DescriptionIn this comical collection of memories, storyteller Daniel Pinkwater tells how he grew into the beloved figure he is today: a robust genius of the printed page and a rotund genie of the radio. In inimitable fashion, Pinkwater recounts the conversation with his father that suddenly made him an art major in college. He describes his inauguration as a sculptor in a sleazy Chicago art factory and recalls setting off for the bright center of the American art scene...or at least as close as Hoboken, New Jersey. As millions of radio listeners already know, no one has had a life quite like Daniel Pinkwater's.
DescriptionHow did a goat get a baseball blown up? Why do you need a lawnchair in a snowstorm? How much clout does it take to reverse the flow of a river? In what city can you play 16" softball, listen to the best blues on the planet, and eat a delicious chicken vesuvio dinner? Learn all this and more in this program of tales, stories, and surburban legends of the Greatest City on Earth. Our hometown favorite, film and television star Dennis Farina, regales you with wonderful, humorous stories of Chicago. It's Dennis' love letter to the Windy City, everybody's kind of town!
DescriptionFrom a distinguished chronicler of American social history and political culture, An Unfinished Season captures the postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon. In a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and go…
DescriptionOnce again, Nuala Anne McGrail amazes her faithful suitor Dermot Coyne with her psychic ability. This time, while paying respects to Dermot's grandparents in Chicago's Mount Carmel Cemetery, Nuala points to the grave of the famous bootlegger Jimmy "Sweet Rolls" Sullivan and tells Dermot that there is nobody buried in it. On the trail of the mystery surrounding the death of Al Capone's most famous rival, Dermot, as in his other adventures, finds that even historic mysteries can be too current for safety and that even discreet inquiries can result in potentially lethal answers.
DescriptionWhen an unlikely (and nameless) hero stumbles into the path of a serial killer, he has no choice but to defend himself, and ends up killing the killer. Shocked by his own strength, he then goes through the dead man's wallet and finds the damnedest thing…
