River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail about the contents of, and items related to, the November edition of the River Cities’ Reader, Issue N° 1027. With Hugh Grant’s wide-eyed visage adorning the cover, and a review by Mike Schulz of Heretic, the film HG made with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the film poster’s tagline, “Question Everything,” remains as pertinent as ever. They are certainly words to live by.
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail about the contents of, and items related to, the October edition of the River Cities’ Reader, Issue N° 1026. The issue’s tagline, “Ballets and Ballots,” is an apt summation, and you can get more of the former — the aht, the cultchuh, the cine, the théâtre, the musique, the danse — at the Reader Events Calendar. It truly is the best way to know what’s going on in the QCA. Continue reading Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the October Edition of River Cities’ Reader→
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail about the contents of the August edition of the River Cities’ Reader. With Floatzilla and Alternating Currents both wound down (the interview took place on 16 August), it’s time again to feed your heads the old-fashioned way — by reading stuff. Preferably stuff with heft. Stuff for discerning eyeballs. Stuff that reminds you of your rights and responsibilities as a citizen.
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail about skateboarding down by the HESCO barriers (good times), the absence of Buried Stories (temporary), and whether TM will make good on an alleged promise and get a tattoo of Julian Assange on his back (will get back to you on that one).
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD Morning Show host Pat Jones, who’s taken over the spot from GM Aaron Dail, re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1021. These include the Reader‘s entries for its Spring 2024 Photo Contest (with the winning entry, Kevin Richard Schafer’s “Secret,” as well as the image you see before you) and articles by Kathleen McCarthy (Scott County Appointments to Elected Offices Keep Records Secret and Not Transparent), Rochelle Arnold (Carbon Wolves Pause, For Now), and Ezra Sidran PhD (What We Know Now a Year After the 324 Main Street Disaster). Transparency is the issue’s theme, in particular the QCA’s perennial observance of it in the breach. Forthcoming regional events include the May 28 show by Chicago, a band that’s been together for nearly sixty years and would likely continue for another sixty, were humans not such frail animals, vulnerable at last to the ravages of age. (Jones mentions how his brother would break out the latest Chicago album every time he broke up with his high-school girlfriend — leaving one to ask, How many girlfriends did he have, really? Because Chicago had an album for every year of the Seventies and every other year of the Eighties. That seems to be the window, anyway.) McGreevy also boldfaces Bruce Walters’s Buried Stories: Louie Bellson (1924-2009) as a recommended feature, as local history shot through the lens of gravesites retains a certain evergreen fascination. Walters, who has contributed essays and illustrations for many years, will submit his final work for the Reader, as he is at work on a book — props, Bruce, and thanks for the memories. . .
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail and Pat Jones, Sancho Panza to Dail’s Don Quixote, re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1019. Joining the two for half of the discussion is Li Arellano, the former mayor of Dixon, Illinois, and one of three Republicans vying for the open 37th District state Senate seat at present. (The other candidates are Chris Bishop, former Dixon teacher and a member of the Dixon City Council, and Tim Yager, a member of both the Henry County Board and the Henry County Farm Bureau.) McGreevy solicits Arellano’s opinion re the recent state efforts to push Donald Trump off their ballots — since decided by the Supreme Court to be the provenance of Congress, not the states — and both question the legality of such efforts, given that (to date) Trump hasn’t been convicted of any federal offense that would mandate such pre-emptive actions.
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1018. The first one-and-a-half minutes that you don’t get to hear concerns Dail’s admiration of Bruce Walters’s Buried Stories profile on Helen Van Dale for the latest issue:
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail and his Sancho Panza, Gary, re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1014. The October Reader cover was the occasion for McGreevy to break out his best Transylvanian accent in an effort to make some legitimately scary material a little more, uh, palatable. To whit: Continue reading Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the October Edition of River Cities’ Reader→
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy and WQUD GM Aaron Dail (who brought with him his amigo Gary, a mainstay on his radio show) talk with Jason Bermas, a documentarian (and occasional Reader contributor), about an assortment of subjects, such as Elon Musk not being quite the maverick-rockstar businessman as he’s made himself out; Area 51 being the US military’s first black site (having nothing to do with aliens — sorry, kids); Black Rock and the implications of its BCI (Brain Computer Interface) chips — which is only the latest of that private firm’s transgressions upon the public sphere; Bermas’s work on the Loose Change09/11 documentaries [Loose Change: First Edition (2005), Loose Change: Second Edition Recut (2006), Loose Change: Final Cut (2007), and Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009)] and the cast of characters with whom he’s dealt in providing research for them; and the annual Bilderberg Meeting, an under-the-radar forum established in 1954 and chaired by such illustrious statesmen as Henry Kissinger (who was at the first one and attended the most recent at age 100).
The ‘cast kicks in in media res, as the record button wasn’t pushed until after several minutes in. Just so you know.
