Studs Terkel

PHOTOS: Remembering Studs Terkel On His 100th Birthday

Posted 05.16.2012

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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 ...

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Behind the Scenes at the Chicago Literary Awards

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 01.01.2012

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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?

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From Woody Guthrie to Little Nut Tree: Chatting With Rob Wasserman and Dan Zanes

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Arlo Guthrie, Carol Channing, Charles Mingus, Rob Wasserman, Pete Seeger, G.E. Smith, Dan Zanes, Neil Young, Edie Brickell, Joan Osbourne, Bobby McFerrin, The Blind Boys, Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, Madeleine Peyroux, Van Dyke Parks, Elvis Costello, Philip Glass, Bruce Hornsby, Matthew Broderick, Lou Reed, Woody Guthri, Chris Whitley, Tom Morello, Suzanne Vega, Studs Terkel, Wilco, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Angelique Kidjo, Sheryl Crow, Del Fuegos, Nora Guthrie, The Grateful Dead, Michael Franti, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Sharon Jones, Ani DiFranco, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

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."

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Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

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"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.

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Finding Meaning At Work

Sherry Moss | Posted 11.17.2011

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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?

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Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's First Induction Ceremony Honors Our Greatest Writers

Donald G. Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was like any party, I guess, except this was a party for dead people. Six dead people. Six dead writers.

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WATCH: Studs Terkel On What's Missing From Modern Life

Posted 11.17.2011

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This Friday, StoryCorps, an oral history initiative that helps Americans record and archive stories from their lives, will celebrate the third annual ...

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Studs Terkel's FBI File Unearthed, With A Few Surprises

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Long before the FBI identified him as a suspected communist and spent decades watching him and talking to confidential informants abou...

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How to Go From Jamoke to Chicagoan in Under 40 Minutes

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Jacobs, Bill Veeck, Easter Egg Hunt, Joe Cummings, Studs Terkel, Patterson, Nelson Algren, Media Burn Independent Video Archive, Chicago History, New Jersey, David Murray, San Francisco, Mike Royko, Tom Weinberg, Chicago Philosopher, Cabrini-Green, Wbbm, Jane Byrne, Chicago News

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.

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Happy Terkel Day

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Chicago, Without Eddie

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Why you Might Want to Attend Saturday's 'Nelson-Tennial'

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Studs Terkel's Final Face-To-Face Interview: 'Hope Dies Last'

AARP | Alex Kotlowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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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'...

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A Few More Words For Studs

Jamie Kalven | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Studs Terkel Honored At Steppenwolf

Posted 05.25.2011

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"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...

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David Schwimmer Joining Studs Terkel Tribute

Posted 05.25.2011

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David Schwimmer will join a cast of notable Chicagoans paying tribute to the late Studs Terkel at Steppenwolf Theatre Monday, Chris Jones reports in ...

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Remembering Studs Terkel

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Studs Terkel Death, Radicalism, Studs Terkel Working, Chicago, Oral History, Studs Terkel, Entertainment News

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.

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Bill Ayers Tells His Side: 'A Bit Surreal'

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...

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Getting to Work

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.

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Some Words For Studs

Jamie Kalven | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Studs' Last Stand

Curtis Black | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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This Vote's For You, Studs

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

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A spirit of anticipation hovers all around, the feeling that something else, something different, better -- call it hope -- is just around the corner.

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What A Country, What an Election

R.W. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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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!

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Chicagoans Studs Terkel and Barack Obama (and the Election of 2008)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Remembering Studs

Howard Wolinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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