Dynamic Range Podcast
1) 026: Scientist says animals, not just people, have culture
Dr. Elizabeth Lonsdorf studies chimps in the wild and at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. She says there's no word besides culture to account for some of the behaviors she's witnessed among these animals. ...Show More
2) 025: Saigon Sisters dish on streeet food
While Chicago wrestles with new food truck legislation, there's at least one restaurant comfortable blurring the lines between street food and sit-down fare.
3) 024: A parenting lesson from Muhammad Ali and Nikki Giovanni
What do you do if the world’s greatest boxer bops your son on the head? If you’re poet Nikki Giovanni, you let the kid work that stuff out for himself. Recorded at the Chicago Public Library in April.
4) Muhammad Ali and Nikki Giovanni’s Parenting 101
You might not think a feminist poet and a boastful boxer would have much in common. But when the poet is Nikki Giovanni and the boxer is Muhammad Ali, you would be wrong.
5) 023: Scaling Aqua
When four young men decided to scale the outside of Chicago's Aqua tower as if it were Mt. Everest, its architect applauded. Here, Jeanne Gang explains why she sees buildings as stand-ins for the natu...Show More
6) 022: Hot Doug's Sohn relfects on Chicago's former foie gras ban
Next week marks five years since Chicago’s short lived foie gras ban was passed into law. Doug Sohn, the man behind renown North Side hot dog joint Hot Doug’s, waxes hysterical about the period of tim...Show More
7) 021: Aubade: A Chicago poem
About Chicago Sarah Gardner writes: So this is what is meant by the kingdom of man. A Chicago poem to celebrate National Poetry Month. Recorded at Woman Made Gallery in May of 2010.
8) 020: New City Council, old ways?
Chicago gets 15 new Alderman on May 16th, but will this new crop of lawmakers cause a sea change in the City Council? Or will it be more of the same old, same old? WBEZ's Steve Edwards argues that if ...Show More
9) 019: A Chicago gang history snapshot
WBEZ's Natalie Moore and NEIU's Lance Williams tell the story of the Blackstone Rangers, a South Side gang that changed the face of Chicago starting in the 1960s. They spoke to the Society of Midland ...Show More
10) 018: The day Grant Achatz got cancer
A world class chef losing his sense of taste sounds like a bad joke. But it was a deadly serious reality for Grant Achatz, co-founder of Alinea in Chicago.