Sasha-Ann Simons
Host, Reset at WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL)
host of @WBEZReset, middays on NPR Chicago • producer • speaker • island gyal • proud immigrant • #girlmom • penmanship award winner in 1988✨
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2 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Sasha-Ann Simons
Sorry, there was an error registering your email. Get up to speed with the conversations Chicago is having. Please check your inbox for your confirmation. With this yo-yo weather, what do your gardens need? Reset gets more info from an expert and takes listeners’ questions.
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2 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Sasha-Ann Simons
Look out! Here comes Spider-Man, along with his villains and other well-known Spider-Verse characters to a new immersive exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. It brings together a collection of artifacts, iconic moments from every era, and wall-to-wall artwork from Spider-Man’s first comic book appearance in 1962. Reset learns more about the superhero’s evolution and what the exhibition offers. GUEST: Voula Saridakis, head curator, Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
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2 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Dennis Rodkin |Sasha-Ann Simons
Since 1919, a colossus has stood at 136th Street and Western Avenue in south suburban Blue Island, but it was only used for its original purpose — canning the produce grown in Illinois farm fields — for the first 49 years. To get an idea how big it is at 515,000 square feet, imagine a classic Chicago bungalow, which is about 1,500 square feet. Now imagine a pile of 343 bungalows, all vacant, just a few blocks south of downtown Blue Island.
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3 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Sasha-Ann Simons
Ocean Vuong is perhaps best-known for his 2019 novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and deeply intimate poetry collections such as Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) and Time Is a Mother (2022). In Vuong’s second novel The Emperor of Gladness, the Vietnamese-American masterfully tells the story of friendship and the human ability to act with kindness toward others even when you’re filled with hopelessness.
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1 month ago |
wbez.org | Sasha-Ann Simons
Benny is a loner whose identity revolves around his wife and children. Gil is a free spirit who longs to fulfill his potential. When the two strangers meet, they form an instant, deep bond. But slowly cracks start to form and their fresh bromance begins to crumble. That’s the premise of a new Chicago Shakespeare Theater play called “Hymn.” It’s an entertaining journey with old school music and elements of Black male friendship woven throughout the narrative.
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