Cultural Connections

Cultural Connections: Eat, Play, Love Our Neighborhoods

A new free e-book provides a fresh perspective on the city's dozens of neighborhoods, from Bronzeville to Hegewisch. We talk with author Alan Solomon about Explore Chicago: Eat, Play, Love Our Neighborhoods.

• Download Eat, Play, Love Our Neighborhoods

Ask Geoffrey

Ask Geoffrey

A 1955 building now stands in the middle of a huge construction site in Lincoln Park. We find out why people are taking such care to protect it in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

• Friends of the Gamelan website
• Lincoln Park 2520
• Chicago Architecture Blog -- Cabrini Chapel
• Chicago Police officer mentioned: Jack Muller; The title of his autobiography is I, Pig: Or, How the World's Most Famous Cop, Me, is Fighting City Hall

Arts & Entertainment

Harp-Making

Ash-har Quraishi takes an inside look at the fine art of harp-making in Chicago.

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Arts & Entertainment

Tony and Janina's American Wedding

A Chicago-area Polish family is torn apart when the wife is deported with her six-year-old son. We talk with the husband and the director of a new documentary about the family, airing tonight on WTTW.

• Tony and Janina's American Wedding

Politics

News Analysis: Carol Moseley Braun

She was the first African American woman in the U.S. Senate and now she wants to be the first African American woman Mayor of Chicago. Carol Moseley Braun is here to tell us why she's come out of political retirement to vie for the position of Mayor Daley's replacement.

Business

National Deficit

A commission appointed by President Obama recommends radical changes to bridge the nation's budget gap. We speak with one of the commission members, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

Politics

Michelle Obama Handshake Controversy

A seemingly innocuous handshake has set off a worldwide controversy. We learn why an Indonesian minister -- who is Muslim -- is blaming Michelle Obama for the misstep.

• How to Be a Perfect Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies

Arts & Entertainment

Richard Gray Collection

From Pablo Picasso to Old Masters and contemporary works -- seven centuries of art from a celebrated private collection go on public view at the Art Institute. We take a look inside the exhibit.

• Find out more about the Gray Collection

Politics

Fresh Medicine

Fresh Medicine
Did the Health reform bill alleviate the nation's health care crisis? One prominent politician says it made an obsolete system even worse. We talk to the Governor of Tennessee, the author of the new book Fresh Medicine: How to Fix, Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System.

Politics

Hacking on Public Wi-Fi

A new, free computer program can turn the most inexperienced computer user into a computer hacker, and the hacking is taking place at public wi-fi sites.

• Websites that Firesheep can intercept: Amazon.com, Basecamp, Bit.ly, Cisco, CNET, Dropbox, Enom, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, GitHub, Google, Gowalla, Hacker News, Harvest, Windows Live,, New York Times, Pivotal Tracker, ToorCon: San Diego, Slicehost Manager, Tumblr.com, Twitter, Wordpress, Yahoo, Yelp
• "How to protect against Firesheep attacks"--Computerworld