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As 2012 looms, Jerome and Radio M host Tony Sarabia pick their favorite music from this year.

It used to be that a musician vying to get their music on a commercial or television show was considered by some to be a sellout.

When Oprah ended her talk show here in Chicago – another recognizable face stepped up. Rosie O’Donnell now does her daily talk show in Oprah’s studio in the West Loop--and is also living in the city. And so is some of her crew!

After years of commercial success on top of the soul charts, the preacher’s daughter returned to her religious roots.In January of 1972, Aretha Franklin—known as the Queen of Soul—got back to gospel.She put on a pair of concerts at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

Jean Luc Godard’s 1968 film Weekend is exactly the weekend you DON’T want to have!  A couple jumps in the car, heads to the country, hits the mother of all traffic jams and then?  Mayhem, murder, and cannibalism!  What is it about a couple of days off from the grind that prov

Piano. from Paul Rayment on Vimeo.Chicago has no shortage of film festivals.  Seriously you could spend practically every weekend checking out the best in international film or new movies for children or even films about bikes!

This Sunday, confrontations between Coptic Christians and armed forces left 25 dead in Egypt. We speak to CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab, who just returned from Egypt, about the country’s presidential election, military rule, and evolving sectarian tensions.