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This installment of the Barber Shop Show is our Mid-Month Mash Up, where we check-in with our favorite local journalists and bloggers. They tell us about recent developments in the news that they liked and ones that they disliked. Then they tell us those moments that made them go WTF!?!

Among other stories, this week we talked about the mass layoffs of Sun-Times Photographers, what’s going on in Uptown, and a study that suggests that it may be better to want expensive things… but not to actually get them.

We were joined by:
Jen Sabella of DNAinfo Chicago
Yana Kunichoff of the Chicago Reporter
and
Yolanda Perdomo of WBEZ

The Barber Shop Show airs live from Carter’s Barber Shop in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood on Fridays at Noon (CST) with a rebroadcast Saturdays at Noon. http:/vocalo.org 89.5fm (NWI/CHI) and 90.7fm (CHI).

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On this installment of the Barber Shop Show, we talked about the changes impacting riders of the CTA, including the Red Line south of Roosevelt being shut down until October 2013. There’s also a lot of changes around the new Ventra card, and the Jeffrey Jump (and early foray into high speed bus service). We also hear about proposed changes to bus service on 31st Street, that could impact residents in Bronzeville, Bridgeport, Armour Square, and Little Village.

Will all these changes amount to better, faster more reliable public transit in Chicago?

Joining us at the shop:
• Jon Hilkevitch, Transportation Reporter for the Chicago Tribune,

• Claudia Ayala, a Public Transit and Enviromental Justice activist with the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization.

• and Brenna Conway, Campaign Manager at the Active Transportation Alliance.

The Barber Shop Show airs live from Carter’s Barber Shop in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood on Fridays at Noon. vocalo.org 89.5fm (NWI/CHI) and 90.7fm (CHI).

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How does a bat boy for the Chicago Cubs end up on the 6 o’clock news? That’s the story of Walter Jacobson, a journalist and commenter who spent 50 years in Chicago TV news and is now being presented with a Chicago Legend award at the Chicago International Film Festival.  Luis and Shantell talk with Jacobson about his long-standing career and the stories he recounts in his memoir Walter’s Perspective: A Memoir of Fifty Years in Chicago TV News.

Find out what it was like to play catch with Jackie Robinson and how he got his first byline by getting naked at an Indiana nudist colony, plus he discusses some of the more turbulent parts of his career and offers plenty of advice on how to practice journalism.

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barbershopshow:

On this installment of the Barber Shop Show, we check-in with our favorite local journalists and bloggers. They told us about recent developments in the news that they liked and ones they disliked. Then they told us those moments that made them go WTF!?!

Joining us at the shop were:

Alison Cuddy (WBEZ)

Maria Zamudio (The Chicago Reporter)

Lynette Holloway (The Chicago Defender and The Root)

And in addition to our usual likes, dislikes and wtf’s, we also talked about media’s handling of the tragedy in Boston, and the role social media has been playing in disseminating information (for better or for worse).

The Barber Shop Show airs live from Carter’s Barber Shop in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood on Fridays at Noon (CST). http:/vocalo.org 89.5fm (NWI/CHI) and 90.7fm (CHI).

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morningamp:

“In a year or two from now will people still be mad about this?” - Host Brian Babylon, on if the CPS closings be good for students in the long run. The Morning AMp will have WBEZ’s Becky Vivea in the studio tomorrow to talk more about the economic impact of the CPS closings.

WBEZ’s morning reporter Lauren Chooljian is ahead of the curve, telling us what stories will have the media riled up this week. She joins hosts Brian Babylon and Molly Adams in the studio to talk about the closing of more than 50 CPS elementary schools, Rahm’s absenteeism when it comes to school news, gay marriage at the Supreme Court, and her Year 25 series.

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WBEZ Reporter Lauren Chooljian is the first person in the building every morning. This morning she joined hosts Brian Babylon and Molly Adams as she shared stories that are consuming the Chicago media and her own little world, from the Wells Street Bridge closure and ensuing traffic snarls to a new treatment for HIV in infants. And how about them Blackhawks, folks?!

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