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Mild mannered Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass and WGN Radio's Jeff Carlin explore the week in news, politics and other thngs done the Chicago Way in this WGN Plus podcast from WGN Radio in Chicago.
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Food and health podcast by Chicago Tribune food critic Louisa Chu and Axios Chicago reporter Monica Eng.
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125 years ago, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair drew millions to Chicago and left a lasting impact. In “From the Midway,” host Colleen Connolly dives into the legacy left behind by the fair, including the remnants that can still be viewed today, the cultural legacy of the fair, the evolution of the Ferris wheel and products that made their debut at the exposition, and still exist today. “From the Midway” is a production of the Chicago Tribune. It was created by digital news editor Colleen Conno ...
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Over the Barrel is a podcast from Sun-Times Media Local focusing on beer, craft breweries and other interesting alcohol-related news in the Chicago area.
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Veteran radio news guy Charlie Meyerson talks to interesting people. (Some episodes consist of historic raw audio.) Contact: Meyerson@gmail.com
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Join DePaul University sports journalism student Adeyemi Sosina, as he discusses the latest in pop-culture and sports. Occasionally, he brings guest to chill and chat about their life and sports.
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The World Beyond the Headlines from the University of Chicago
The Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago
The World Beyond the Headlines series is a collaborative project of the Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Its aim is to bring scholars and journalists together to consider major international issues and how they are covered in the media.
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The weekly Ross o'Carroll-Kelly column in audio, read by Paul Howard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]
The Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source is intended as a resource for students, teachers, and the general public. It makes available recordings of conferences, lectures, and performances sponsored and organized by: the Center for International Studies; the Human Rights Program; the Center for East Asian Studies; the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies; the Center for Latin American Studies; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; a ...
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CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video]
The Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source is intended as a resource for students, teachers, and the general public. It makes available recordings of conferences, lectures, and performances sponsored and organized by: the Center for International Studies; the Human Rights Program; the Center for East Asian Studies; the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies; the Center for Latin American Studies; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; a ...
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Chicago Way w/John Kass (09/23/24): Joining John Kass & Jeff Carlin this week is a retired American diplomat with over 30-years of experience advising the most powerful leaders in the world on security matters and who also happens to be John’s younger brother, Nicholas S. Kass. On the docket, Iranian-sponsored hacking of the Trump campaign, Israel’…
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‘Your father is a moral eunuch, Ross. Those aren’t my words. That was a main finding of the Mahon tribunal’
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So we’re in Morton’s of Ranelagh, doing the big shop, when we run into Rebecca Leahy, the old dear of Honor’s classmate Diva Leahy. Actually, she and Sorcha both reach for the last punnet of kumquats in the shop and I watch Sorcha’s body shape change to fight mode until Rebecca goes, “Sorcha! How are you? Oh my God, look at you! You must weigh noth…
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Chicago Way w/John Kass: Are Democrats playing ‘Black people for fools?’ Pastor Corey Brooks says, yes
Chicago Way w/John Kass (09/16/24): This week, Corey Brooks, the Founder and Senior Pastor at New Beginnings Church & the Founder/CEO of Project H.O.O.D, joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to talk about why he thinks Democrats continue to ‘play Black people for fools‘ by convincing them to vote against leaders & legislation the would help their communit…
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Episode 131: George R.R. Martin workshop, Honey Ahmed, Curtis Chin
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This week, Monica and Louisa talk Honey and Fun Guys. First, Monica went to the inaugural George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop, where she made Malaysian rice balls with fellow fellow, Honey Ahmad. Monica also talked to author and filmmaker Curtis Chin about his book “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.” Finally,…
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The porty invitations were returned with the words, ‘Honor O’Carroll-Kelly? Are you focking kidding me?’
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I‘ve always worried about Honor – from the time she emerged from her mother’s womb and gave a “fock you” look to the midwife who slapped her orse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Chicago Way w/John Kass (09/09/24): Just ahead of the first head-to-head debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and ex-President Donald Trump, the President of the Independent Women’s Forum, Carrie Lukas, joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to discuss her piece in The Federalist titled “Kamala Harris’ Campaign Is Making Women Look Incompetent.” Plus…
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A lot of things are storting to make sense, including the violin case Leo carries around with him like a Chicago gangster
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Leo’s music teacher, Mrs Gordon, says that Leo has a genuine gift for music and I’m thinking that I need this like Ranelagh needs more launderettes with performance spaces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Chicago Way w/John Kass (09/03/24): This week, veteran political advisor at Serafin & Associates and co-host of The Crisis Cast, Thom Serafin joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin with insight from his Power Poll Podcast on who the MVP of Chicago’s role as host of the 2024 DNC, why Vice President Kamala Harris’ best plan of action might be stay quiet, and …
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‘Our daughter is nothing like Donald Trump, Sorcha – aport from the tan and the vengefulness’
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It’s, like, the first day back at school for Honor and she eats her muesli with the quiet, steely-eyed intensity of me doing my traditional 500 sit-ups on the first morning of the Six Nations Championship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Chicago Way w/John Kass (08/26/24): This week, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Charles Lipson, joins John Kass and Jeff Carlin to assess the DNC in Chicago, look at what RFK Jr. brings to Donald Trump’s campaign, and gauge what Democrats see in Vice President Kamala Harris as a candidate for…
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Sorcha knows my game. She can read me like the instructions on an airplane vomit bag
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It’s true what they say – travel really does broaden the mind. And even though I’ve never seen the point of having loads of knowledge in my head when pretty much everything is available on the internet, you can still end up learning things when you go abroad whether you like it or not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Chicago Way w/John Kass (08/19/24): To kick of the DNC in Chicago, the co-founder of RealClearPolitics, Tom Bevan, is here to preview his team’s daily broadcasts on SiriusXM and discuss how the City of Big Shoulders will handle the influx of Democrats & protestors. Plus, Kasso wonders if anyone remembers the ‘wood shampoo’ of ’68? Check out more fr…
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It’s a miracle Sorcha’s old man has never killed me, though he did buy me a plot in Shanganagh Cemetery for my 40th
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Sorcha says this is the worst thing I’ve ever done to her. It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever done to her. It’s not even in the top 10. But I don’t think it’s going to help my case if I stort running through some of my greatest hits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Palikari Project: Part IV – Legacy | As the curtain comes down on the Palikari Project, our hero returns home to his family’s village for the first time in almost 40 years with his sons, John, Peter, & Nick. We also get insight into what the boys were experiencing as twenty-somethings seeing their father’s legacy come to life in the form of the…
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‘Are you aware that your children are Protestants now?’
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So — yeah, no — Oisínn has landed himself an unbelievably cushy job. As a matter of fact, I have to ask him to repeat himself because I presume I’ve, like, misheard him? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Palikari Project: Part III – Civil War & a Fresh Start | Toward the end of WWII, countries coming out from under the evil rule of The Axis were often were left to pickup the pieces of the decimated lives that once were. In Greece, that was turmoil was compounded by the rise of Communist guerillas and the ensuing civil war that turned families a…
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How do you become a Protestant? ‘You have to drink the blood of a Sussex chicken on Dalkey Island under a gibbous moon’
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Alice says that was a very interesting reading by me the other morning. She says she’s never heard the story of the Prodigal Son told in that way before. I’m there, “You mean all the different voices?” She goes, “The voices, yes – but also the sound effects.” I’m there, “I wanted to, you know, put a bit of welly into it for the audience. I was a bi…
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The Palikari Project: Part II – Occupation & Communists | In occupied Greece during WWII, life for families was tough enough with a ruling foreign force of fascists & Nazis controlling everyday life but the real danger was the communists from within and their campaign of violence & fear. This is the story of Spyros John Kass and the turbulent life …
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Honor has picked a theme for her year as Mount Anville head girl: ‘Vengeance’
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I’ve never been one of those parents. You know the kind I’m talking about. Their kid does a poo for the first time sitting on a toilet and they’re taking out an ad in The Irish Times to announce the news. It’s genuinely rare that I find myself in a position to say – like I did on Friday – that I’m proud of one of my children. Honor has now complete…
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The Palikari Project: Part I – Rizes | Thirty-five years ago in Oak Lawn, John Kass & his brother Nicholas set a card table with coffee, cigarettes, & a tap recorder, hoping to capture their family’s story from a primary source, their father, Spyros John Kass. The tapes were part of an art project John’s wife Betty put together, a ballet. But the t…
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‘Protestants are not that much different from us. I mean, they’re definitely less craic, but they get sh*t done’
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I’m not usually one of those, what I like to call Flat White Wankers, but that’s what I’m drinking this morning, sitting outside the Happy Out Café on the seafront in Dún Laoghaire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Chicago Way w/John Kass (07/16/24): Nicholas Kass, a retired American diplomat with over 30-years of experience focused on Aegean/Eastern Mediterranean issues, joins his brother John Kass & Jeff Carlin to break down what happens after an attempt on Donald Trump’s life was made and how the ‘Deep State’ will respond. Plus, Kasso won’t forget the viol…
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Episode 131: Beards, Goats and Bear
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This week on Chewing, Monica and Louisa report back from the James Beard Awards. Monica talks to Outstanding Chef winner Michael Rafidi, Best Chef: Great Lakes winner Hajime Sato, and Lifetime Achievement Award winner Ruth Reichl. Then, Monica chats with Capriole Goat Cheese founder Judy Schad and Prairie Grass Cafe chef and co-owner Sarah Stegner.…
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Chicago Way w/John Kass (07/11/24): After a violent holiday weekend that saw over 100 people shot and 20 killed, Garry McCarthy -former Chicago Police Superintendent and current Chief of Police for Willow Springs, IL -join John Kass & Jeff Carlin for a discussion about why the city has seen such a spike in violent crime since his tenure at CPD. Plu…
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