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Unapologetically announcing that I was going out on a limb with a chainsaw, in our post-South by Southwest episode of Sound Opinions, I expanded on this blog’s earlier hyper-enthusiastic gush about the young London-based quartet Savages (I saw god and/or Savages) by declaring, “

Though the Deleterious Impact/Public Nuisance hearings can be credited—or blamed, depending on your perspective—with increased scrutiny of the Congress Theater over the last 15 months, signs that the Department of Building Affairs would let embattled owner Erineo “Eddie” Carr

Think before you post in the digital age, because Big Brother is always watching. 

Last year around this time, listeners called into my other show on WBEZ called the Morning Shift for a Cinco de Mayo grito throw down.

Asked to assess the most important part of the legacy of long-running English art-punks Wire, most fans will cite the quartet’s first three albums. But a new album and book are strong summations of the legendary art-punks’ legacy.

Judy Frydland, the deputy corporation counsel who is the city’s top building code enforcement official, shed some light on the prosecution of controversial Congress Theater owner Eddie Carranza in an interview Tuesday.

After two sessions of damning testimony presented by the city which could result in the revocation of his liquor license, embattled Congress Theater owner Eddie Carranza had his turn to defend himself Tuesday.