Around the turn of the century, the great American wilderness was disappearing. That’s when an architect named Dwight Perkins devised an ambitious plan to save Chicagoland’s natural treasures — by creating the state’s first forest preserves. . Over the next 15 years, Perkins would weather legal battles and partisan squabbling in pursuit of his vision.
Bay Curious - For Love and Hair
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting people in ways big and small. Some are very personal. What's it like to date an immunocompromised person right now? And, listener Marcus Adams wants to know if hair stylists are allowed to make home visits if they take safety precautions. We've got answers.
Additional Reading:
- Getting Through Coronavirus Blues: Cute GIFs and Weird Haircuts
- Under Stay-at-Home Orders, Bay Area Takes Hair Maintenance Into Own Hands
- Dating While Immunocompromised
Reported by Chloe Veltman and Asal Ehsanipour. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Katie McMurran and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Kathleen Quillen, and Sasha Kohka.
Curious City - I Started Sewing Clothes For My Barbies — Now I’m Sewing Face Masks
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.
Curious City - I Started Sewing Clothes For My Barbies — Now I’m Sewing Face Masks
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.
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.
San Antonio Storybook - The New Normal
This past month has been anything but normal. As the city of San Antonio continues to shelter in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we all find ourselves navigating situations we never have before. The stories of how we as a community are dealing with all this may not be heroic, but they’re worth sharing all the same.
Bay Curious - Cleaner Air and Weirder Dreams — Such Is Life in April 2020
As we shelter-in-place, a lot of people on Twitter are sharing the strange dreams they're having. We look into why that might be. And, listener Anne-Marie Rochè wants to know: Are there any positives for the natural environment from humans staying home?
Additional Reading:
- Feel Like COVID-19 Is Invading Your Dreams? You're Not Alone
- Has Sheltering-In-Place Been Good For the Environment?
- Bay Area Pollution Way Down, Air District Estimates
Reported by Michelle Wiley and Kevin Stark. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Asal Ehsanipour, Katie McMurran and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey and Don Clyde.
the memory palace - Episode 162: A Strange Land
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.
A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.
Music
Ruth and Sylvie from Daniel Hart’s score to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
The Walk from Bernard Hermann’s score to Tender is the Night
Reflector by Bing and Ruth
Requiem from Nico Mulhy’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Under Siege from Warren Ellis’ score to Mustang
Spaces in Time from Per Nargard and the Stavenger Symphony
Theme de l’eau from Hikaru Hayashi’s score to The Naked Island
Bus Ride from the score to Wildlike
Duke Ellington playing Single Petal from a Rose
Notes
The Boring Talks - #51 – Oboe Reeds
Gouging, scraping and chopping. The reporter Chloe Veltman shows us the painstaking art of making an oboe reed, and how it can be the difference between sounding like a singing nightingale, or a belligerent duck.
James Ward introduces another curious talk about a subject that may seem boring, but is actually very interesting.... maybe.