The Permanent Record:
Nightlife's Best Writings
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Alas, Nightlife does not have the server space or time to permanently archive every weekly online issue. But little by little, Nightlife will try to add some of its best work to this section. Enjoy!
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from Nightlife, early 1990s
Leonard Peltier:
The Nightlife Interview
When Micheal Apted's documentary, Incident at Oglala, opened in Carbondale, then-Nightlife writer Margaret Howard interviewed the film's subject, American Indian Movement leader and political prisoner Leonard Peltier, as well as Peltier's attorney, William Kunstler.
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| from Nightlife, 08/23/96
Former SIU Student Darryl Jones:
The Nightlife Interview
Darryl Jones, a former SIU music student, is now a session bassist who played with Miles Davis's and Sting's 1980s and 1990s bands. Lately he's been best known as Bill Wyman's unofficial replacement in the Rolling Stones. Read his reminescences about his alma mater and about his experiences with some of the world's greatest musicians in this exculsive interview.
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from Nightlife, 08/20/98; 07/01/04, and 07/29/04
Jason Ringenberg:
The Nightlife Interview
Joe Swank and Bryan Miller talk with the Jason and the Scorchers' frontman, an SIU alum, insurgent Americana forefather, and cowpunk creator.
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from Nightlife 04/11/02
The city of Carbondale insists that its encroachment ordinance, implemented to stop late-night partiers from blocking the Strip, is constitutional. Critics call it a vague, overbroad restriction on the First Amendment freedom to peaceably assembly. SIU alum and Chicago attorney Gary L. Goldblatt takes a look at the ordinance and a small sample of potentially pertinent case law, with a little help from Chris Wissmann, and an epilogue.
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from Nightlife's 08/22/02, 08/29/02, 09/05/02, and 08/21/03 issues:
The Carbondale Writers’ Colony?
Bryan Miller interviews and reviews some of SIU's best authors, past and present, including 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo and 2000 Pulitzer Prize runnerup Rodney Jones. Also, an archival article from the early 1990s in which Margaret Howard interviews SIU alum Charles Johnson.
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from Nightlife 09/19/02
Ramsey Clark on Iraq and Romas: An Exclusive Nightlife Interview
When former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark came to deliver the keynote address at an SIU Public Policy Institute symposium on the problems afflicting the Roma people, Nightlife's Sue Basko obtained an exclusive interview with Clark. With an introduction by Michael G. Roach.
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from Nightlife 05/01/03
Jello Biafra: An Exclusive Nightlife Interview
Jello Biafra established independent rock as a viable commerial and social force, both as the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys and as owner of Alternative Tentacles Records. Along the way, he fought landmark battles against Tipper Gore's censorship campaigns. When Biafra came to speak at SIU in May 2003, Nightlife's Roger Trexler obtained the only exclusive interview among Southern Illinois media. Here's the complete transcript.
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from Nightlife 08/14/03
Bob Odenkirk: An Exclusive Nightlife Interview
Bob Odenkirk, Emmy Award-winning writer for Saturday Night Live, acclaimed star of HBO's Mr. Show, and frequent guest star on Friends, is an SIU alum. In a wide-ranging interview with Nightlife's Bryan Miller, Odenkirk discusses his work and how Carbondale contributed to his life.
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from Nightlife 08/21/03
A Fuller Worth: From Eyesore to Folklore
R. Buckminster Fuller (1969 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, architect and inventer of the dymaxion house, mathematician, popularizer of the geodesic dome, and the philosopher who developed the concept of synergy) is SIU's best-known educator. Leah Stone profiles the RBF Dome Not for Profit, which was established to restore the geodesic dome in Carbondale in which Fuller lived, not to mention his Carbondale legacy. A slightly revised version of the one that appeared in our print edition.
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from Nightlife 09/25/03
Carol Channing: A Conversation with an American Legend
Broadway's greatest star came through Carbondale to perform a benefit for the SIU Public Policy Institute. Nightlife theater correspondant Jeff Hale got the opportunity to talk with her by phone in this exclusive interview. A slightly expanded version of the one that appeared in our print edition.
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from Nightlife 10/09/03
Walter Cronkite:
An Exclusive Interview with the Most Trusted Man in America
Before Walter Cronkite came to speak at an SIU Public Policy Institute-sponsored lecture, Nightlife received this exclusive interview with him by phone. This online version contains much material deleted from the print edition, and photos taken at Cronkite's press conference prior to the lecture.
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