Help! How To Survive This Economic Mess

When the advertisers  vanish and money goes away what do you? One answer for the Chicago Defender has been to host events.  It’s not traditional journalism, but its money and it serves a community purpose. Cafe magazine has also been holding gatherings and that’s given them a lot of attention. Money too. But what else [...]

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Written by on May 26, 2009

Our new nomads

Where do they go, the new nomads? What happens to the families who’ve lost their homes in foreclosure? What happens to the families who have to flee their apartments when the buildings’ owners go bankrupt? They wander. They search for cheap housing. They double up. They crowd into places where they left years ago. The [...]

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Written by on May 19, 2009

Beats that Sing and Voices that Go Boom!

Join me as we depart from Chicago and explore new and exciting sounds from around the world. We’ll make our way back to cut new tracks from artists and bands in North America planting their roots to a new drum… Tune in Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 on WHPK 88.5 FM from 5pm to 6pm. Streaming [...]

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Written by on May 18, 2009

New International Releases and Our Local Neighborhood SKA Heroes

Lots of great new music coming out in the world today. Good timing as weather begins to warm up here in Chicago… On this show of Chicago is the world, we’ll be hearing some of this tasty music and deliver some local tracks too from our local neighborhood ska band Los Vicious de Papa! Tune [...]

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Written by on May 11, 2009

Gypsy punks from the eastern block, to the new Brazillia, to the hip hop sounds from Seville Spain on this Cinco De Mayo

On this Cinco de Mayo of Chicago is the World, we’re gonna take a trip following the sounds of Gypsy Punks of New York, to experiments in Spain and listen to a couple of artists from the new Brazillia… Of course I’ll try and slip in a few other interesting tracks to keep you movin’! [...]

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Written by on May 4, 2009