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WBEZ 91.5 offers over 560,000 listeners each week a wide variety of programs from news and public affairs to music and arts.  Chicago Public Media produces such distinctive and innovative programming as This American Life, Eight Forty-Eight, Sound Opinions, Worldview and Vocalo.org. WBEZ is the only Chicago area member station of NPR®, producers of Morning Edition® and All Things Considered®. We also broadcast programming distributed by Public Radio International and American Public Media as well as from many other national and international program sources.

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11 Pieces

Chicago Public Radio's coverage of the economic meltdown.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Nov 06, 2009
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WBEZ’s Curious City is a new approach to community-powered stories. The public poses questions about Chicago, the region and its people, votes on their favorites and teams up with WBEZ reporters to find answers. The outcomes range from videos to comic books to yes - radio stories! Here you can find a collection of our stories that relate to Chicago but have wider appeal.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: May 22, 2013
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16 Pieces

Got a question about Chicago, the region or the people who live here? Anything you’ve always wondered about, found peculiar or downright confusing? Ask questions, vote, discover answers. It’s your Curious City.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Aug 12, 2013
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173 Pieces

"Filmspotting" is an hour-long program about film, including: movie reviews, interviews, top 5 lists, listener feedback and insightful film talk. Filmspotting is available on PRX by noon (CST) on Fridays. Promos are available on PRX earlier in the week.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: May 30, 2014
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17 Pieces

This a series produced by Vocalo for WBEZ, called Live From Studio. LFS10,

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Oct 28, 2014
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Presented here are finalists from the 2005 Louder Than a Bomb teen poetry slam. The work of these incredible young writers is offered to you so that they might share their stories, break stereotypes, and speak the truth as they challenge both themselves and their audiences.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Sep 21, 2010
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21 Pieces

Presented here are the finalists from the 2007 Louder Than a Bomb teen poetry slam. The work of these incredible young writers is offered to you so that they might share their stories, break stereotypes, and speak the truth as they challenge both themselves and their audiences.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Mar 20, 2007
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24 Pieces

Chicago Public Radio is pleased to distribute the 2008 collection of Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition studio recordings (LTAB2008), just in time for National Poetry Month. For the fourth year, the station invited competition finalists in-studio from this nationally-renowned teen poetry slam, hosted by Young Chicago Authors, and present these 24 pieces (all under 3 minutes) to you ? enjoy!

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 01, 2008
Caption: Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition, Credit: Young Chicago Authors
24 Pieces

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Chicago Public Radio is thrilled to distribute a series of studio recordings featuring the finalists of the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition. For the sixth year, Chicago Public Radio invited competition finalists from this nationally-renowned teen poetry slam, hosted by Young Chicago Authors, to record their performance pieces in our studios. We present to you 24 pieces (all under 3 minutes.) Enjoy!

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Mar 30, 2010
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22 Pieces

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) is thrilled to distribute a series of studio recordings featuring the finalists of the 2011 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 01, 2011

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With Michael Keaton back as everyone’s favorite Juilliard-trained ghoul in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," Adam and Josh consider the versatile actor’s ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Fall Movie Preview / 'Rebel Ridge'
Adam and Josh break out the Folie à Deux format for one more 2024 preview -- a couple dozen of the most intriguing fall films organized into 12 hea...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'The Wizard of Oz' (at 85) / 'The Pawnbroker' (Sidney Lumet marathon)
Adam and Josh lift the veil of nostalgia for a Pantheon Project review of “The Wizard of Oz,” which turns 85 this year. Also, Massacre Theatre, and...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' 1977 film, 'Opening Night'
This week, Adam and Josh hit the Way-Back-Machine with reviews of John John Cassavetes 1977 classic, "Opening Night" starring the late Gena Rowland...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2024
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Caption: 'Apocalypse Now' (at 45) / 'Alien: Romulus'
Following “The Conversation” and the massive success of the “Godfather” films, Francis Ford Coppola closed out the ‘70s with the almost disastrous ...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 5 Bad Movie Dads / 'Long Day’s Journey into Night' (#2 in Sidney Lumet marathon)
M. Night Shyamalan’s "doozy" of a new movie inspires Adam and Josh to share their Top 5 Bad Movie Dads, featuring a rogue’s gallery of cinema’s lou...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Sing Sing' / 'The Fugitive Kind'
The new prison drama “Sing Sing” is another potent showcase for Colman Domingo, and an impressive debut for director Greg Kwedar. Plus, Adam on “De...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Twisters' / 'Made in England' doc on Powell and Pressburger
Does director Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”) put his stamp on”Twisters”? Adam and Josh debate. Plus, Martin Scorsese celebrates The Archers in the new ...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Kinds of Kindness' / Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing' at 35
A cultural flashpoint in the summer of ‘89, Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” has lost none of its power in the last 35 years. Adam and Josh have a ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'MaXXXine' / 'Chinatown' (at 50)
Reviews of Ti West’s horror trilogy-ender “MaXXXine,” and Oz Perkins’s “Longlegs” with Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage. Plus, Roman Polanski’s possib...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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