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News at 6 on WNUR News – April 18, 2022 The Table, Percy Jackson, Bird Collisions WNUR News broadcasts live at 6 pm CST on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays on WNUR 89.3 FM
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Speaker 0 00:00:00 Live from w N U R news. I'm Jon and Jennifer Kim. You're listening to the six o'clock news on w N U R 89.3 FM slash HD one Evanston Chicago it's Monday, April 18th, 2022. Tonight on w N U R news efforts to revitalize Evanston's late night foods. The new age appropriate lightning, th the danger of Northwestern surprised architecture for migratory birds, and a new w N U R segment the B list. Those stories coming up tonight on w N U R news at six. Thanks for tuning in any Northwestern student nos, the problem it's 10:00 PM. You're hungry and there's nothing open downtown. What is one to do? Reporter JackieO provides one solution
Speaker 1 00:00:56 Has a food problem in particular elite night food problem. Northwestern university is right next door and the students are hungry for food 24 7, but the COVID 19 pandemic for some of the last remaining late night refuges to close down, which leaves many students lacking options. When they're craving a midnight snack, I say Eton as a whole is not like a nightlife town and their restaurants close very early. Sometimes like even before, like I normally dinner, if
Speaker 2 00:01:22 You are hungry at all after 8:00 PM and Evanson, like you're kind of out of luck.
Speaker 3 00:01:28 Like there's no like late night snack spots at two in the morning. And I'm very sad about that.
Speaker 4 00:01:34 It's kind of just Uber eats wherever you can find a deal.
Speaker 5 00:01:37 Um, I would say I don't even really think about getting late night food anymore, just cuz I know there's no options. And if there are options it's ridiculously expensive
Speaker 6 00:01:45 And I don't know, I can kind of expected more from a college town. I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 1 00:01:50 But one student run restaurant is helping change that problem. They're called the table and they're open for delivery from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They're trying to cater to the Northwestern population that most Evanson restaurants aren't, but they're still relatively unknown among the student body. So I went down to their kitchen to see what it's about.
Speaker 7 00:02:10 My name is, uh, Joshua bloom. Um, I'm currently a junior at Northwestern university.
Speaker 1 00:02:16 That's Josh bloom. He didn't start the table, but he's the mastermind behind their current operation.
Speaker 7 00:02:21 I'm the managing director. So I oversee the operations for the table. I help develop the menu, run the meetings. I cook the food. I do it all basically. Um, but I have a great team to support me as well.
Speaker 1 00:02:31 The table started in 2017 serving breakfast food early in the morning to give students on campus, another breakfast option. But as the COVID pandemic hit the table switched its business model from serving breakfast to focusing on the late night scene from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM.
Speaker 7 00:02:46 I think we're, we're all insomniac here. So it's not, this is like, this is our regular hours. This is like, like, uh, this is like 7:00 PM for us.
Speaker 1 00:02:54 Josh actually doesn't like the business model they're using now and hopes to offer more hours and service in the future. But he does agree that Evanston's late night food scene has been affected by the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 7 00:03:04 We're the only people in the market basically right now. So we're the only people doing late night delivery at the hours. Um, a lot of the students really love, love the food, um, and, and love the fact that we're like solving this problem that has been around for age.
Speaker 1 00:03:19 But since the table is an option for students, I did want to know, is the food actually good? What's on the menu.
Speaker 7 00:03:26 So I wanted something that was like late night friendly, right? Greasy food, like Mac and cheese burgers, fries, those kinds of things. Um, I feel like a lot of those foods are like pretty hard to elevate. Like pizza is like, I don't know, pizzas. Pizza's pizza. You can get it from dominoes. It's hard to make that really good. Um, burgers are just like logistically challenging. Um, so I feel like fried chicken was like the best thing that we could make that was like very easy to execute, but like could pack in a lot of flavor.
Speaker 1 00:03:51 I came in at a pretty slow time in the night. So Josh offered to whip me up a chicken and waffle sandwich, which I wasn't gonna turn down. It did get slightly delayed though.
Speaker 7 00:04:01 I dunno. I, I feel like people, um, something they don't initially realize from the tables, like the thought and care that we like put into, oh, order in AP chicken nuggets, cookies and cream milkshake. You got the milkshake, man. Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1 00:04:14 As we were finishing up the interview, a new order came in, so Josh went to go deal with that before he made me and my sandwich. But eventually it got made.
Speaker 8 00:04:22 Oh wait, no, no, hold it up.
Speaker 9 00:04:23 Oh, the mic. Yeah. Crunch. Oh, that's true. Excellent point. All right. Hmm. Okay. I really go.
Speaker 1 00:04:35 Yeah, that's my bad on the crunch. I took a bad bite, uh, but that did not change how I felt about the sandwich. It was definitely worth coming. If you're interested in ordering from the table, they're open for delivery from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, you can order through GrubHub or DoorDash at the moment for w N R news on Jack. IZO
Speaker 0 00:05:01 Welcome back to w N U R news. It's 17:00 PM central time moving on to arts and entertainment. Exciting news. Last week at the first cast member of the new Percy Jackson lightning thief Disney plus series was announced, but will the show live up to fan expectations or at least be better than the movie? Jordan mangy has more
Speaker 10 00:05:28 This over Dan me gods. I am thrilled to be the first to tell you that Percy Jackson and the Olympians is really truly, and for sure, coming to your screens, the smart folks at Disney plus have given us the green light
Speaker 11 00:05:46 Didn't we already get a Percy Jackson live action movie, and wasn't it kind of bad ad, never fear. Rick rein is giving his beloved kids book series a second, go at a screen adaptation this time in a series format
Speaker 12 00:05:59 On the monsters, on the monsters, bring on the real
Speaker 11 00:06:06 Percy Jackson in the Olympians is a five book series about modern day Demi gods. That is the child of a Greek God. And imortal the protagonist. Percy is a problem child who keeps getting out of school when Greek mythological monsters attack him on a class trip. The 12 year old's life changes. He is taken away to camp, half blood, a summer camp for Demi God kids to learn about their parents and hone their talents. Percy finds out he is the son of Passid the Greek God of the sea, and must go on a quest to rescue his mom from the underworld and catch whoever stole Zeus's master lightning bolt. Along with Annabeth a brilliant strategically minded daughter of Athena and Grover a Sader that's a half boy, half goat who is tasked with protecting them. Percy completes the quest fighting monsters along the way, Percy Jackson and the lightning thief, which soon became five books. Plus a spinoff series is often seen as the next generation's Harry Potter. The first book was released in 2005. It sparked tons of interest in Greek and Roman mythology and is known for its interpretation of ADHD as a sign of battlefield superpowers and dyslexia being a side effect of the Demi God ability to read ancient Greek, the series even sparked real life camp, half blood summer camps, and a short lived Broadway musical in the late S when the book got a movie deal, young readers were over the moon. When it premiered in 2010, it bombed
Speaker 14 00:07:30 Time has run out maybe a no song of,
Speaker 15 00:07:38 Or Jackson and the Olympians, the lightning thief president's day, 2010,
Speaker 11 00:07:44 The movie, which only went on to have a sequel instead of a whole five movie arc, just didn't meet fan expectations. The reconfigured plot was confusing to readers who already knew how the rest of the series should progress. The film aged Percy up from 12 to 16, good Lerman who played Percy was 18 at the time of filming his co-stars Alex Daario and Brandon T. Jackson who played Anna, Beth and Grover were 24 and 26. Kids felt cheated. Common sense media, a site that publishes kids reviews of kids media set it all averaging three out of five stars, reviewers ages eight to he found the movie quote, horrible, disappointing, so bad that it's funny and just plain weird, but no one hated the movie more than Rick Ry and himself in a now deleted Twitter thread. He said, he's never even seen the movies. Reading the scripts alone was too upsetting. He said
Speaker 16 00:08:37 To you guys, it's a couple hours entertainment, Tim, me it's my life's work going through a meek grinder when I pleaded with them not to do it. So yeah, but it's fine. All fine. We're gonna fix it soon.
Speaker 11 00:08:48 And the first step to that of course is finding a new age appropriate. Percy. It seems wired and learned his lesson from the first screen adaptation and said he will be heavily involved in the new series. Last week, there was a major announcement. Walker Scobel will play the Titla role wire. In statement, he said Scobel is a super fan of the series and already owned a cam half blood shirt. He's known for his recent Netflix debut in the Adam project. And he is just 13. Already. Fans are jumping at the news on Twitter. People who grew up reading the books as they came out are now in their early twenties. There are calls to start rereading the books. Now in preparation for the show's projected 2023 release, there is also much speculation over the casting for the other two main characters, Anna Beth, and Grover. Some fans are hoping that Annabeth in particular. We played by an actor of color, the series lacks explicitly non-white main characters and many people who read the series as kids didn't feel seen in the books and movie adaptation for now, we'll just have to wait and hope the Doover at the screen will meet super fan expectations
Speaker 11 00:09:53 For w N U R I'm George Manji. Rick reins tweet was read by Rick Manji. The outro music is bring on the monsters from the, the lightning thief cast album.
Speaker 18 00:10:03 Be back next summer. I'll be back next summer
Speaker 0 00:10:10 Kellogg, the place to finds beautiful lake views, LUS business bros and dead birds. Helen Bradshaw speaks with the Chicago bird collision monitors to learn more.
Speaker 11 00:10:28 If you're a wood duck, migrating hundreds of miles might be something you're used to, but you still probably wanna take a break every once in a while. And the crystal blue banks of lake Michigan might seem like the perfect place to do just that that is is until you mistake a windows reflection for the actual lake, hit the window, full speed and then die. This is the case for mini Chicago and Evanston resident and migratory birds. This past weekend, over a hundred million birds were predicted to be migrating at night in the United States and over all of spring migration for, in March to June billions of birds migrated across north America. And the course of migration are just flying around over 600 million birds die in the us each year from collisions. Chicago was the worst ranked city for bird collisions in the entire nation.
Speaker 19 00:11:16 Well, I'd always heard that there were these instances of people reporting birds that were hitting windows in downtown Chicago, and it was, and it seemed like this dire problem that nobody really had a solution for. And maybe a lot of people just considered it collateral damage, and that, you know, what are you gonna do about this?
Speaker 11 00:11:32 That's Annette prince director of the Chicago bird collision monitors
Speaker 19 00:11:36 Really I'm interested in it because, uh, I think birds are, are wonderful. And I'm very dismayed that when they travel through our, of there in so much danger, and even though I can't, uh, protect some of the habitat loss that they're experiencing, it's, it's just as vital that during their passages between north and south, we give them safe, safe passages. We can do things that improve their ability to, to survive. What is a marathon, uh, an amazing journey that they make every year.
Speaker 11 00:12:03 Chicago is known for its beautiful architecture, just walked by the Chicago river and listened to an architecture tour, host telling dozens of people on their boat. But many buildings in Chicago have massive windows. These may look appealing to us, but especially when combined with bright lighting at night and their location along migratory paths, they can be detrimental to birds, but the bird deaths don't stop in Chicago on Northwestern's campus. Several buildings are particularly problematic for birds
Speaker 19 00:12:30 At, at one point back in, in 2017, P people really made a push about the fact that, you know, they'd been asking for years for Northwestern to do something and, and reporting the casualties. And there was a very receptive person who was in community relations at Northwestern at that point, who was really open to retrofiting. One of the buildings on campus, which is the Francis Sur building. And, uh, after retrofitting that it opened the opportunities to both show how by monitoring that building after they added the window film, how it was a significant decrease we had in bird strikes. If you had to pick the top three buildings that we are the most concerned about, it would be, uh, the Kellogg global hub, the Ryan athletic center, and the mud library,
Speaker 11 00:13:11 Since these buildings are already built, are used frequently in promotional material. It seems unlikely that they could be altered substantially for the sake of birds, but there are still many precautions that can be, and have been put in place to try to mitigate the illusionistic effects of windows and lights.
Speaker 19 00:13:27 Uh, the Kellogg global hub, even though they have done some mitigation on that building, they added window film onto the east side of it, which is the place where birds are both seeing a, a deadly reflection or a transparency in that glass of a whole, you know, green space that is, um, adjacent to the east side of that building. And by adding the retrofiting, the, the number of strikes on that side has been maybe cut in half, but still, you know, from a hundred birds kill. Now it's 50 still, still, you know, it's a billing that has so much glass. There's just so many areas that now that it's already up, trying to find ways to cover or protect or change all that glass is a, is a, is a very challenging task.
Speaker 11 00:14:10 Still, there are more precautions that could be taken, including with lighting.
Speaker 19 00:14:14 Lighting can be very dangerous. And we have seen that the buildings that leave the shades up and lights on, uh, have an increased number of bird strikes, the, the Ryan athletic center, uh, which kind of comes in number three, that if they leave their lighting on it, it's almost like a lighthouse beacon that can be very dangerous. As far as drawing birds in to begin with light seems to attract birds from their migratory path. They're already navigating and orienting themselves by the stars in the moon. They use light in different ways to, um, to find their way when they're, when they're flying. We've seen them be drawn miles away from where they were normally flying to come towards that light in a disoriented way. That then brings in the opportunity or the, the misfortune to come to encounter the glass that's in that building.
Speaker 11 00:14:58 According to print, even with protection in place. And the improvements that have been observed birds of all sizes are still in danger from these architectural trends.
Speaker 19 00:15:08 We've really seen everything, including endangered species. We had a least bitter that hit, uh, the Kellogg building. I think it was last year. The, the lakefront campus is such an inviting place. It's, it's, it's a, it's a nice habitat. It's a green space that birds that have been flying all night, which is what these, the majority of these migratory birds are doing is yeah, they're coming off of a path that was following the lakefront and a campus like Northwestern, uh, looks inviting. It's almost an obligation. If you have buildings next to the, this sort of very inviting habitat to try to do something, to, to make sure that the birds that encounter them, aren't gonna face an additional danger. And when I, I see the fact that someone either has rescued something and brought it to me, or, or they've seen me rescuing something and they, they get an appreciation for how important this issue is and how, um, what, what a big difference.
Speaker 19 00:15:55 Some simple things like turning, uh, turning some lights out, drawing. Some drapes, seeing PE seeing that register for people is, is, is meaningful to me. If a building was killing 10 people a year, we'd be making sure that building changed its ways. Uh, we might have to close that building down. We, that we just wouldn't be acceptable, but some buildings killing a hundreds of thousands of birds, uh, is either looked at as collateral damage or something. That is what are you gonna do about it? Uh, and the fact that we have ways to do something about it, we have the power to, to change that it's not a, a hopeless or confusing problem because in some way, some, some of the environmental issues in this world are very complex. And it's really hard to, to know all the wait, all the things we have to do to fix them. And we, we, we have a lot of good strategies for, for fixing the buildings.
Speaker 11 00:16:38 If you do find an injured bird, you can put the bird into a paper bag or for larger birds, wait with them. While calling the Chicago bird collision monitors hotline at 7 7 3 9 8 8 1 8 6 7.
Speaker 19 00:16:50 Do you really should care that that our, it could crash if these birds are no longer part of, of a vital chain of life that controls insects, POS plants, um, that, that we rely on, whether we're aware of or fond of birds at all, they they're so critical to, to us surviving and going on need to protect these birds for their sake and for our own sake
Speaker 11 00:17:13 For w our news I'm Helen Bradshaw,
Speaker 0 00:17:20 W N U R news excited debut our new Monday short segment. It's the B list Roundup of pop culture highlights from the previous week. Here's Allison rock with more
Speaker 11 00:17:33 Welcome to the B your weekly Roundup of celebrity mess and pop culture this week, sports Coachella weekend one, and the Rihanna rumors put to rest first up in celebrity news, it seems ASAP is in the clear last Thursday night, user Lewis via Roma tweeted that rapper ASAP Rocky had cheated on Rihanna. The alleged infidelity took place during Paris fashion week and happened with shoe designer, Mina MOWA. But the next day, Friday, the Twitter user apologized and recanted their statement. And MOWA condemned the rumors herself in an Instagram story last weekend in music Coachella weekend, one kicked off last weekend. Harry styles, Billy Eilish, the weekend and Swedish house mafia, headline surprises, abounded singers, Megan, the stallion and Doja cat performed unreleased songs, rap group Brock Hampton performed for the almost last time announcing a final album and hyper pop duo. 100 Gex set was cut by crew members.
Speaker 11 00:18:30 The festival continues next weekend in sports. The NBA playins wrapped up this weekend. Highlights included a crazy Boston Celtics buzzer beater, clenching a win over the Brooklyn nets on Sunday. The tournament now begins in earnest tonight. The Toronto Raptors are set to play the Philadelphia 76 ERs at 6:30 PM central standard time. They'll be followed by the Utah jazz and Dallas Mavericks at seven 30 and the Denver nuggets and golden state warriors at nine o'clock and the Boston marathon returned this morning for the first time since 2019 Kenyan runner, Evan Chabe won the men's race finishing with two hours, six minutes and 51 seconds. American did I know Roman shook won the men's wheelchair title at one hour 26 minutes, 58 seconds for women's Kenyan runner Perez GY church chair finished in two hours, 21 minutes. And one second while Manuel SHA of Switzerland won the women's wheelchair race in one hour 41 minutes and eight seconds. That's all for the B list this week. Check in next Monday to hear about what happens this week in pop culture for w news I'm Allison RO
Speaker 0 00:19:40 Next, a quick weather and news update. Welcome back to w N news. It's 6:32 PM central time. A look at the weather for tonight. It's currently 37 degrees in Evan than with a 30% chance of rain and overcast skies overnight tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 48 degrees and low of 39 degrees on Wednesday. You can expect windy weather with slight rainy showers in the afternoon. That's all for w N U R news at 6:00 PM. For more news updates and reports follow on Twitter at w N U R news. You can listen to these and other stories of the day on our website, w NNU r.news that's w nr.news. Find us on apple podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Our producer today is Catherine OUM, and our reporters are Jack IZO, Jordan and Manji and Helen Bradshaw from all of us here at w N U R news. I'm Jon and Jennifer Kim. Thanks for listening. Catch our next newscast on Wednesday, April 20th at 6:00 PM. Now back to scheduled programming.
