Godspeed You! Black Emperor Live at Centrum Hall on 2001-10-02 https://archive.org/details/ajc02675_gybe2001-10-02.ajcproject

The Chicago skyline, seen this morning from Montrose Point

Ice caves forming on the Great Lakes, bringing beauty and danger Interlochen Public Radio | By Brian Freiberger | Leelanau Enterprise www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2026-02-11/i...

'Cheryl Scott Warned You About This' among finalists for Chicago snowplow naming contest Other top 25 submissions include 'Pope Frio XIV,' 'Caleb Chilliams,' and 'Abolish ICE' abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Rejoice! There’s a new Stereolab single! “Cloud Land” (2026) youtu.be/AuT0ecf38nQ?...

Unexpected viaduct art on Kimball Avenue

The Get Up Kids Live at Metro 1999-11-21 https://archive.org/details/ajc02616_thegetupkids1999-11-21

Watching the Bathurst (Australia) 12H race, and this art livery is fantastic

Over the last 36 years, I swore an oath to the US Constitution for 5 different careers. I’ve never sworn allegiance to a person. Or a party. And certainly not to ignorant greedy crooks. My next constitutional oath will be as a lawyer. And then I’ll see these ignorant greedy crooks again. Bet on it

Matt Lauer’s Accuser Complicates Her Story Brooke Nevils’s memoir is also a reckoning with many misconceptions about #MeToo narratives. By Hillary Kelly Gift link www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Pam Bondi's Rap Sheet emptywheel.net/pam-bondis-r...

Today!

“Lost Angel” (Rowland, 1943) Margaret O’Brien & Marsha Hunt

First Cubs game is Friday vs. White Sox I still don’t understand why they use an X in their name.

Bogie and Bacall Happy Valentine's Day

"His main genius is for the instruments of corruption, an orchestra of malfeasance at which he is admittedly a maestro." www.the-reframe.com/the/

“I’ve never seen federal agents so out of control and acting in such a malicious manner,” a former federal prosecutor and federal judge said. “They said they were going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ then they became the problem. Read this by @jonschuppe.bsky.social & @natashakorecki.bsky.social

It's never just one lie or one harm in isolation. After the feds lied about why/how they shot a man, they also did this to a neighborhood mostly helpless to defend itself (and MSM was happy to frame it all as "clashes").

Neon Row (1958) by Wadsworth Jarrell, who later cofounded AfriCOBRA collective. This is a glimpse of Cottage Grove looking south from 63rd Street. Artist's own collection.

Rep Ocasio-Cortez is a cosponsor of the Living Wage for Musicians Act 🔥

Kids of the Black Hole: Punk in Southern California fullertonhistory.com/2023/05/11/k...

They were one of the few punk bands to stop and play a show in Midland/Odessa, and they were so awesome. Never had a more appreciative little audience. It was a highlight of the year. Trying to remember the LA post punk band. It’ll likely hit me at 4am

The Lobster Claw (SH2-157) and Bubble (NGC 7635) is a rich complex nebulae region in Cassiopeia. This is a mosaic photo in which ionized Sulfur(reds), Hydrogen(yellows) and Oxygen (blues) are imaged using the Hubble palette. Summer data processed this past frigid week #astronomy #astrophotography

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Can’t build higher than four floors because “think of the traffic!” but adding 368 more cars to Wrigleyville 81 times a year gets rubber-stamped without a second thought, okay

My dog looks like a medieval drawing of a lion

And there is baseball!! Thank the little baby Jesus.

Notice the reasoning when the Baltimore Banner’s editor-in-chief explains their jumping in. dankennedy.net/2026/02/13/w... "At a time when so much pulls communities apart, sports bring us together. The Washington Post’s decision to eliminate its sports section creates an opportunity for us..."

Aden Live at Lounge Ax 1999-05-29 https://archive.org/details/ajc02637_aden_1999-05-29

Watching F1 preseason testing, and there appears to be a huge problem with standing starts and the new engine. Yikes! ½

I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.

Kenneth Noland's Loft by Horst P. Horst for Vogue, February 1972

Remember kids, try to steal an entire country, and you can be President!

“Have you heard about this movie where Juliette Lewis plays a chair?” Amanda Kramer’s BY DESIGN is playing all weekend at the Music Box 🪑 Limited edition temporary tattoos available at the theater while supplies last! Showtimes & Ticket Info: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Putting this out there bc it WILL happen in MN too. Things will appear normal to those never unwillingly at risk when the traveling terror circus leaves town. Life will resume some normalcy for most. But they're still here, in many ways.

Powerful Black History Month films up on TCM right now: The Black Panthers (2015) Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982) Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) Freedom on my Mind (1994) ✊

I interviewed Jah Pool, a hip-hop tastemaker involved in the New Chicago movement—he manages rappers, books shows (including pop-ups on the back of U-Haul vans), and hosts projects

“Police”

A link to the story on the Jan6er who believed he could get away with molesting children bc of Trump's pardon. www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...

The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner. I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.

The lay of the pre-MLB lockout land, and what a compromise might look like What Kyle Tucker's Dodgers contract means for MLB labor peace www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I haven’t seen it yet, but I definitely believe you’re showing it tomorrow

Out of the Past rules. I’m a little confused why the story says it opened “when venues like The Warehouse in the West Loop hosted genre mainstays like DJ Frankie Knuckles,” when the Warehouse had closed four years before Out of the Past opened

Politician popping off about sports

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

A Night At McKie's drawing in the Sep. 13 '62 issue of Downbeat. Sketch by George Roth of Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Jim Hall, Billy Higgins and Bob Cranshaw.

Nicolas Cage is SPIDER-NOIR in the official trailer for Prime Video's live action series. The series arrives in True-Hue full color and authentic Black & White May 27 on Prime.