Bill Marovitz joins Rick Kogan to talk about his efforts to have a street named for director William Friedkin, on Monday, June 10th at the corner of Ridge and Ardmore in front of Senn High School.

Peter McDowell and poet narrator Lasana D. Kazembe join Rick Kogan to talk about “Paul Robeson: Man of the People New Jazz Poetry Opera,” free on June 7th at Hamilton Park District.

Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow joins Rick Kogan to talk about the new special “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book, “Young at Heart: 101 Tales of Dynamic Aging,” that features her story “Would You Like to Dance?”

Hana Bleue Chaussette joins Rick Kogan to talk about her “Unsung Heroes of Uptown,” an exhibition of her portraits of notable Uptown residents–Studs Terkel and others–on dozens of bus shelters in Uptown and elsewhere around town for three months of public viewing and forever online.

Madeline Crispell, Curator of the Chicago Maritime Museum, joins Rick Kogan to talk about two new exhibits, the Lady Elgin disaster and Black sailor Bill Pinkney, both opening Friday night. For more information visit chicagomaritimemuseum.org.

Ben Tanzer joins Rick Kogan to talk about his latest book, “The Missing,” his other activities and pursuits, and his podcast, “This Podcast Will Change Your Life.”

Singer Libby York, joins Rick Kogan to talk about her new CD “Quartet: Swing Me a Story: The Art of the Lyric” and her appearance for two shows on May 9 at Winter’s Jazz Club, with her quartet and special guest, trombonist Russ Phillips.

Jack Craven, attorney, businessman, and executive coach, joins Rick Kogan to talk about his first book, “Aliveness Mindset: Lead and Live with More Passion, Purpose, and Joy.”

Rick Kogan is joined by Paula Froehle, co-founder with Steve Cohen of the Chicago Media Project, to talk about the 10th annual Doc10 film festival taking place May 2-5 at the Davis Theatre and Siskel Film Center. For more information, visit doc10.org.

Rick Kogan is joined by Bob Herguth of the Sun-Times and Abdon Pallasch, formerly of the Sun-Times and is currently the Director of Communications for Comptroller Susana Mendoza, to talk about their podcast called, “The Rebel Kind“