All Pieces for WBEZ

 
Libraries: Beyond the books
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: Teach a man to read, he still can't catch dinner. , Credit: (WBEZ/Tanveer Ali)
Even in this digital information age, local libraries still manage to be busy slinging books. But what else can you check-out there? Turns out a wh...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 2
What's that Smell?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: What's that smell?, Credit: Jennifer Brandel/WBEZ
While playing with her kids at the Archer Park playground in Chicago, Juliet Martinez caught the distinct fragrance of silly putty.

Bought by KVSC and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 21:32
  • Purchases: 2
Are there tunnels under the loop?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: A snippet of Chicago’s Deep Tunnel, Credit: Erik Nelson Rodriguez/The Illustrated Press
A Curious Citizen had a hunch there might be tunnels lurking beneath Chicago’s downtown. She had no idea how right she was.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
Will Pullman Ever Be Revitalized?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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A post-industrial neighborhood considers whether to market its history ... or start a Pullman 2.0

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering the Chicagoans who lived and died at Dunning Asylum
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: Dunning Memorial Gate, Credit: Shawn Allee
The forgotten history of an asylum and poor house on Chicago's northwest side.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Bright and Dark Sides of Chicago's Riverview Park
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: Aladdin's Castle, Credit: Chuck Wlodarcyk
Investigating a historic Chicago amusement park.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
How much money do panhandlers and street performers make?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Working for change on Chicago’s sidewalks

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 1
Did a WWII nuclear experiment make the U of C radioactive?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Um, No. But did the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi consider the risk to Chicago?

Bought by XRAY.fm, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 3
The Chicago Accent and the Chicago 'blaccent'
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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How similar are African-American accents? For one commenter, not as close as we’d suggested

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
Where is the highest point in Chicago?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
What Chicago Aldermen Actually Do
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Pregnancy tests? Pigeon poo? What Chicago aldermen really do One frustrated Chicagoan wondered what her alderman’s responsible for

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
What's Manufactured in Chicago?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
Louder Than A Bomb 2013 Radio Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: 2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Ray by Natalie Richardson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Natalie Richardson, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Natalie Richardson, 17, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this ye...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
Slavery ended 140 years ago... by Malcolm London
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Malcolm London, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Malcolm London, 19, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this year. One of Chicago's most remarkable writers, Malcolm masterf...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 3
Found Letters to My Granddaughter by Walter Payton College Prep's Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Walter Payton College Prep Poetry Team, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"Found Letters to My Granddaughter" is a team piece performed by the poetry team of Walter Payton College Prep: junior Kamaria Woods, 17, senior Ma...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
Trial of Eve by Hannah Srajer
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Hannah Srajer, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Hannah Srajer, 18, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. ...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Thick by Mia Harris
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Mia Harris, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mia Harris, 17, is a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this ye...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
Greater than a 36 by Delaney Miller
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Delaney Miller, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Delaney Miller, 17, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:46
Even the Toilets in Catholic Middle School are Blessed by Emma Coleman
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Emma Coleman, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Emma Coleman, 18, wrote this piece about experiences in an Opus Dei Catholic school. Now a senior at Northside College Preparatory High School...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:31

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