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Social Media Week: Richard Roeper, Steve Dahl, Robert Feder, Nancy Loo
September 26, 2011
Four Chicago media personalities discuss Reinventing a Media Career on Alternative Platforms.
Blizzard of 2011: Snow storm video (Racine, Wisconsin)
February 3, 2011
A YouTube video summary of the Blizzard of 2011, as we experienced the snowstorm here in Racine, Wisconsin.
Chicago Blizzard of 1967
January 31, 2011
Radio broadcasts and reminiscences recall the snowstorm that buried Chicago under 23 inches of snow in January of 1967.
Online radio streaming: Good work music is hard to find
November 16, 2010
Searching for streaming radio stations with the right mix of old and new music for listening during work.
Regina Spektor on Letterman, NPR with new album 'Far'
June 25, 2009
Listen to an NPR interview that aired this morning, and watch her on Letterman tomorrow night.
James Joyce: 'Ulysses' and 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'
June 12, 2009
Joyce’s Ulysses is very readable, according to the author of a new book. Having a guide to Ulysses can help.
Olbermann: Mancow gets waterboarded, calls it torture in 6 seconds
May 23, 2009
Erich ‘Mancow’ Muller had himself waterboarded in Chicago for his radio show. He lasted six seconds before declaring it torture.
Brendan Greeley celeb sighting
May 15, 2009
Edwardo spots Brendan Greeley at Wrigley on Comcast SportsNet Chicago.
Free Coldplay, WMYX loses Jane Matenaer, original Twitter, morel mushroom festival
May 15, 2009
Four items spotted this morning on Twitter, including Jane Matenaer’s departure from WMYX.
ABC's 'World News Now' (or is it 'America This Morning'?)
April 16, 2009
Whatever it’s called, it’s a pretty good early-morning news show that deserves its own website.
Bizarre Billy Bob Thornton interview with CBC Radio's Q / Qtv
April 9, 2009
Billy Bob Thornton is one irritated musician. I think it’s odd that you have to smoke, period.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis
April 3, 2009
Never-before-published photos at the LIFE website, and a long-remembered NPR interview — both capturing the day Dr. Martin Luther King was killed.
Garry Meier on WIND, Brendan & Pete on iTunes, Steve Dahl on Movable Type
February 23, 2009
Keeping up with the latest doings of former radio colleagues.
NPR: Wisconsin car dealer Russ Darrow believes in auto sales, is hiring
February 18, 2009
The company hopes to hire 55 more employees in sales, maintenance and repair and administration by March 1.
T.D. Mischke show returning March 4 via CityPages.com webcast (updated)
February 18, 2009
Great news: Tommy will be heard again beginning the first week of March.
NPR: 'Bread in the Water,' where ducks walk on fishes
December 30, 2008
I heard a truly original piece on NPR today, about an obscure Pennsylvania tourist attraction “Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish.”
Steve Dahl Show items at Chicago Tribune
December 19, 2008
Links to LaNell’s letter on the anniversary of Terry Armour’s passing, and what Steve Dahl has been up to since his radio show was canceled.
Buzz Kilman show tonight at Bill's Blues in Evanston
December 12, 2008
Buzz Kilman and the Blues Rocket Scientists are doing two sets — one at 8:30, and another at midnight.
Oh, crap -- Mischke too (updated)
December 7, 2008
My two biggest radio heroes have both been taken off the air on the same day — first Steve Dahl, and now T.D. Mischke.
She loves me, she loves me not
December 5, 2008
If we play a role in creating the world and our own future in it, then the part where we toss our crystal ball back and forth between the one hand and the other hand is crucial.
The news is in my house
December 4, 2008
Steve Dahl called me to say that CBS Radio is canceling his show, so I am losing my job.
Turning into mornings
November 8, 2007
On Monday, my working day for The Steve Dahl Show was moved up eight and a half hours.
Aloha from Siberia
February 15, 2007
Our Wisconsin winter was making us nearly suicidal, but the music and food of Hawaii and Barack Obama all give us the audacity of hope.
NOAA Weather Radios with SAME technology
February 9, 2007
One of these radios could save your life, or the lives of your loved ones.
Trying on music
December 28, 2006
I already like all the songs in my iTunes library. Where can I discover new music to like?
