As Hyde Park shakes off a short winter, the University of Chicago’s 64th annual Folk Festival will inject some warmth into the neighborhood this weekend with two days of music,
What festival organizer Nick Rommel calls a “64-year-old jubilee of song and dance and stories that come out of the sometimes decaying, sometimes beautifully aged woodwork of this nation” returns February 9 and 10.
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - The Fargo Film Festival is March 21-25. We visit with Emily Sheskin, the director of the documentary feature JessZilla. It chronicles the journey of boxing protégé Jesselyn Silva as she has an eye on the Olympics, but then receives a horrible diagnosis. ~~~ Recent news about bank failures have created some concern about the banking industry in general. North Dakota has quite a past when it comes to banking. In a story we first aired last August, Nick Rommel explores the history and the legacy of the State Bank of ND. ~~~ We share a BirdNote on how birds stop flying.
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys usually bypass Chicago when driving through the Midwest, but, for the UChicago Folk Fest on February 10 and 11, the Grammy-nominated folk band made the city their destination. “It took us a long time to get here, cause your traffic is really bad,” quipped the band’s mandolinist C.J. Lewandowski, “[But] we’re.