Candice Agree

“Problematize??????”

“…obsessed with the purity of their own food and everyone else’s, and imbuing it all with levels of moral judgement made all the more ghastly by the amount of power they wield.”

#EarlyMusicWednesday Swiss recorder player & conductor Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos tonight at 10CT on WFMT. Join me for “Baroque&Before” and enjoy this portrait of a young & hunky Bach www.wfmt.com/2026/02/25/b...

CPD Officer Accused of Violating Rights of Black Drivers During Downtown Traffic Stops Stripped of Police Powers Officer Richard Rodriquez is the fifth member of a tactical team to be stripped of his badge and gun after COPA identified a troubling pattern of undocumented and unprofessional traffic stops of Black...

5 members of a CPD tactical team have been stripped of their badges ands gun after the agency tasked with investigating misconduct identified a troubling pattern of undocumented and unprofessional traffic stops of Black Chicagoans. @wttw.bsky.social

Isaac Hayes Estate Settles with Trump Over ‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ Isaac Hayes’ estate reaches a private settlement with Donald Trump after accusing his campaign of the unauthorized use of a 1966 classic hit.

Do Your Thing
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A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

All clear.

I’m sorry that I added to your aggravation. Coming down shortly.

Happy to honor your request. I know the joke’s from your childhood, and there are many Jewish hockey players now. The observation’s still funny. Yes, I’ll take it down.

Bach: Mass in b minor | WFMT Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in one of the supreme works of the Baroque era; one that has fascinated musicians and listeners for more than 2...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Gregorian chant to the galant, Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. 2nite 10CT, Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704 & vocal soloists in this live concert recording from Prague. www.wfmt.com/2026/02/18/b...

Happens also with “bombastic,” as if it were a fancy way of saying “da bomb.”

Clearly anyone can do it

City Center Encores

Couldn’t get tickets for “Aged In Wood” (IYKYK) but thrilled to be here!

“My girdles come from Best.” from Nobody makes a Pass at Me (Pins and Needles)

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Ars Subtilior: Ballades, Rondeaux & Virelais | WFMT Love is complicated, but not as complicated as the music that celebrates it.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Love is complicated, but not as complicated as ars subtilior, the 14th-century musical style that celebrates it. Join me tonite, 10CT for @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2026/02/11/a...

Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune | WFMT Marc Mauillon and friends (Maud Haering, Angélique Mauillon, Nolwenn Le Guern, and Pierre Hamon bring us the romantic Le Remède de Fortune, a “dit,” or narrative poem with music by Guillame de Machaut...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Guillaume de Machaut was 14th-century Europe’s greatest poet and composer. Marc Mauillon and friends bring us Guillaume’s romance “Le Remède de Fortune” by this exemplar of the ars nova musical style. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2026/02/04/g...

Prophetic, writing his own death notice here. 😔

Mezzo-Soprano Alexis Peart, Tenor Travon D. Walker, and Pianist Michael Banwarth | WFMT Our Recital begins with music of Handel and Mozart as we’ll hear selections from the operas Semele, Ariodante, and Così fan tutte. Later, Alexis Peart will perform Alma Mahler’s exquisite “Fünf Lieder...

#FirstSundayOfTheMonth: From Handel to Billie Holiday! Members of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center regale us with these vocal gems, plus arias and art song by Mozart, Schumann and Alma Mahler. Join us this evening at 5 CT on WFMT! www.wfmt.com/2026/02/01/m...

Don Lemon's arrest escalates Trump's clashes with journalists The former CNN anchor arrested Friday has never been afraid of controversy, despite some career setbacks.

“The scene of a reporter standing before a judge and facing federal charges for doing his job once seemed unimaginable in the U.S.,” writes @stevebattaglio.bsky.social www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Gotta have a song

“Crap,” she said

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

he was murdered for doing public health

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies,…and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."
— George Orwell, 1984

A little viola, a little stand-up www.instagram.com/reel/DTvE8oB...

No proofreaders, no copy editors, no line editors. 😔

You’re not married till you’re married in Billboard. 29 years and still prime numbers 🥂