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Marj Halperin - 1987 Stories #2
Lincoln Park HS stock classes; Poetry Slam at the Green Mill; Ferriss Show; Gangster Museum; Ice sculpture; Rockford Orchestra, one of last smaller municipal orchestras; Chicago violin (making) school (this won a Peter Lisagor award); Non-traditional casting in Lincolnshire Marriott production of The Wiz, director David Bell interviewed; Black American 1920s composer Florence Price rediscovered; 2nd annual world's worst music concert in Evansto...
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Marj Halperin - 1987 archive tape
Hispanic theater, archive version; Seed Show: improv games generate new plays in experiment at Organic Theatre; She Always Said, Pablo production at Goodman Theater, explores relationships between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso, narrated by Alice B. Toklas; Alderman Wallace Davis serves in the city council chambers accompanied by US Marshalls as he awaits trial on graft charges, includes interview with Sun Times reporter Harry Golden, long time...
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Marj Halperin - 1987 stories
Chicago's historic Union League Club votes against admitting women (eventually, the city required them to do so http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-07-30/news/8702250630_1_union-league-club-women-members-club-facilities); Vexations, American Medival Players' production of a doctoral thesis on a translation of the anti-Christ story; Performance of 7-hour repetition of 30 second music composed (as a joke) by Erik Satie, performed by many piani...
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Marj Halperin - 1987 stories
Chicago Cultural Center exhibit of top female photographers "Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land" shows the more intimate viewpoints of women, compared to the male photog tradition exemplified by Ansel Adams. Picasso Sketchbooks exhibit: 200 drawings on display at the Art Institute to tell the story of his creative process and, to some extent, his personal life. The art of hand binding books, practiced by perhaps 1,000 people ...
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Marj Halperin - 1987 stories sept #4
All NPR stories. Side 1: Hometown angle on Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent" including Turow interview on charges of prosecutorial misconduct related to his "day job" as a lawyer, parallel to his book; Chicago's New Regal Theater opens with a black tie reception; Art Institute launches traveling exhibit on the Chicago School of Architecture; Oldest Ripley's Museum closes with an unusual garage sale; Mae Weber museum of primitive art opens on we...
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Marj Halperin - 1988 Archive #2
The Beethoven School helps children learn at their own pace on Chicago's South Side. Kids reading 1-2 years behind grade level get intensive tutoring as alternative to being "held back". Andersonville, Chicago's Swedish community readies to welcome King Gustav and Queen Silvia, coming to help dedicate the Swedish-American museum. Exhibition of the works of contemporary Spanish art "Epoca Nueva" or "New Age" , representing the post-Franco freedom ...
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Marj Halperin - 4 reports
4 WXRT reports: Vrdolyak/Washington feud "You're about to get a mouthful of something you don't want, sir"; Renault Robinson, new Chicago Housing Authority Chairman, is reforming and ordering a new car; Washington transition team details Bryrne's Chicago Health Dept patronage and sloppy finances in a WXRT exclusive report; Mayor Washington drives a bulldozer and dons hard hat for ground-breaking on new transportation building (includes interview...
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Marj Halperin - 88 archive #1 -- side 1
Public TV vs Cable: how cable competition from "new" Bravo, Aetworks & E and others impact PBS. Interviews with small stations in LA, A & E president, others. Steppenwolf Theatre feature, with performance clips and interviews with John Mahoney, legendary Chicago Sun-Times critic Glenna Syse, as company plans to move to a new/larger space on Halstead. Black Vaudville: feature on production about 1920s "Theater Owners' Booking Association Tour" o...
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Marj Halperin - 88 archive #1 -- side 2
NPR stories as submitted: Interview with sculptor Martin Puryear (who rarely grants interviews) and Judith Kushner, art expert/writer (later head of UIC art department); chemicals and other hazards for artists/congressional bill for warning labels; Jesse Jackson Presidential campaign in suburban Cicero, what a supporter calls "a town that has hated his people for decades"; Chicago police investigation into "disappearing checks" that crumble/diss...
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Marj Halperin - Alvin Ailey on Katherine Dunham
Split-track interview (you can't hear my questions as this was conducted via satellite and only Ailey is recorded.)
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Marj Halperin - Archive '87
Aunt Dan and Lemon, Steppenwolf production of Wallace Shawn play starring Martha Lavey, with a one-man show across the street dramatizing 45 minutes worth of the author's notes as an appendix to the challenging and sometimes-shocking play. Includes Walla
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Marj Halperin - Bilandic/Byrne campaign
Bilandic campaign lunch (st arts with video); Byrne election night HQ, including interview with Don Rose, Byrne strategist.
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Marj Halperin - Bilandic/Byrne, etc.
3-28-79: Mayor Bilandic's last City Council meeting; 4-16-79: Byrne inaugural; 3-18-80: 1980 Burke-Daley State's attorney race (Burke news conference on his defeat); 2-9-82: Byrne on lack of 1982 snow; 2-28-80: Ted Kennedy campaigns (continued on S. 2).
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Marj Halperin - Byrne cocktail party/NYSE
This actually includes: interview with head of NY stock exchange, on the expansion they're undergoing, in preparation for the bounce-back they expect Reagan policies to bring to the market. Media interview/stand up as well as formal speech before an unnamed Chicago business group. John J. Phelan, Jr, perhaps?
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Marj Halperin - Byrne election HQ
Various interviews at Byrne's election night HQ for her primary challenge against Washington, attempting a comeback. 42nd ward worker Spiro Petros: "that woman really cares about the city of Chicago….she's the only one that could've brought Chicago together again. Harold Washington does NOT do that" and other interviews.
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
May: Eddie Eiinhorn on "his two favorite subjects, baseball and himself", Chicago hotlines, Mario's italian ice stand, and report on infertility issues. June: "Kids line" hotline for lonely kids in Chicago's suburbs, the "Racoon Club" 1920s entertainment, and interview with activist Walter "Slim" Coleman "who recently called Ald. Vrdolyak a 12-letter-hyphenated-expletive".
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
(Former) mayor Jane Byrne interview on her election "It shook a lot of timbers" and the prospects of her serving a second term; the status of US railroads; the ultimate Chicago hot dog.
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
Nudist couples, seafood restaurant; Marj interviews Mike Royko.
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
Marj interviews Ed Vrdolyak "we certainly are in the middle of a mud pile".
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
September: Chicago's Polka Queen, "some of Chicago's most romantic places," and survival tips from "Dean of Chicago City Council" Vito Marzullo, 88, (including Mayor Washington quote: "would you like him to run for re-election?" "No." And Harry Golden: "he was preaching Americanism even before he knew the English language" October: Author Russell Miller on Playboy mansion & Hefner; Vietnam Vets having trouble finding civilian jobs 15 years afte...
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
Child sexual abuse accusations at area preschool; Mike Royko interview, as he releases "Like I Was Sayin'" collection of his columns; on becoming a celebrity "I don't like it…" ; Jamaican food; "Day in the Country" exhibit.
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
side A - Feb 85 - SNL star Mary Gross; places to invest, Chicago's Moosehead Lounge side B - Mar 85 - cut beginning - lawsuit by school superintendent; Sandy Houseman - Wheel of Fortune; Dave Jaffe kid; Restaurant Florence.
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
Ald. Ed Vrdolyak as he considers challenging Mayor Washington; recycling; Social service housing program that pairs young/old.
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Marj Halperin - Chicago Beat
(Some warping/misalignment) "Stop Making Sense" movie success in Chicago market; where "the modern American teen" spends their money, a look at their buying power as a market; "Old Germany" at a local restaurant with singing waiters and TV ad makers "fighting for your attention" as the number of commercials aired is growing.
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