Catch the Beat from Market Street Wednesday 5:30 - 6:00 pm on an occasional basis
Catch the Beat from Market Street will offer weekly commentary about important issues in CU, from city, county and state agendas to what's going on in the schools, at Parkland, and the University. We'll pay attention to the challenges of climate change, crime, homelessness and food insecurity. And on the lighter side, music, theatre, and the arts. Come Catch the Beat on Wednesdays at 5:30.
Shows are archived in mp3 format at 192kbps for fast downloads.
December 2024 shows
- December 04, 2024 - A conversation with Ryan Cordell, associate professor in the School of Information Sciences and the English Department, focusing on his bookmaking lab, Skeuomorph Press, which offers a working collection of letterpresses and hand type from the 19th century, as well as typewriters and more. Housed at the CUCFab Lab on the U of I campus, the press is open to classes, students, and community members who want to explore traditional technologies of printing and bookmaking.
November 2024 shows
- November 27, 2024 - An inside view of the services and workings of Elliott Counseling Group, in a conversation with Lainey Emmons, chief executive officer. This is fourth in a series of interviews with underwriters of WEFT, the much appreciated local businesses who keep us on air..
- November 20, 2024 - The third in a series of conversations with WEFT underwriters. Representing Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is Sam Smith, its Director of Civic Engagement and Social Practice, joined by Katie Shumway, Senior Director of Community Engagement at the U of I's School of Social Work. They describe some far-ranging collaborations between Krannert and the U of I, in projects designed to meet social needs from Champaign Urbana to similar work in Africa and around the world.
- November 06, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Andrew Russell of Minuteman Press, one of WEFT's underwriters, for an inside view of the workings of a printshop that supports and supplies many local non-profits.
October 2024 shows
- October 30, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Sarah Buckman, marketing manager of Common Ground Food Coop, a long-time underwriter of WEFT. Listen in for an overview of Common Ground's workings as a coop, and their behind-the-scenes services to the community.
- October 23, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Tobi Rice, master hair stylist at Ulta Beauty on North Prospect in Champaign, for an inside view of fall styles and a peak behind the scenes at make-up for special effects in movies.
- October 16, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Maria Jimenez of ISCU, the Immigrant Services of Champaign Urbana, about the support and services they offer to immigrants and asylum seekers in our community.
- October 09, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Rachel Rasmussen, Program Coordinator of Books to Prisoners, to hear about what it is, how it works, and how the community is involved.
- October 02, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Matthew Hurt, professor of English and Film Studies at Parkland College. It covers the history and resources of our community college, and the remarkable range of its offerings to the entire community, from daycare to classes in motorcycle safety, how to fly a plane, filmmaking, and the arts.
September 2024 shows
- September 18, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation about the wide scope of free legal services provided by Land of Lincoln, with Brett Kepley, lawyer and author of the weekly column Law Q&A in the News-Gazette.
- September 11, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation about Giertz Gallery at Parkland College, its upcoming exhibitions and its role as a teaching gallery, with director Lisa Costello.
- September 04, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation about the First Amendment Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Law, with Professor Lena Shapiro and 3rd year law student Afaaf Amatullah.
July 2024 shows
- July 24, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Benjamin Beaupre, Researcher on CU Local History, who has done significant work on the history of redlining, as well as the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Champaign/Urbana, and more.
- July 17, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Prof. Melissa Frydman and law student Steven Santamarina on their work providing free legal services through the Family Advocacy Clinic at the U of I's College of Law.
- July 10, 2024 - This week's show is a conversation with Cathy Bond, Nurse Practitioner with Palliative Medicine at Carle about the scope and practice of palliative care in Champaign, Urbana.
- July 03, 2024 - This week's show is "Invest in Community Services: community organizing around the City of Urbana Budget" a conversation with Miriam Larson, Jane McClintock, and Sana Saboowala.
May 2024 shows
- May 15, 2024 - This week's show features an interview with Cindy Martin, known on air as Cindiana Jones, an air shifter with KMUD community radio out of Garberville, California, and also BMIR, Burning Man Information Radio, a station that operates only for the ten days a year that the Burning Man festival is on in Black Rock City, Nevada.
- May 08, 2024 - This week's show features an interview with Robert White, special events manager at the Champaign Park District about plans for the Juneteenth celebration in Douglass Park on Saturday June 17 from 12 to 3.
- May 01, 2024 - This week's show features an interview with Yulanda Curtis, professor of Law, and Briley McVey, 3rd year law student at the University of Illinois, covering the services available and work of the Veterans Legal Clinic, a free resource for veterans and their immediate families.
November 2023 shows
- November 08, 2023 - (last show of pilot series) - This week's show features an interview with Riley Snyder who teaches Art at Decatur Altenative Education.
- November 01, 2023 - This week's show features an interview with Eric Bohlen, WEFT Station Manager, about the October 2023 Grass Roots Radio Conference.
October 2023 shows
- October 25, 2023 - This week's show features Sophie Becker, Communication and Engagement Manager at Eastern Illinois Food Bank with a comprehensive view of the realities of local food insecurity and what services the food bank provides.
- October 18, 2023 - This week's show features guest Kimberlie Kranich, who shares requirements for sex education in Illinois public schools along with alternative resources.
- October 11, 2023 - This week's show features an interview with Vicki Niswander, board chair of WEFT, about her years with WEFT and what it takes behind the scenes to keep a radio station running, and on her work and activism around issues of people with disabilities, expanding from her WEFT show Disability Beat.
- October 04, 2023 - This week's show features an interview with Jason Finkelman, WEFT air shifter, on his work in world music on campus and beyond, and his exhibit, Nikkeijin Illinois at Spurlock Museum about the Japanese American experience in Illinois.
September 2023 shows
- September 27, 2023 - This week's show features co-host and interviewee, Carol Spindel re: the local and national role of the American Civil Liberties Union, with focus on the SAFE-T Act and what you need to know to speak out about book bans.
- September 20, 2023 - This week's show features co-host Meadow Jones, interviews with Cedar King re: homelessness issues at CU@Home, and Olivia Bunting re: the new Folk School at Allerton, called The Farms.
- September 13, 2023 - Inaugural Show! Features interviews with Sandra Ahten about phone contract for the Champaign County Jail, and Eric Bohlen, new station manager, about his ideas for WEFT.
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