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CHIRP Podcasts
First Time First Time: First Scare - Storyteller Ellen Lekostaj
Storyteller Ellen Lekostaj's performance from CHIRP Radio's live-lit/music show First Time: First Scare, 10/9/13. Ellen describes the first time she was really scared - lost and alone with her dog on a mountain overnight in the cold.
Join us for the next First Time edition - First Time: First Lesson - Wednesday, January 15 at Martyrs in North Center. More info: [url=http://chirpradio.org/events/the-first-time-first-lesson]http://chirpradio.org/events/the-first-time-first-lesson[/url]
(Podcast produced by Mickey Capper)
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Artist Interviews Radar Eyes
CHIRP's Katie Owens met up with Anthony Cozzi of Radar Eyes at Logan Square's El Charro to chat about his love of studio life, the direct relationship between a crowd's mood and the band's, and making a living in entertainment media management.
Radar Eyes released their first full length on cassette via Happenin Records in December, are releasing the 'Positive Feedback' 7" on HoZac Records in January and will be releasing a second LP in March 2014 to line up with their trip down to SXSW.
produced by Briavael O'Reilley
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First Time First Scare - Helean Lee
In October, the theme for CHIRP’s live lit and music series, The First Time, was first scare.
Helean Lee is a CHIRP DJ, Chicago sports fan and self-admitted TV freak. And it was while watching TV, curled up in her “blanket burrito,” that Helean got her first scare, weeks after being hit by a motorcycle while she was crossing the street.
Join us for our next First Time—First Lesson, at Martyrs’ on January 15th. Click here for more information.
Podcast produced by Mickey Capper
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Person of Interest Person of Interest: Ronald August deMay
Where: West Town
"It's like the dark side of recycling that people don't see."
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News The Lost Marionettes of Ralph Kipniss
The Underground Multiplex (TUGM) is an arts advocacy and community outreach group founded in 2010 by Lew Ojeda and Richard Lewis. TUGM is a "transmedia" group, which means they advocate on behalf of all media types. They helped break the story of the possible sale of the Portage Theater, which led to a campaign to help save local independent movie theaters and video stores.
More recently, they mounted a Kickstarter campaign to help recover hundreds of marionettes hand-crafted by Ralph Kipniss, a third-generation Russian puppeteer who ran a marionette theater on Chicago's north side. That campaign didn’t reach its goal. CHIRP's Kwame Shorter spoke with Ojeda and Lewis about the campaign and why it was important to help save the lost marionettes of Ralph Kipniss.
Music from The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky
Additional editing by Dan Epstein
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