(Nov. 4, 2011) Chicago Public Media announced that Greta Johnsen has joined the Public Affairs Department of WBEZ 91.5FM as a new weekend host, handling on-air duties Saturday and Sunday mornings, from 7am to noon.
Announcements
CHICAGO (August 19, 2011) – Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) is thrilled to announce the station’s fourth annual monthly event series, Off-Air Series, beginning this September and continuing through June. Extending the listening experience, the series allows public radio listeners and others to come see what they’ve been hearing and celebrate Chicago! Off-Air Series again kicks off with the ever popular Chicago Chef Battle 2011 where five local chefs will be challenged to create a dish using one of Goose Island’s beers as an ingredient.
CHICAGO (May 9, 2011) –Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) concludes its Off-Air Series by celebrating Chicago’s rich landscape devoted to emerging artists and art education. What’s Your Art? Celebrating the Art Centers of Chicago takes place at the Chicago Cultural Center Yates Hall, 78 East Washington, on Saturday, June 4 from 1:00 – 5:00pm. The event is free, but reservations are recommended.
CHICAGO (March 29, 2011) –Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its Off-Air Series and in collaboration with the Illinois Humanities Council celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides by producing Traveling Down Freedom’s Main Line: The Freedom Rides at 50 at the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 East 56th Place, Saturday, May 7 at 3:30pm. The event is free, but reservations are required.
CHICAGO (March 22, 2011) – Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) is thrilled to present the 4th Annual Global Activism Expo, bringing together hundreds of Chicago-area activists at the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road, on Saturday, April 30 from 12-6pm. The all day event is free to the public.
CHICAGO (March 15, 2011) –Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its live event series, the Off-Air Series, with an exclusive chance to participate in a new culinary conversation and learn just how little is actually known about tasting and brewing coffee. Designed to be the largest ‘traditional coffee cupping’ (aka tasting) ever held in Chicago, Don’t Call Me Joe, in collaboration with Chicago’s own Intelligentsia Coffee, will be held at Catalyst Ranch, 656 W. Randolph Street, on Saturday, April 9 at 7:00pm.
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(CHICAGO) March 11, 2011 – WBEZ 91.5 FM, one of the country’s premiere public radio stations, announced today that its 2011 Spring Pledge Drive exceeded both its membership and revenue goals. Over the eight-day Pledge Drive, WBEZ secured 9,198 donations (above a goal of 9,000), with total revenue of $1,121,381 (above a goal of $1 million).
CHICAGO (January 31, 2011) –Chicago Public Media (Vocalo 89.5 FM/WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its Off-Air Series with The Alternative History of Chicago Theater (Abridged) at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division Street, on Wednesday, March 2 at 7:00pm. Reception to follow.
CHICAGO (January 6, 2011) –Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its Off-Air Series with Parneshia, Anita, Audrey and Jane: The Creative Process of Writing at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, on Sunday, February 6 at 6:00pm.
CHICAGO (January 25, 2011) – Chicago Public Media (Vocalo 89.5/WBEZ 91.5), Columbia College Chicago, and Young Chicago Authors are thrilled to present the 11th Annual Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB): The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival. The largest of its kind in the world, LTAB is Chicago’s rapidly-growing teen poetry festival, this year taking place at various venues around Chicago beginning February 19 with finals on March 12, 2011.
CHICAGO (December 7, 2010) – Kicking off 2011, Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its Off-Air Series with The 3rd Annual Winter Block Party for Chicago’s Hip-Hop Arts at Chicago Urban Art Society, 2229 S. Halsted Street, on Saturday, January 15 from 11:00am – 10:00pm.
CHICAGO (November 2, 2010) – Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its Off-Air Series with This I Believe: An Evening with Bob Edwards at the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 126 East Chestnut Street, on Wednesday, December 8 at 7:00pm.
CHICAGO (November 1, 2010) – The latest installment in the popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series will be D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 rock documentary, Don’t Look Back, about the life and times of Bob Dylan in his prime, to be screened at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N.
CHICAGO (September 29, 2010) – Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5 FM) continues its Off-Air Series with Drive-In Double Feature! The Detective and The Dude at the largest outdoor cinema in Illinois, Cascade Drive-In, 1100 E. North Avenue in West Chicago, on Sunday, November 7 at 6pm and 8:30pm.
CHICAGO (September 16, 2010) Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt, a fresh new multi-media series focusing on the future of the Industrial Midwest, from its financial outlook to its status as a new center for film production and its signature food offerings, will air its inaugural installment Monday, September 20, 2010. Locally, the segment will air on “Eight Forty-Eight,” WBEZ 91.5 FM’s award-winning daily magazine featuring news, views and culture, which airs weekdays from 9-10 a.m. (with repeats at 9 p.m.).