AUDIO LIBRARY

• Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Wendy Nelson, looks at the raise of methanphetamine production in the Midwest.
• Charlie Wheelan, Midwest correspondent for the Economist Magazine and economics contributor for Eight Forty-Eight talks about his research on the economics of the methanphetamine drug trade.
• Victoria Lautman talks with James Rondeau, co-curator of the Chicago Art Institute's Thomas Hirschhorn exhibit, "Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake"
• Eight Forty Eight Food contributor Steve Dolinsky talks with James Peterson, author of Essentials in Cooking.
• Bob Sakamoto, sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune looks at the state high school basketball championships.

• Topic is the Chicago Public Schools' Local School Council elections. Guests include: Linda Lenz, editor and publisher of Catalyst, an independent news magazine covering Chicago Public Schools, Andy Wade, executive director of the Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative, and James Deanes, officer of School and Community Relations for the Chicago Public Schools.
• School Teacher and writer, Daniel Ferri tries to explain syllables to his sixth graders.
• Eight Forty-Eight special contributor Studs Terkel's 1963 radio story This Train part 2.

• Salim Muwakhil, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, talks with Steve about Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and Savior's Day.
• Chicago writer, Bill Griggs shares some feelings about African American History Month.
• Richard Steele talks with Tim King, president of Hales Franciscan High School. He is leaving this all African- American, all male school, after 5 years. They talk about his tenure and his plans for the future.
• Food contributor Steve Dolinsky serves up the Soul Food of two restaurants: Army & Lou's and Edna's.
• Film contributor Jonathan Miller on the re-release of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Actor Joe Damour gives us a preview of this weekend's Stories on Stage, with an excerpt from Santa Was A Mink by Bill Scifres.

• Steve talks with Paul Green, Arthur Rubloff professor of Policy Studies at Roosevelt University, and Steve Neal, political writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, about Illinois' role in the Presidential Primaries.
• Chris Fusco, staffwriter for the Daily Herald talks with Steve about recent concerns the Illinois Gaming Board has with the building of the Rosemont Casino.
• J. Renee Uliassi, wife of Kevin Uliassi talks about her husbands' second attempt to fly around the world in a hot air balloon.
• Richard Steele talks with author Walter Mosley about his new non-fiction book, Working on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History.

• Victoria talks with David Doig, the Chicago Park District's new superintendent, about politics and the parks.
• Resident Philosopher Al Gini talks with Victoria about the book, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years.
• Steve is joined by WBEZ music director Chris Heim to look at the less talked about Grammy Awards.

Join guest host Victoria Lautman for Eight Forty-Eight.

• Steve Edwards talks one on one with, former Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.
• We visit the classroom of children's songwriter, Ella Jenkins, who is nominated for a Grammy for her cd, Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling Together.
• Architecture contributor Ed Keegan talks with Lyman Shepard, architect and Frank Lloyd Wright Impersonator.
• Victoria Lautman vists the Chicago Historical Society's new exhibit: Treasures from Mount Vernon with CHS president Doug Greenberg.

• Steve talks with Marketplace host, David Brancaccio, about his new book, My Adventures in the American Marketplace.
• Also we continue our tribute to Black History Month with Eight Forty-Eight special contributor Studs Terkel's radio archives, with This Train Part 1.

• Angie Ventura De Leon, Leonor Avila, and Angelina Espinosa, who are carrying on the work of slain community activist Arnold Mireles.
• Peter Guralnick, author of Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, speaks with WBEZ and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me host Peter Sagal.
• Theater contributor Jonathan Abarbanel reviews some productions that will get you out on this snowy weekend.

• Dave Vite, president of the Retail Merchants Association; Joel Whalen, associate professor in the Kellstat College of Business at DePaul University; and Janet Williams, deputy executive director for the American Lung Association, who talk to Steve about marketing anti-smoking campaigns.
• Ken Flaxman of the neighborhood organization, Bucktown Triangle Association, talks with Steve about the organization's concerns over development in this trendy neighborhood.
• Talk show host Bertise Berry speaks with Rita Coburn-Whack about her new book, Redemption Song. Mike Houlihan gives us his opinion on nude theater.

• Suburban communities are trying to cash in on convention business. Can the Chicago metropolis support more convention centers? Steve is joined by Doug Ducate, CEO of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research; Schaumberg mayor Al Larson; and Tinley Park mayor Ed Zabrocki.
• A performance of Knock Me A Kiss at the Victory Gardens Theater.
• Eight Forty-Eight producer Teshima Walker talks with Tavis Smiley, author of Doing What's Right: How to Fight for What You Believe and Make a Difference.
• Springfield, Illinois, resident Juanita S. Barton speaks about living in that community since the 1920s.
• Media contributor Wally Podrazik talks about February sweeps.

• Marilyn Lemak is accused of killing her three children and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Lemak is getting some unexpected support from women in the Naperville area. Naperville resident Martha Young tells Steve how she came to get this.
• Economics contributor Charlie Wheelan talks with Dr. Robert Wisner, professor of Economics at Iowa State University and specialist in grain marketing about genetically modified foods.
• Steve talks with Teddy Greestein, sports writer for the Chicago Tribune, about the beginning of spring training for the Chicago Cubs.
• Richard Steele talks with Chicago pianist and blues singer Yoko Noge.
• Satirist Neal Pollack shares his opinion on Chicago's new gang loitering law.

• On Valentine's Day, we look at the industry of chocolate and the business of making candy with Friderika Kaider, director of the Candy Institute.
• Contributor Victoria Lautman gives us her own, personal view of Valentine's Day.
• We ask people the story behind their favorite love song.
• Studs Terkel's 1961 interview with James Baldwin.

• Linda Lenz, editor and publisher of Catalyst -- the voice for Chicago Public School reform, talks with Steve about Catalyst's 10th Anniversary.
• WBEZ music director Chris Heim speaks about the music of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
• Author Bob Skilnik discusses the History of Beer Brewing in Chicago 1833-1978.
• Food contributor Steve Dolinsky takes a look at the food of love.
• Film contributor Jonathan Miller reviews the movies, The Silence and A Moment of Innocence directed by Mohsen Makmalbaf and The Little Thief directed by Erick Zonca.

• Roy Larson, director of the Garret-Medill Center for Religion and the News Media; Mary Elson, deputy metropolitan editor at the Chicago Tribune; and Jason DeRose, WBEZ religion reporter, talk about the view of religion in the media.
• Steve talks with Joel Cohen, director of the Boston Camerata, about the music of the Shakers.
• Theater contributor Jonathan Abarbanel talks with Kevin Stites, music director for Strike Up the Band.
• Author of On the Rez, Ian Frazier talks with Peter Sagal about his book.
• Cleetus Friedman performs a scene from his one man show, In Full Effect.

• Frank Kreusi, president of the Chicago Transit Authority. Then we go out and ask riders what they think of the CTA. Economics contributor, Charlie Wheelan looks America's extended economic boom, and examines those who have not been able to benefit from it.
• Author Richard Marin talks with contributor Victoria Lautman about his book War of Our Fathers: Relics of a Pacific Battlefield.
• Writer Daniel Ferri goes shopping for a piano.
• Eight Forty-Eight remembers broadcast legend, Bob Collins, with Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn.

• Marge Halpren, executive director of the League of Chicago Theaters, and Eight Forty-Eight theater contributor Jonathan Abarbanel. They discuss the current dearth of shows in the new north loop theater district.
• Writer Rachel Louise Synder on trusting those who may not deserve it.
• Chicago Tribune reporter, Melita Marie Garza talks with Steve about the department of Housing and Urban Developments' recent approval of the Chicago Housing Authorities restructuring plan.
• Steve visits the ice sculpture contest on Michigan Avenue and talks with ice sculptor Richard Birbin.
• Architecture contributor Ed Keegan on the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibit of 100 years in Architecture.
• Writer John McGreevy shares memories of being bullied as a child.
• Performer Denise La Grassa performs a scene from the play, Is There Anything Going On Upstairs.

• Dr. Kathleen M. Kelly, associate professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, discusses Munchausen by Proxy, a parental disorder.
• Astronomer Phyllis Pitluga of the Adler Planetarium discusses the lights in the eastern sky.
• Studs Terkel's 1961 interview with poet Gwendolyn Brooks.

Join host Steve Edwards for the topics of the day on Eight Forty-Eight.

• Steve talks with Tim Samuelson, curator of architecture at the Chicago Historical Society about the history of Chicago's Chinatown.
• Evanston writer Wen Huang celebrates Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dragon with this personal essay.
• Food contributor Steve Dolinsky on the foods of Chinese New Year.
• Contributor Rita Coburn Whack talks with Jervey Tervalon, author of Dead Above Ground : A Novel.
• Theater contributor Jonathan Abarbanel reviews Naked Eye's production of Stop Kiss; Midsummer Night's Dream at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; and Knock me a Kiss at Victory Gardens Theater.

• Steve talks with former Illinois Senator Paul Simon about state and national politics
• Eight Forty-Eight looks at the history of political protests with Alan Gitelson, professor in the department of Political Science at Loyola University
• Media contributor Wally Podrazik on the end of the Wild Wild Internet
• A preview of Chicago Puppetry Festival 2000

• Steve Neal, political columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times with an update on Governor Ryan and the the license for bribe scandal.
  Bob McCoppin, Daily Herald reporter on the continuing problems with child support checks in DuPage County
• Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Lester Graham has a report about the greater Chicagoland effort to preserve and restore natural areas
• A look at Shorefront, a newsletter for the African American Community on the North Shore with Dino Robinson
• Contributor Carlos Flores talks with Cesario Moreno, visual arts director at the Mexican Fine Arts Museum about the current exhibit: Luis Jimenez: Working Class Heroes: Images from the Popular Culture
• Writer Karin McKie on her bully sister

• Steve talks with John Pelissaro, political science professor at Loyola University, about the influence of the Illinois Primary
• Deacon Andrew Brongiel and Fr Yakaitis talk about the 90th Anniversary of St Barbara's Church
• Charles Suchar, professor in the department of Sociology at DePaul University and the Clybourn Corridor
• A scene from the Greasy Joan production of Xena LIVE!! at the About Face Theater.