'off Mic" With Mike Puente

Our verion of A Christmas Carol Radio Play as aired in December, 2021 on Lakeshore Public Radio. As an added bonus, we include a Sherlock Holmes Radio Mystery! Enjoy!

As the war between Russia and Ukraine widens, we ask what more can the U.S. do to air Ukraine? And what's next for Russia? Off Mic host Michael Puente speaks to Milan Andrejevich Professor of History and Political Science Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.

Getting through college can be tough and maybe even tougher if you're the first in your family to attend college. AnnaMaria Hernandez is a first-generation college student and talks about her experience. She also talks about her plans for the future.

"Off Mic" host Michael Puente interviews Nilda Rivera to talk Puerto Rican holiday food traditions including the ever popular drink coquito.

The "What The Heck" Comedy Troup presents A Christmas Carol and the Red-Headed League

It's a big weekend for the movies. A new adapation of West Side Story hits the silver screen. Will it, can it, live up to the original 1961 film? Will today's audiences accept the concept? Michael Puente speaks with theater veteran Larry Brechner, Dee Dotson and Ivette Flores.

On Wednesday evening around 7, when temperatures were falling far below freezing, Michael Brothers headed toward a McDonald’s restaurant in East Chicago, Indiana to stay warm. But the restaurant, like most businesses in the area, had closed. "I was going to be one of those people frozen, seen outside -- they made a story about him on social media," Brothers said who dreaded staying in the cold much longer. As Brothers would soon find out, a group of concerned citizens had opened a makeshift, 24-hour shelter inside a cafeteria of St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in East Chicago. (Photo: Michael Brothers, 38, plays cards while staying at a temporary homeless shelter in East Chicago, Indiana during this week's historic cold snap. Come Saturday, Brothers isn't sure what his next move will be once the shelter closes. (Photo by Michael Puente/WBEZ)