Life Interrupted is a new weekly series from Curious City about daily life in Chicago during the pandemic. In today's episode, Lucy Keating first learned to sew on her grandmother’s Singer sewing machine. Today, she’s reviving her skills to make masks for COVID-19.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - A Dose Of Reality: What Lies Ahead For Covid-Covered America
When it comes to battling the covid-19 virus, it's not just that we’re not doing things right. It’s that we’re doing things wrong. And we’re doing them for the wrong reasons. We still have a chance to turn things around and save lives, but the future is going to look a lot different than we imagined a few months ago. NY Times’ science and health reporter Donald McNeil looks into that future in his latest article “The Coronavirus In America: The Year Ahead”
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Comedian Cameron Esposito’s New Memoir Is Painfully Funny
Comic Cameron Esposito talks about feeling different and alone growing up in the very straight, very Catholic, very bucolic western suburbs of Chicago in her sometimes painful, often hilarious new memoir Save Yourself
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Former CDC Director Talks About ‘Boxing In’ COVID-19
Former CDC chief Dr. Tom Frieden talks about what needs to be done now, and going forward, to make people safe and to beat back the spread of COVID-19
Curious City - Looking For Quarantine Recipes? Try This Chicago-Invented Dish
Two Albany Park chefs turned a Chinese-Korean chicken dish into a signature Chicago food. Listen to the history, then go to wbez.org/curiouscity for recipes to make at home.
Curious City - Looking For Quarantine Recipes? Try This Chicago-Invented Dish
Two Albany Park chefs turned a Chinese-Korean chicken dish into a signature Chicago food. Listen to the history, then go to wbez.org/curiouscity for recipes to make at home.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: April 24, 2020
Two journalistic heavyweights, Carol Marin and Mick Dumke, take you inside the biggest stories in Chicago and Illinois this week on our Friday News Roundup.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago Author Suggests Things To Read, Watch, Do While We Stay At Home
Hearing from doctors and epidemiologists is important, but we can’t hear from them every day. Which is why today’s RESET guest is Chicago author Rebecca Makkai. Makkai shares things to read, watch and eat while we’re sheltering in place.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How Close Are We To A Covid-19 Vaccine?
Virologist and DePaul University associate professor of health sciences Sarah Connolly describes what it will take to create a covid-19 vaccine, and how far away scientists are from a human trial.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How And Why Oil Is $0 Per Barrel Today
Journalist and author Antonia Juhasz explains why oil has plunged to record-low levels, and what it means for the industry, the American economy, and for you.