Category Archives: Arts

6 Days / 49 Films

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Richard Guzman

FILM CENTRAL Second Annual Fall Festival, Sept. 16-21, presents 49 films from 6 states and 16 countries. For the second year in a row North Central College will be one of the four sites of the Fifth Annual Naperville Independent … Continue reading →

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Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Richard Guzman

Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness.       Awkward lyricism       under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading →

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WBEZ interviews Richard Guzman about Black Writing from Chicago

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Richard Guzman

In 2006 shortly after the release of my book Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? WBEZ, Chicago, 91.5 FM—the nation’s largest Public Radio station—called to set up an interview.  Steve Edwards did his typically fine intro and … Continue reading →

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