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  11/11/12: Join us for Studs’ Place at Hideout

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  We’re excited to be part of this special event. Hope to see you there! The Chicago Television Project: Studs’ Place Pocket Guide to Hell presents Studs’ Place, a live performance of a NEW episode of the classic Studs Terkel television show, at the Hideout (1354 W Wabansia) on Sunday, November 11, 2012, at 7 PM. There is a $7-10 suggested donation.   In honor of the yearlong Studs Terkel centennial, Pocket Guide to Hell is producing a new episode of the […]

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  10/25/12: TVTV at Conversations at the Edge

  Blog, Events, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video

  October 25- TVTV: FOUR MORE YEARS Thursday, October 25, 6 p.m. | Gene Siskel Film Center | 164 N. State St. Allen Rucker and Tom Weinberg in person! Video collective TVTV defined the radical video documentary movement of the 1970s. Four More Years (1972) is an iconoclastic view of the American electoral process, captured through TVTV’s irreverent, candid coverage of Richard Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign and the Republican Convention in Miami. While network cameras focused on the orchestrated re-nomination of Richard […]

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  9/5/12: Be the first to see Studs’ Place episodes lost for 60 years

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  STUDS’ PLACE: LOST AND FOUND SEPTEMBER 5, 2012, 5:30-7:30pmFREE ADMISSION Free non-alcoholic beverages Birthday cheesecake courtesy of Eli’s Cheesecake Museum of Broadcast Communications360 N. State St., Chicago, ILguarantee your seats by rsvp’ing to info@mediaburn.org On September 5, you will have the first opportunity to see footage from four lost episodes of the seminal Chicago TV show Studs’ Place. Unseen for 60 years, these kinescope recordings of the live show were recently discovered in Terkel’s basement. This amazing find increases the […]

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  6/17/12, 2-8pm Chicago Cultural Center: Studs Terkel Film and Video Festival Part 3

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  STUDS TERKEL FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL PART 3 Don’t miss the final Studs Terkel Film and Video Festival event of June. We think it’s our best program yet! Come anytime throughout the day–we particularly recommend the 5:15 “Best of Studs” screening, which is a brand new compilation of unexpected Terkel footage from throughout his career that we guarantee you haven’t seen yet. We are grateful to Mike Dibb and John McGreevy for giving permission to screen their wonderful Terkel films […]

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  6/7/12: Tom Weinberg on Chicago Live

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  Tonight, join us at UP Comedy Club to see Tom Weinberg interviewed by the incomparable Rick Kogan on Chicago Live! Thursday, June 7 at 7PM. UP Comedy Club at Piper’s Alley 230 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60614 Tickets: $18 The taped show will be broadcast at 11pm Saturday night on WGN radio. Chicago Tribune presents Chicago’s movers and shakers each week on Chicago Live!, which is recorded in front of a live studio audience at 7 p.m. Thursdays at […]

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  6/8/12: Studs Terkel Fest Continues

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  Thanks to all who joined us at the Chicago History Museum on Saturday. We had a great time celebrating Studs with you. If you are interested in revisiting any of the videos you saw or sharing them with others, most are available on our website: 10AM At Home With Studs 11AM Sterling “Red” Quinlan interview 11:30AM Interviews with Interviewers 1:30PM Richard Hunt interview 2PM Chicago Tonight 9-1-1997 2:30PM Studs on a Soapbox (video coming soon) Join us on Friday for […]

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  6/2/12: Studs Terkel Film and Video Festival at CHM

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  STUDS TERKEL FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL PART 1 SATURDAY JUNE 2, 9:30AM-4:30PMChicago History Museum1601 N. Clark Street, Chicago, ILfree admission Join Media Burn on three dates in June as we present rarely seen treasures from our Studs Terkel collection to celebrate one of Chicago’s greatest cultural icons. Media Burn holds the largest collection of Terkel video in the world, about half of it donated by Terkel himself. The other half is the work of our founder, television producer and documentarian […]