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I Love Y’all

July 12, 2020History, Music, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

Scholars debate the origins of the term y’all. It’s usage typically but not always marks one as from the South.

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The Point

July 5, 2020Chicago, History, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

In 1980s Chicago, Hyde Park’s Promontory Point had a semblance of racial integration, but most of the city was marked by a history of severe segregation imposed by violence and racist institutions.

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At Jason’s Radio Show

June 28, 2020Chicago, History, Music, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

The University of Chicago’s first radio station began broadcasting to Burton Judson Courts in 1945. In 1951 they extended to the entire campus as WUCB, in 1968 moved to the FM dial as WHPK and in 1985 increased their power from 10 to 100 watts.

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In Minnesota

June 21, 2020Chicago, History, Minnesota, NYCPaul Mason Fotsch

In the late 80s, the artist Garry Hayes brought a couple of lucky kids to the happiest place on earth: a legendary Minneapolis bar called the Gay 90s.

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He is mine

June 14, 2020Chicago, History, podcasts, Politics, ReligionPaul Mason Fotsch

In the Spring of 1989, a fatwa by the Iranian Leader called for the killing of Salman Rushdie. During his first few months in hiding, he moved dozens of times. Could one of these hideouts have been my studio apartment in Hyde Park?

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