If you’re looking for a nice Sunday read about a warehouse in the middle of Illinois that’s filled with more than a million records, you’re in luck

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Yikes

Giving out kudos to anybody who can guess their state's entry.

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

I’m at the Taylor Swift marriage or whatever. Beers are literally 26 dollars

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just shockingly hostile to the people who live in DC

I wrote about Creed’s Summer of ‘99 and Beyond Festival in its third year, which celebrates the bland, muddy rock sound of deregulated radio

Nothing says happy birthday USA like imprisoning a Team USA Olympic athlete.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Local musician John Rice has died. Robbie Fulks wrote a nice tribute on Facebook, which has comments from other musicians including Kelly Hogan and Jon Langford. www.facebook.com/share/1CGhcL...

new: construction on chicago’s sprawling quantum computing megadevelopment began last year, but gov. jb pritzker and his sister penny pritzker have been working to reimagine chicago as a tech hub for years. here’s the story behind the pritzkers’ plot to create the “quantum prairie.” via grey lucas

Morning

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afternoon crowd

Southland Tales

In April, I ventured to a part of Illinois I didn’t know existed to dig for records in a warehouse overstuffed with them.

I visited a bunch of west suburban ice cream spots, for journalism

Whoa — our local guy! Bob Dylan Enlists Joel Paterson As Lone Guitarist After Band Shakeup stereogum.com/2503869/bob-...

I’ve seen street festival openers play to more people

Hey I wrote this

Absolutely deranged

small cheval

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

On this, the Mel Brooks centennial, allow @schimkowitz.bsky.social and I to say comedy… now more than ever!

Confession: I went to Small Cheval this week. As a bit. A bit!

I wrote about the Chosen Few Picnic for the Reader

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That’s right

NY-10 is, according to the Jewish Electorate Institute, the second most Jewish Congressional district in the US. (www.jewishelectorateinstitute.org/p6611) It voted overwhelmingly for a candidate who says Israel is committing genocide. That should challenge assumptions about what American Jews want.

Backrooms (dir. Kane Parsons, 2026)

the reviews are in!!

Clive Davis, hitmaking titan of the music industry, dies at 94

Extremely strong and good response

wow they really got my number

Getting a lot of Joan of Arc vibes from this (complimentary)

adamn killa do arrest me daddy at the reflecting pool

one might say that social media is a "reflecting pool" of one another and that the winning barons of the day have "filled it with algae"

BREAKING: Iran closing Strait of Hormuz over Israeli attacks on Lebanon

This is the most Frank Drebin shit I’ve ever seen

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It’s pretty neat that Friday’s headliner makes no mention of this fest on his socials or linked tour dates and is currently promoting an NYC performance happening Saturday

Good band good album

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now that’s what I call a reflecting pool

Like many college radio stations, WHPK faces precarity due to the vagaries of university budgeting. The station's new digital archiving project not only preserves pieces of music history but also makes a case for WHPK's place in that history. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Fucking what? By who???