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Rebecca Webster is an Oneida teacher, author, and food activist from Wisconsin. She currently teaches American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is an acclaimed book author and her most recent work, “Our Precious Corn”, is due out May 1, 2023. In it, Becky Webster weaves together the words of explorers, military officers, and anthropologists, as well as historic and other c...

Bridging the gap # 3: Question for Mark Panick, founder of the bands Black Friars Social Club and Razorhouse… Tall Paul, a Native American Hip Hop artist from Minnesota has a question for Mark Panick, founder of the bands Black Friars Social Club and Razorhouse… --- Mark Panick is a Chicago musician, bandleader, and songwriter. His musical projects include Black Friars Social Club, an Americana ba...

Bridging the gap # 3: Question for Mark Panick, founder of the bands Black Friars Social Club and Razorhouse… Tall Paul, a Native American Hip Hop artist from Minnesota has a question for Mark Panick, founder of the bands Black Friars Social Club and Razorhouse… --- Mark Panick is a Chicago musician, bandleader, and songwriter. His musical projects include Black Friars Social Club, an Americana ba...

Bridging the gap #2: Question for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive… Dorianne Laux, an award-winning poet based in Richmond, California, has a question for Mike Vinopal, a Chicago musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Local Motive… Local Motive’s self-declared goal is to play lyrical funk that rhythmically rocks and triggers contemplation. The new Local Motive full-lengt...

Bridging the gap #2: Question for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive… Dorianne Laux, an award-winning poet based in Richmond, California, has a question for Mike Vinopal, a Chicago musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Local Motive… Local Motive’s self-declared goal is to play lyrical funk that rhythmically rocks and triggers contemplation. The new Local Motive full-lengt...

Bridging the gap #1: --- Question for Daniel Gunderson… --- Karen Harryman, a Los Angeles poet originally from Kentucky, has a question for Daniel Gunderson, a Chicago musician… --- Daniel Gunderson is a Chicago musician and multi-instrumentalist who has performed with several bands and musicians over the last forty years. His debut solo album, Remember, was released via Ravenslake Music in Octobe...

Bridging the gap #1: --- Question for Daniel Gunderson… --- Karen Harryman, a Los Angeles poet originally from Kentucky, has a question for Daniel Gunderson, a Chicago musician… --- Daniel Gunderson is a Chicago musician and multi-instrumentalist who has performed with several bands and musicians over the last forty years. His debut solo album, Remember, was released via Ravenslake Music in Octobe...

K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in  2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic,  2007). The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South. She is originally from Kentucky and lives in Los Angeles. --- https://poets.org/poet/k-d-harryman https://karenharr...

K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in  2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic,  2007). The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South. She is originally from Kentucky and lives in Los Angeles. --- https://poets.org/poet/k-d-harryman https://karenharr...

David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney,  and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public  policy deal with emerging science and technology. He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide. --- http://davidkoepsell.com/ --- Interview conducted by Nikolai Taras and Ma...

David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney,  and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public  policy deal with emerging science and technology. He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide. --- http://davidkoepsell.com/ --- Interview conducted by Nikolai Taras and Ma...

Omar Cadena, a first-generation born in the United States to Cuban  and Ecuadorian parents and a proud Chicago native, is the owner and chef  of Omarcitos Latin Café, located in the Logan Square neighborhood in  Chicago. Their mission is to give Chicago a chingón Latin Street  food experience where the vibe is perfect, the music hits right, and  people feel like la familia...

Omar Cadena, a first-generation born in the United States to Cuban  and Ecuadorian parents and a proud Chicago native, is the owner and chef  of Omarcitos Latin Café, located in the Logan Square neighborhood in  Chicago. Their mission is to give Chicago a chingón Latin Street  food experience where the vibe is perfect, the music hits right, and  people feel like la familia...

Sherri Shorting is an Anishinaabe singer and songwriter from the Little Saskatchewan First Nation, in Manitoba, Canada. Sherri's songwriting talent comes from her own life experiences and looking through the eyes of others. --- https://www.facebook.com/sherrishorting https://www.sakihiwe.ca/artist-directory/complete-directory/display,artist/232/sherri-shorting --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixe...

Sherri Shorting is an Anishinaabe singer and songwriter from the Little Saskatchewan First Nation, in Manitoba, Canada. Sherri's songwriting talent comes from her own life experiences and looking through the eyes of others. --- https://www.facebook.com/sherrishorting https://www.sakihiwe.ca/artist-directory/complete-directory/display,artist/232/sherri-shorting --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixe...

John Primer is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer  and guitarist who played behind Junior Wells in the house band at  Theresa’s Lounge and as a member of the bands of Willie Dixon, Muddy  Waters and Magic Slim before launching an award-winning career as a  front man, carrying forward the traditional Windy City sound into the  21st century. --- https://www....

John Primer is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer  and guitarist who played behind Junior Wells in the house band at  Theresa’s Lounge and as a member of the bands of Willie Dixon, Muddy  Waters and Magic Slim before launching an award-winning career as a  front man, carrying forward the traditional Windy City sound into the  21st century. --- https://www....

Derek Wu, alias “Brother” Derek, is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter  whose most recent musical projects draw from a deep well of  genre-malleable tunes that are each more a roller coaster ride than a  straight shot, at times weird but always groovy. --- https://brotherderek.bandcamp.com/ --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker --- Radi...

Derek Wu, alias “Brother” Derek, is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter  whose most recent musical projects draw from a deep well of  genre-malleable tunes that are each more a roller coaster ride than a  straight shot, at times weird but always groovy. --- https://brotherderek.bandcamp.com/ --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker --- Radi...

Anatoly Liberman is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet,  translator of poetry, and literary critic. Liberman is a professor in  the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of  Minnesota and publishes a blog, "The Oxford Etymologist". One of his  most recent books is “Take My Word For It; A Dictionary of English  Idioms” which explores the o...

Anatoly Liberman is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet,  translator of poetry, and literary critic. Liberman is a professor in  the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of  Minnesota and publishes a blog, "The Oxford Etymologist". One of his  most recent books is “Take My Word For It; A Dictionary of English  Idioms” which explores the o...

Carol C is the lead singer and co-founder of the popular electronic  soul band, Si*Sé. Already established in NYC’s music scene as a  globetrotting drum & bass DJ and party promoter since before the  band’s inception, the success of Si*Sé made Carol C’s vocals,  songwriting, and impeccable ear for production high in demand.  Collaborations with David Byrne, Thievery Co...

Christina Jarvis is a professor of English and Literature and a  passionate scholar and researcher of Kurt Vonnegut and his work. Her  most recent book, 'Lucky Mud', explores the late 20th century author's  relationship with science and the effects of climate change. Here, she discusses a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It  is set in Chicago, and its title is deri...

Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, educator, and  performer based in Oakland, California. Her mission is to create, and  help others create, poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and  the body to provoke meaningful dialogue and social change. 'Tiny Fires',  her play about scavengers living on a landfill in the Phillippines,  will have its world...

Jessica Pamonicutt is the Executive Chef & Owner of Ketapanen  Kitchen, Chicago’s first and only Native American Pop-Up Kitchen &  Catering Company which has recently started to operate daily at the  Field Museum of Chicago. As a chef, Jessica was trained at Le Cordon  Bleu School of Culinary Arts. She is an enrolled member of the Menominee  Indian Tribe of Wiscons...