Dec 6, 2022
Patrick McCartney came of age in the Chicago improv scene in the early nineties where he worked with the likes of Del Close and toured with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in the Second City Touring Company. But it wasn’t long before his early exploration of drugs and alcohol blossomed into a full blown heroin problem and...
Nov 22, 2022
Larry Clarke is a writer, director and actor whom you have almost
certainly seen in one of the many, many roles he has played in
mainstream studio tv and films from "Law and Order" to Steven
Soderberg’s "The Laundromat." His story is interesting, in part,
because he stopped drinking about 5 years before he...
Nov 8, 2022
Hannah Sward grew up in a commune in Santa Cruz where her father was a prolific poet. Her parents split when she was young and a lot of her early journey was shaped by a quest to reunite with her younger sister in Los Angeles. That quest that took her first to Chicago where she quickly became a call girl to raise enough...
Oct 4, 2022
Sep 12, 2022
Patrick O'Neil's new book "Anarchy at The Circle K" - chronicling his life as a tour manager for punk rock bands like The Dead Kennedys - is out now. He is also a teacher and a substance abuse counselor. But before all that -- he was a bank robber -- responsible for a series of hold ups in the bay area with a gang of...