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Garland Gantt, 47, has been a vendor for 12 years and already has a table set up next to the Green Line station.
“I sell snow cones, chips, pop, bottled belts, purses, watches, you name it and I probably sell it,” Gantt, a Bronzeville resident, said Tuesday as he waited on customers. “I definitely expect to do more business starting Sunday. Unlike other vendors selling limited items like water, socks and towels, I sell a variety of things and I even accept credit cards.”
Indeed, as customers walked to the corner of 55th Street and Calumet Avenue Tuesday, some paid with their debit cards.
“As long as you are spending $5 you can use your card with me,” added Gantt. “And yes, I do have a peddler’s license to sell.”
“Listen people, I’m new to farmers markets, and brunch, get off me.” -Ernest Wilkins
How intense are you about your coffee? Intense enough to know what bean, water temperature, brewing method you would like? Ernest Wilkins of the RedEye talks with Molly Adams about Chicago’s Intelligentsia coffee company expanding into New York in a super fancy way. They talk discuss big questions like what they’ll spend big money on in the grocery store, comparisons between coffee enthusiasts and wine enthusiasts, and why baristas have to always wear a little vest.
Luis Gutierrez, not the congressman, the founder of Latinos Progresando takes the place of Dr. Coya Paz for the day, and joins hosts Molly Adams and Brian Babylon for a discussion of immigration. Luis’s organization provides guidance for people trying to navigate the complex immigration process in the United States. Luis, Molly and Brian talk about the hoops you have to jump through to become a US citizen. Listener Stella immigrated to the United States from Bulgaria and gives her perspective on this complicated process.
I think it is a little bit more than a hobby at this point, there’s a movement really throughout the city, many US cities… where people are beginning to reimagine food production as something that’s essential to their daily lives. -Howard Rosing
In areas of the city where fresh produce is hard to come by, how have community gardens filled the void? Howard Rosing is the Executive Director for the Steans Center at DePaul and a cultural anthropologist who has studied this very relationship, he discusses the food ‘desertification’ of Chicago neighboorhoods and efforts toward rebuilding a functioning food system.
Then, intern Gillian McGhee visited Altgeld Sawyer Corner Farm on the corner of (you guessed it!) Altgeld and Sawyer and talked with some volunteer gardeners about their experiences growing and distributing fresh food.
I don’t think that television is my endgame. I think that I am incredibly happy…and I get to make content and create funny things and enjoyable entertainment with my friends, so I don’t know how it could get better than this. Sure, TV throws a lot of money at you, but I’m good. I’m totally content. -Hannah Hart
Hannah Hart runs one of the more popular series on YouTube, My Drunk Kitchen. What started out as a jokey cooking and drinking video for a friend has turned into a thousandaire’s empire. An online donation drive to send her on a tour of the US made almost five times the money she expected so now she’s going international. Hannah joins hosts Molly Adams and Brian Babylon to talk about her origins as a YouTuber, her relationship with her fans and her upcoming visit to Chicago.
Learn more about Hannah and the upcoming tour at http://www.youtube.com/myharto or at http://www.helloharto.com
The music in this clip is by Hannah Hart herself. Check out the full song here.
Morning Chooljian: WBEZ Morning Reporter Lauren Chooljian stops in with the news to look forward to and a little weekend round up.
Anti-TV Guide: Every Monday, Maggie Dziubek reviews the moving pictures that reveal themselves in an episodic way only on the Internet. This week: What’s Trending, a Youtube show whose topic is… YouTube. Also, the show’s broadcast history is a parable of new and old media’s rocky relationship.
Constitution USA: Our friend upstairs, Peter Sagal, host of Wait,Wait, Don’t Tell Me has a TV show premiering Tuesday night. It’s called Constitution USA and in it, he drives around on a Harley Davidson, seeing how Americans are living life around the law.
City Movies: Urbanologist Max Grinnell drops in to play clips from films that prominently feature a city in a non-speaking role. What are your favorite movies that capture the essence of a city, from the States out to the world?
Our own darling Vivian Mikhail, long time intern wrangler and associate producer.
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When we hold up activists and community organizers and programs that are working and that are making a change, that gives people who are not already working for a change a way in. -Coya Paz
Wonderwoman, Coya Paz discusses the dark side and the sunny side of news from public schools this week with host Molly Adams and guest host Odinaka Od Ezeokoli, filling in for Brian Babylon.
First, the bad news.
A high school student in Florida was expelled under zero-tolerance policies for possession and discharge of a ‘destructive device’. What happened exactly? She set off a small explosion after mixing chemicals as part of a science experiment. The internet is up in arms on behalf of the student, and so are Coya, Molly, and Odinaka.
Then, the good news.
A new principal of a public school in the low-income Boston neigborhood of Roxbury is firing security guards in favor of art teachers. The results have been positive change in tangible ways at the school. Coya, Molly and Odinaka are pumped.
“I would say it’s always exciting when you see some brown people doin’ plays. And what’s really cool is that the Goodman is so great about striving to develop new work.” -actress Fawzia Mirza
Currently showing at the Goodman Theatre, “The Happiest Song Plays Last” is the last in a cycle by Quiara Alegría Hughes, and tells the tale of two kindred spirits who live on the opposite side of the world form each other. Actors Fawzia Mirza and Armando Riesco join host Molly Adams and guest host Odinaka Od Ezeokoli filling in for Brian Babylon to discuss diversity in the world of theatre, Alegría Hughes’ past work and the challenges of getting a piece of theatre off the ground.
