PHOTOS: Remembering Studs Terkel On His 100th Birthday
One of Chicago's most famous storytellers would have turned 100 Wednesday, and the city is showing its respects with a host of tributes to one of our ...
One of Chicago's most famous storytellers would have turned 100 Wednesday, and the city is showing its respects with a host of tributes to one of our ...
Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 01.01.2012
It is wonderful to live in a city so rich of history, so rich of character, so rich of talent and art. But do we celebrate it enough?
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.18.2011
On Woody Guthrie: "in a short life he saw so much, but he was really present and there with people. I think he's just really vital, not just in his vision, but as a spokesman for America."
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
"A first job may be similar to one's experience with grade school," Larry Ragan wrote in a private memoir. "It becomes engraved in the memory." And since Larry was my first boss, he is engraved in my memory.
Sherry Moss | Posted 11.17.2011
Did the majority of these workers truly not find any joy or satisfaction in their working lives? Did they really find no meaning in the activity which took up most of their waking hours?
Donald G. Evans | Posted 05.25.2011
It was like any party, I guess, except this was a party for dead people. Six dead people. Six dead writers.
Posted 11.17.2011
This Friday, StoryCorps, an oral history initiative that helps Americans record and archive stories from their lives, will celebrate the third annual ...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Long before the FBI identified him as a suspected communist and spent decades watching him and talking to confidential informants abou...
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
I've got this intern from San Francisco working for me. How'm I ever gonna explain to this kid what makes Chicago different, different from anywhere else? I'm gonna start with these six short videos.
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
Well, why wouldn't we rename Labor Day after Studs? He narrated this film about workers' health and safety that was banned by Ronald Reagan's OSHA. Most copies were destroyed. But not all.
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
In the first conversation I had with Studs Terkel I mentioned I was friends with Ed Reardon. "How do you know Ed Reardon?" he demanded.
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
As Chicago's memory of Nelson Algren dims, he and his vision of this place seem to be taking over my mind. I'm not entirely pleased about this development.
AARP | Alex Kotlowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
Shortly before his death in October at age 96, I visited my dear friend Studs Terkel. His crackling voice was thinner than it used to be, and he didn'...
Jamie Kalven | Posted 05.25.2011
Three days after Studs Terkel's death, the New York Times published a column by critic Edward Rothstein titled "An Appraisal: He Gave Voice to Many, Among Them Himself." The piece is a striking instance of the low art of red-baiting disguised as high-minded criticism.
Posted 05.25.2011
"Gathering on Monday night at Steppenwolf Theatre to celebrate Terkel's life and work was a group of 18 actors and musicians who gave voice to Terkel...
Posted 05.25.2011
David Schwimmer will join a cast of notable Chicagoans paying tribute to the late Studs Terkel at Steppenwolf Theatre Monday, Chris Jones reports in ...
Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011
It is sad that Studs died just before Barack Obama won this election. My guess is he already completed his absentee ballot. Obama is a Chicago candidate, one Studs was proud of.
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 05.25.2011
Bill Ayers, who stayed quiet throughout the presidential campaign even as he became its central lightning rod, finally broke his silence on Election D...
Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011
Throughout the campaign, this idea of getting down to work told us what kind of person we'd be getting as President.
Jamie Kalven | Posted 05.25.2011
Together with my father, Studs Terkel dramatized for me the joys and possibilities of conversation. They planted the seeds of the conviction that there is nothing that cannot be talked about.
Curtis Black | Posted 05.25.2011
Studs Terkel spent his life giving voice to the concerns of the voiceless, and it's a mark of his consistency that in his final days he stood up for men who were denied fair trials decades ago.
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011
A spirit of anticipation hovers all around, the feeling that something else, something different, better -- call it hope -- is just around the corner.
R.W. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011
In my fifth decade of life, I thought very little could excite me. And I had not the vaguest idea that I would help make history. And I didn't even have to leave my house!
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
John Steinbeck's widow asked Studs Terkel to write an introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The Grapes of Wrath. And while he was working o...
Howard Wolinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Studs was an advocate for progressive change and I wish he had lived long enough to hear what he had to say on the outcome of Tuesday's Presidential election.
Posted 05.16.2012