F News Amplified

F News Amplified

F Newsmagazine

Episodes 19
Avg. Duration 11m
Activity Moderate
Since Apr 2019
Latest Episode Mar 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Semi-Annually
Format
Episodic
Hosting
rss.libsyn.com

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About This Podcast

F News Amplified is the official podcast of SAIC's F News. Offering mostly-fun and unique stories and alleged "deep dives" on topics such as Politics, Brat Summer, Hot Dogs, Transsexuality, The Industrial Revolution and it's consequences, and Ghosts. This show is created by Gren Bee (MFA FVNMA) and is produced by an absolute CRACK team of legends such as Sid Gard, Alex Lee, and Sophie Goalson. Music by DrakeAndTheBeatles.

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Recent Episodes

Egg Horoscopes: An Exercise In Non-Didactic Anti-Divinity

Mar 26, 2025 18m

Episode three of Amplified: The neo noir episode about breakfast foods. Written and produced by Gren Bee, edited by Alex Lee Original song: 1-800-HURTNOW by Homewrecker…

S1E2 Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and Ghost F**king: A Valentine's Day Episode

Mar 03, 2025 50m

Episode two of F News Amplified! This week we celebrate Valentine's day with Frankie Lynne, comic artist, rock star, and lover to ghosts. A couple of them! That's right, we're talking about sex with…

S1E1 F News Amplified: 'Brat' For President

Oct 21, 2024 30m

Episode one of F News Amplified, the new podcast of F News. This episode covers musician Charli XCX's endorcement of Kamala Harris via X, and the deluge of memes that followed. Episode Transcript…

Architecture is Human

Jul 28, 2022 28m

In our one and only, extended cut episode of season 7, we talk with Architect Duo Dickenson and SAIC Professor Douglas Pancoast about the changing landscape of architecture in our society today. But…

S6E2 A peek inside Patient Info, the Ukrainian Village DIY Artist Space.

Dec 20, 2021 9m

In the second episode of this season, we take a peek inside Patient Info—a DIY artist space here in Chicago that retains the structure of its former purpose: a doctor's office. To get a better…

S6E1 Katherine Skwira-Brown's 'Porch Portal'—A Terrain Biennial Exhibition

Dec 17, 2021 10m

In this two-part season, we speak with SAIC students working beyond the studio, outside the institute—After hours. Our first episode follows BFA student Katherine Skwira-Brown as she guides us…

S5E2 S05E02 - Shawné Michaelain Holloway on sexuality and power structures in the arts

Jun 02, 2021 12m

After exploring the history of SAIC's first dormitory as a former Playboy mansion, we had a lot of questions about how to talk about sex and sex work in the institutional space. So, in this follow-up…

S05E01 - Why did SAIC students live in a former Playboy mansion?

Apr 18, 2021 10m

In this two-part season, we'll explore how conversations about sex, gender, and sex work have evolved at SAIC over the years. Our first episode recounts the story of SAIC's first residence hall — the…

S04E03 - Sami Ismat on the consequences of whistleblowing

Dec 20, 2020 11m

When the U.S. put sanctions on Syria in December of 2019, Sami Ismat (MFA 2020) questioned this sequence of events through a performance that brought participants into the mind of a whistleblower. In…

S4E2 S04E02 - Zhisheng Wu on destruction and preservation

Nov 29, 2020 6m

MFA first year Zhisheng Wu describes a project he worked on with residents of a shantytown in Southern China to preserve their memories after the demolition and reconstruction of their home. His…

S04E01 - Nicole Marroquín on the power of rebel youth

Nov 04, 2020 8m

Artist, researcher and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art Education professor Nicole Marroquín describes a critical moment of activism among Black and Latinx Chicago youth in the early 1970s…

S3E2 S03E02 - Two Lies & A Truth: Brontë Mansfield

Apr 11, 2020 13m

Brontë's stories: 1. At 14, her likeness landed on a Japanese billboard 2. While shopping for a tartan bag, met someone whose famous ancestor killed her famous ancestor 3. Got dumped at a military…

S3E1 S03E01 - Two Lies & A Truth: Anna Godfrey

Mar 18, 2020 12m

Anna's stories: 1. Introduced to Canada by a moose in heat 2. Followed on Twitter by Coco Peru, drag queen extraordinaire 3. Rescued from a sewer grate by power-drill-touting dad Which one is the…

S2E3 S02E03 - Making It: Laura Meyer

Jan 12, 2020 11m

Laura Meyer (MFA 2021, Writing) dreamed of being the first female in Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. After touring internationally under the stage name Cygne for more than a decade, she wearied of…

S2E2 S02E02 - Making It: Simon Anderson

Dec 02, 2019 6m

What do Diogenes, Frank Sinatra, and Phillip Corner have in common? Simon Anderson, associate professor in SAIC's Art History department, weaves them — and many others — into a wide-ranging challenge…

S2E1 S02E01 - Making It: Janet Desaulniers

Nov 03, 2019 8m

Janet Desaulniers, co-creator of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)'s MFA Writing program, received a contract to publish a short story collection at the ripe old age of 25. The book,…

S1E3 S01E03 - Tricia Park: Virtuosity vs. Voice

Jul 12, 2019 13m

By the time she was 16, Tricia Park was a professional violinist. Labeled and marketed as a child prodigy, teenage Tricia toured constantly, playing 70-80 concerts a year. But when, in her early 20s,…

S1E2 S01E02 - Jill Degroot: Fl(a)utists Anonymous

Jun 09, 2019 11m

Jill DeGroot (MA 2020, New Arts Journalism) wanted to be a marine — well, she wanted to play flute in the U.S. Marine Corps band. Early in her life, playing flute gave Jill sense of fulfillment,…

S1E1 S01E01 - Emma Collins: Law of the Jungle (Green)

Apr 21, 2019 10m

School of the Art Institute of Chicago undergrad Emma Collins (BFA 2019) recounts her experience balancing two kinds of studio work — art school and indie rock. Emma's schoolwork is a blend of…

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F News Amplified has published 19 episodes since April 2019, covering topics in Arts, Entertainment News.

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