Better late than never, it’s our first anniversary show!

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This is Volume 5 of the The Frunchroom from April 21st, 2016 at O’Rourke’s Office on 111th and Western Avenue – the last time we’d record there before moving to Beverly Woods.

In order of appearance, our readers are:

Tim Baffoe
Sports columnist, high school teacher, former pizza driver, Ginger

Carrie Williams
Editor, Tribune Content Agency; Writer, Daily Southtown

Angel Simmons
Author, speaker, columnist, co-host of Do Not Submit – Englewood

Elaine Hegwood Bowen
Writer

Bill Savage
Editor, writer, Northwestern professor

Thanks, as always, to Tim Mata for audio production and editing.

You can again hear the sounds of a Blackhawks game in the background, especially during Elaine’s piece, which was also published in South Side Weekly here. Speaking of Elaine, here’s the gorgeous painting she refers to in that piece.

Read Tim’s posts at The Score here.

Carrie’s blog can be found here.

Here’s the open mic in Englewood that Angel hosts.

Bill’s piece was also published in Chicago magazine here. And here is episode 1 of The Frunchroom where Dmitry Samarov talks about Hardboiled Coffee.

Brought to you by your host Scott Smith – a resident of Beverly/Morgan Park – and The Beverly Area Arts Alliance.