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The @blueandrea.bsky.social algorithm has labeled Schiavone’s mid-16th century’s painting “The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche” as adult content and has hid it from view. You’ll see my post on wfmt’s website when you click on the link. We are doomed. But enjoy the broadcast!

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Once upon a time in America

“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...

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

Do Your Thing www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/23/i...

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.

#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...

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

📻 A great way to celebrate #WorldRadioDay: MediaAttic Radio is heard worldwide on Live365.com, Radio.net, TuneIn, and via MediaAtticRadio.com 📻

#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...

#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...

#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...

“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

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...

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

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Babies with flashbangs? Serving suggestion: “ICE uses flashbangs to gas suspected….” #BriefcaseForMenWithZippers

Dear beltway reporters, the next time she appears in public, please ask her to prove her citizenship right there on the spot. Does she carry her birth certificate? Her passport?

“Simply by joining the fight for independence, Longchamps had become an American citizen in the eyes of many citizens—and they saw the official attempt to delegitimize his claim to citizenship as an attack on their citizenship.” daily.jstor.org/contesting-a...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Vibrato on a (non-electronic) keyboard? This effect and more is possible with the clavichord. Join me tonight, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT for an intimate program of works for clavichord by Johann Jakob Froberger. www.wfmt.com/2026/01/14/s...

Oh, dear. Please see me.

Oh, dear…

“Once a bug, the variations in sound afforded by finicky analog technology were now a positive attribute.” daily.jstor.org/tape-heads/

#EarlyMusicWednesday “Baroque&Before”begins its twelfth year of werr weekly broadcasts on WFMT! Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in sonatas of the Italian Baroque. Recorded live in concert in Poland’s Church of Peace. Join me tonight 10CT! www.wfmt.com/2026/01/07/s...

In “All the President’s Men,” the predominantly British spelling of “criticize” (“criticise”) is a head-scratcher. Anyone know whether the Washington Post ever used this spelling? 🙃 #UltimateQuestions

#FirstSundays on WFMT: Join me at 5pm CT for our first broadcast of 2026 of our Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center Recital Series. www.wfmt.com/2026/01/04/t...

Those were the days

#EarlyMusicWednesday Our special Christmas edition: Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio for 1734-1735’s season. Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations & soloists, recorded live in concert December 18 & 29, 2019 in Barcelona’s Palau de la Música. www.wfmt.com/2025/12/24/b...

Everything old is numes again. Let’s All Chant!

Aimless Christmas dads, the clock’s ticking…https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14UdeaV3dJ7/?mibextid=wwXIfr

💌🎄“When you say, ‘Miss Novak, let's go in the back to put some bags on the shelf,’ you really want to put some bags on the shelf. And that's my idea of a gentleman.” #Lubitsch #Raphaelson #CelluloidPerfection #Raktár 🎄💌

The Brooklyn Nets paid tribute to the victims of the Sydney Hanukkah terror attack at their game this week. The 14-year-old nephew of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, one of the victims, lit a giant basketball menorah during the match. With the light of Hanukkah, we overcome the dark. 🕯️

#EarlyMusicWednesday The Christmas season was a busy time for church composers in the eighteenth century, adding writing music for Advent & Christmas in addition to their regular duties. Join me 2nite, 10CT for 2 hours of pastoral concertos on “Baroque&Before” www.wfmt.com/2025/12/17/i...

This year, as every year, we pray for the Miracle of the Electrical Tape

#Chicago morning at 6 degrees

My word

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#EarlyMusicWednesday Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, commemorates the story of Judas Maccabaeus. Nicholas McGegan leads the Philharmonia Baroque Orch, U.C. Berkely Chamber Chorus & soloists bring us Handel’s version tonight, 10CT on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/12/10/h...