Chicago Tribune

May 23 1991
feature story by Steve Johnson

This feature story was published as the crew was filming Episode #30: "Sex with Men." It's longer and more detailed than the previous one in Chicago's New City weekly, but it irritated Joe and the crew with its focus on Joe and his lifestyle.

Excerpt

"[Joe's Basement] certainly seems to be more ambitious than most [access TV programs.] What, after all, do you make of a show that based one episode entirely on man-in-the-street interviews, in which black people are asked, 'What do you think of white people,' and vice versa? Although that episode earned the praise of the Tribune's TV critic and a 1st-place finish in the public-affairs category at last year's cable-access awards ceremony, it still opened with a wry touch: For his introductory snack food, Winston was eating Oreos."