America In So Many Words. And a discussion with Reverend James Meeks, minister of Salem Baptist Church and the new vice president of Rainbow-PUSH coalition. Also contributor Victoria Lautman talks with Chicago author Lillian Moats about her fictional look at three generations of mental illness in her new book Legacy of Shadows.

Lawmakers are back in Springfield and host Steve Edwards talks with Illinois Public Radio's Statehouse bureau chief Bill Wheelhouse. Then Steve Dolinsky picks some winter veggies. Cameron Davis, executive director of the Lake Michigan Federation, talks with Steve about President Clinton's announcement to clean up of the Great Lakes. Then we further the conversation about a newly adopted Bio-Diversity Recovery Plan with Kent Fuller, senior Advisor U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office; Laurel Ross, Chicago Area director for the Nature Conservancy; and Tim Sullivan, chair of the Department of Conservation Biology.

Host Steve Edwards talks with professor Harold Krent, of Chicago-Kent College and Juan Rangel, president United Neighborhood Organizations of Chicago, about Mayor Richard Daley's plan for a revised anti-gang loitering ordinance. Then Eight Forty-Eight Economics contributor Charlie Wheelan looks at the movie business in Chicago with Rich Moskal, director of the Chicago Film Office and David Madden, producer of Save the Last Dance, a film currently being shot in Chicago. And WBEZ reporter Jackie Northam joins us live from Decatur, with an update on the six high school students expelled for two years for fighting at a football game. Plus Architecture contributor Ed Keegan says The Art of the Long View, a new exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, comes up short.

Host Steve Edwards looks at Chicago's economic forecast with Diane Swonk, Bank One senior vice president and chief economist, Dave Roeder, business writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Charles Orlebeke, professor of urban planning and public affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Then special contributor, Studs Terkel talks with jazz critic Ira Gitler, who has just completed editing The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, a project he began with the now-late Leonard Feather.

The Chicago Housing Authority has come out with a plan to overhaul housing in Chicago. Host Steve Edwards talks with Curtis Lawrence, staff writer for the Chicago Sun-Times about the CHA's plan. Then, we visit the last meeting of what has been a monthly anti-violence vigil, at Stateway Gardens. And the best of world music from 1999 with Chris Heim, WBEZ music director and host of WBEZ's world music show Passport.

Today on Eight Forty-Eight, host Steve Edwards updates us on 2 stories in the suburbs. First, Chris Fusco, staffwriter for the Daily Herald, talks to Steve about recent court battles for a casino in Rosemont. Then, Steve talks with Des Plaines 2nd Ward Alderman, Thomas Christiansen about their Mayoral Elections. Media contributor Wally Podrazik joins Steve to talk about the raise in popularity of game shows. Plus music host Mark Ruffin, on the Best in Jazz for 1999.

With a new indictment in the license for bribes scandal in former Secretary of State George Ryan's office, Eight Forty-Eight host, Steve Edwards, takes a trip to STAR Truck Driving School for a truck driving lesson from Ken McRae, Director of Administration and Bob Babbitt, director of Training and Development. Then Resident Philosopher, Al Gini, talks about using the leadership tactics of General George Patton in corporate America. And the Best of the Blues 1999 with Comin' Home host Niles Frantz.

Host Steve Edwards examines the city of Chicago's contracts with minority businesses.
Guests include: Hedy Ratner, executive director of the Women's Business Development Center, Omar Shareef, President and founder of the African American Contractors Association, and Troy Ratliff, deputy director for the Women and Minority Business Development Division of the city of Chicago Purchasing Department.
Food contributor Steve Dolinsky examines tea. And contributor Richard Steele remembers blues legend, Dinah Washington with musician Chuck Barsdale, of the Dells, and then with E. Faye Butler and Darryl Alan Reed, who portray Washington's life in the play Dinah Was at Northlight Theater in Skokie.

Host Steve Edwards welcomes 2000 with a look at how Chicago fared in the Y2K category. Guests include: Barrett Murphy, Director of Chicago's Y2K and Nancy Firfer, Village president of Glenview and former President of the Municipal Conference. Then financial contributor, Charlie Wheelan, talks with Steve about the financial fallout of Y2K. Contributor Victoria Lautman visits a Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit on 100 years of architecture. Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter Mike Mulligan talks to Steve about the Bears 6 and 10 season. And writer Rachel Louise Snyder pays off her brother.