New City Article by Brian Buckman

NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago

“They can go fuck themselves, they can go for it,” Chicagoan Richard Bluestein tells me over the phone. Bluestein, better known to his fans as Madge Weinstein, the demagogic host of podcasting’s most acerbic show, “Yeast Radio” (https://www.yeastradio.com), sees podcasting exploding “like Starbucks” and feels that Clear Channel’s attempts to belly up to the bar will only chasm out the pathways with greater ferocity. “What’s happening is a huge convergence of media and entertainment, literally and figuratively. And if it brings more recognition to the artists creating the content, it’s a good thing.”
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“The great thing about podcasting,” Richard Bluestein tells me in closing, applying the final smudges of bright orange lipstick as he prepares to become the “bloated lesbian” Madge Weinstein once again, “is that it gives me a voice. Without my podcast I probably wouldn’t have one.”

(2005-04-12)