The Grid - Arkansas Red and His Listeners
Arkansas Red DJs the "The Blues Excursion" every Saturday night on WHPK, Hyde Park's community and student radio station. The 5-hour show will turn 30 years old in 2015. The station's best-known personality, Arkansas converses live with his devoted audience from across the South side and the USA.
Read more about "Arkansas Red's House Party" from the Chicago Tribune -
articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-05-30/features/9305300445_1_weekly-blues-conversational-gospel. Tune in to WHPK Saturday nights from 7pm-midnight at 88.5fm, or streaming on whpk.org.
This video is part of a series profiling Chicago businesses, subcultures, and landscapes. These short, lyrical documentaries aspire to be art cinema, ethnographies, and experiments in form.
Brian Ashby and Ben Kolak''s directorial debut, Scrappers - scrappersmovie.com, made Roger Ebert's list of top documentaries for 2010. They went on to produce and edit the documentary feature Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists - pentimentiproductions.org/projects/hairy-who, and create the web series Central Standard: On Education for WTTW11 and PBS Digital Studios - / centralstandardwttw . Hannie Lee is a senior at Northwestern University, majoring in Radio/Television/Film. Graphic Designer Akemi Hong is principal of Studio Akemi - studioakemi.com, and an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Grid is funded in part by the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation's Digital Media Production Fund.