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Learn more about “Eight Forty-Eight's” regular contributors below. To find out more about the staff, visit the Staff Page. |
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Jonathan Abarbanel
Theater Contributor
Jonathan is a theater critic in Chicago. He freelances for Windy City Times, PerformInk, North Shore Magazine and Reel Chicago. |
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Jim Carrane
Arts Contributor
Jim is the host of 312 Chicago, a program within “Eight Forty-Eight”. He is a local improvisor, actor and instructor. |
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Kevin Coval
Poet and Contributor
Kevin is a poet and performance artist in Chicago. He is a regular guest on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam and teaches at Young Chicago Authors. |
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Curie Youth Radio
The producers from Curie Youth Radio create stories that offer a glimpse into life on the southwest side of Chicago, and the
impact the neighborhood has on its residents. The students write, edit and produce pieces for “Eight Forty-Eight” as part of the running series Southwest Side Stories. |
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Steve Dolinsky
Food Contributor
Steve is a food and lifestyle reporter for ABC Channel 7 in Chicago. He can also be heard on PRI's The World. Check out his regular food columns at his Web site. |
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Cherie Caswell Dost
Writer
Cherie Caswell Dost is a Chicago writer, poet and budding novelist, with her first manuscript, Rachmones (Compassion), macerating in the juices of time. She also collaborates on photo-poetry essays with her husband, photographer Hagen Dost.
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Beth Finke
Writer
Beth Finke's first commentary for NPR's “Morning Edition” was inspired by her work as a nude model for art students. She began writing commentaries for Chicago Public Radio in 2003 and her “Eight Forty-Eight” piece about the World Champion White Sox garnered both a 2005 Lisagor Award for radio sports reporting and top prize in Journalism Excellence from the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Beth Finke is the author of the memoir Long Time, No See. Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the University of Chicago Alumni Magazine, The Writer and The Bark. She speaks at conferences about disabilities, writing, and dogs, but she no longer models nude. |
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Al Gini
Resident Philosopher
Al is a professor of philosophy and business ethics at Loyola University, Chicago. He is also the co-founder and associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. His books include: My Job My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual, (Routledge, 2000); The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations, (Routledge, 2003); and he has written and produced two plays—Working Ourselves to Death and Letters of a Consumaholic. His most recent book is entitled, Why It's Hard to Be Good (Routledge, 2006). |
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David Greising
Business Contributor
David Greising is chief business correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. Greising joined the Tribune from Business Week, where he was Atlanta bureau chief and previously, Chicago correspondent. Prior to this, he was a business reporter and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of two books: I’d Like the World to Buy a Coke: The Life and Leadership of Robert Goizueta and Brokers, Bagmen and Moles: Fraud and Corruption in the Chicago Futures Market, co-authored by Laurie Morse. |
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Gail Isaacson
Writer
Gail Isaacson is a Chicago writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Read her musings at her Web site. |
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Ed Keegan
Architecture Contributor
Ed is a contributing editor for Architecture and has written for Architectural Record, Metropolis, Interior Design, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and Inland Architect. Mr. Keegan was guest curator for the exhibition Competition: Public Process for Public Architecture at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) during 2005. His first book, The Chicago Board of Trade Building, was published by the CAF in Fall 2005. |
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Lucia Mauro
Dance Contributor
Lucia has been writing about dance and the arts since 1988. A Chicago dance critic and arts writer, her work appears in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Collection and various national arts publications, including Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher and Stage Directions. She is also the author of Careers for the Stagestruck and Other Dramatic Types. Lucia hosts “About Dance,” at the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Auditorium Theatre’s “FireSide Chats” with artists highlighted in the theater's Dance Series. |
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Jonathan Miller
Film Contributor
Since 1994, Jonathan has conducted a series of seminars on Film, Architecture, and Urbanism in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also teaches Seminars in Contemporary Theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has taught at Columbia College. |
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Linda Paul
Reporter-at-Large
Linda Paul started as a volunteer for Chicago Public Radio. She was hired, and has since served as a talk show producer, executive producer of talk programming, executive producer of Chicago Matters’ 1993 series on race and racism, and acting program director. Her stories have appeared on “Marketplace”, NPR’s “Morning Edition”, “All Things Considered”, “Weekend Edition” and “Day to Day.” |
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Wally Podrazik
Media Contributor
Wally is coauthor of the book, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television. He is currently head exhibit writer for the Musuem of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Wally is a Visiting Lecturer for the Communication Department at University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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Cheryl Raye-Stout
Sports Contributor
Cheryl formerly worked as a sports reporter for WMAQ Radio and currently teaches at Columbia College, Chicago. |
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Writer and Contributor
Amy is the host and co-producer of “Writers Block Party,” a literary/performance art program broadcast within “Eight Forty-Eight”. Amy is the author of The Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. |
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Simon Smith
Contributor
Simon Smith is a Chicago writer and reporter. Simon's work has appeared in the Chicago Reader and NewCity. He is currently working on his first novel. |
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Judy Valente
Religion and Ethics Contributor
Judy is a veteran reporter who served as staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. She has worked for NPR and for PBS. She has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. |
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Charlie Wheelan
Contributor
Charlie is a lecturer in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He teaches several courses on understanding the policy process for Master’s students. His first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, was published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2002 in both the U.S. and the U.K. |
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Dr. Quentin Young
Medical Contributor
Quentin is a veteran Chicago Public Radio voice. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he served as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook County, where he helped establish the Department of Occupational Medicine. He has also been an American Medical Association member since 1952. In 1998, he had the special distinction of serving as President of the American Public Health Association, and in 1997 was inducted as a Master of the American College of Physicians. |
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