morningamp:

The exhibit War Baby/Love Child at the DePaul Art Museum highlights the work of mixed race artists who share Asian heritage in their identities. Curator Laura Kina and artist Mequitta Ahuja joined AMp hosts Brian Babylon and Molly Adams in the studio this morning and discussed their personal family lineage, the stereotype stamped on mixed children whose roots came from Asian countries where the United States was involved in, and how kindship is formed among “war babies” through artistic expression and exhibits.

Photo Courtesy of Maggie Dzubiek/Depaulia

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morningamp:

Following up on a story about Kiera Wilmot, the Florida teenager who was expelled and possibly facing felony charges for setting off a small explosion in an “unauthorized science experiment” , as it turns out she will NOT be going through any criminal proceedings. Morning AMp hosts Brian Babylon and Molly Adams ask their listeners what they thought about the Zero-Tolerance policies for public schools. LA Public Schools have stopped theirs for non-violent offenses. Brian and Molly also touched base on how Finland’s public school system is ranked #1 in the world and probe into why that is the case. Perhaps free mandatory lunch, universal healthcare for all and no homework does the trick?

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Megan Mercier says the world is built on competition. Women are told that they can essentially be and do whatever their heart desires regardless of their gender, but the hard-hitting reality of competition and that not being totally true sets in.

The creator of the performance along with director Stephanie Shaw join Shantell & Luis in studio to talk about the performance which “smashes the traditional American beauty pageant form with real stories of fully-grown girls stumbling into womanhood.”

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Culinary historian and author of the book “Man Eats Dog: Hot Dog Culture in America” Bruce Kraig joined Shantell & Luis in studio. He, along with photographer and professor Patty Carroll, talk about their book which tells a history of not just the hot dog in Chicago, but in America.

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After the first listen of their full-length The Remains of An Effort, it’s clear that Train Company is more than a blues band. The group crafts a diverse multi-layered sound with discernible traces of jazz, pop and even orchestral arrangements, all while effortlessly switching between anthemic rock vocals and airy indie rock introspection.

Live From Studio 10 airs every Wednesday at 8pm CST on Vocalo 90.7 FM (CHI) / 89.5 FM (NWI) and Vocalo.org, and features emerging local bands and music artists (with the occasional national act stopping by). No other station brings you this much local music, and no other show in the region does it live. The show is hosted by Jesse Menendez, produced by Fyodor Sakhnovski and engineered by Adam Yoffe. Subscribe to the podcast here: bitly.com/vocaloLFS10

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Each week the Overdrive speaks with one of WBEZ’s bureau reporters. This week, NWI bureau reporter Mike Puente joins Shantell & Luis on the air to talk about the runway extension of Gary/Chicago International Airport set to open later this year and other plans for the complex. NWI residents Lorell K & Theo the Thinker weigh in on the subject.

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“Downwardly mobile doesn’t necessarily mean that your parents are paying your rent. But it does come with a certain set of expectations. Most of these people are educated - most of these people thought that they were going to get an awesome job out of college and now all of a sudden they’re either living with their parents, or they’re living with five roommates and they’re still 30 [ years old], or they’re just not making very much money: they don’t have health insurance, they don’t have a 401K, they don’t have any of these markers of adulthood. When you hear people obsess about Millennials they’re usually talking about downwardly mobile Millennials they’re not talking about the permanent poor. […] The word ‘broke’ kind of connotates not that you’ve been in a family that is in generations worth of poverty. It means that you’re cash poor but you have a certain set of expectations.”
-Nonna Willis-Aronowitz on her latest work concerning the struggle towards employment for the Millennials.

Writers April Scissors and Nona Willis-Aronowitz (a Founding Member of the Council) joined the AMp hosts Brian Babylon and Molly Adams this morning to discuss Nonna’s latest research on how the economy—especially employment rates—has yet to turn up for young people. If you’re interested in knowing more about the downwardly mobile Millennials, check out Nonna’s article published on the Atlantic Cities.

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It’s graduation season and intern Erica DeAngelis is in the studio talking about a commencement controversy at Boston College.

Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is boycotting Boston College’s graduation ceremony because of who the commencement speaker is: Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Kenny supporting new legislation that allows Irish physicians to perform emergency abortion procedures only in cases when the life of the mother is in immediate danger. Erica talks with hosts Molly Adams and Brian Babylon and fellow interns Maggie Dziubek and Gillian McGhee, about whether Cardinal O’Malley’s actions help the pro-life movement or are just a distraction.

Then, everyone goes around to discuss who their all-time commencement speaker choice would be (spoiler: someone’s includes the Nutty Professor). 

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THE INTERNS HAVE TAKEN OVER FEMINIST WEDNESDAY!

Gillian McGhee, Maggie Dziubek, and Erica DeAngelis came prepared with some discussions of their own. In Gillian’s segment, we take a look at a video dubbed “The Ted Talk that Might Make Every Man a Feminist.” It has been getting a lot of hype on various social media platforms. Brian, Molly, and the interns discuss why it has received so much attention, its shortcomings, and the valid points speaker Jackson Katz makes about sexism and rape culture in the US.

“He tries to make it gender neutral, but is also like ‘Let’s be real about who commits these crimes…’ This is a human issue, we all live on this planet together.” —Molly Adams on “Violence and Silence” TedxTalk.

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