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Queen at Live Aid

Yes, it was 33 years ago, but damn! Queen's Live Aid performance at Wembley Stadium still gives me chills. Look at how Freddie Mercury pours everything into this 20 minute set.

Slow TV

Election Day was stressful for me, as I'm sure it was for many. So I just searched for some Slow TV on YouTube and let it run all day long....

My News Diet

[caption id="attachment_280" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Fallow newspaper boxes in downtown Chicago, January 2012. Credit: Dan X. O'Neil.[/caption] Because I work in politics, friends often assume I like to talk about the...

Smoke Filled Room

I produce a podcast at work, The Smoke Filled Room, where two old Chicago political hacks, Victor Reyes and Mike Noonan, just riff on what's going on. It's fascinating, because...

Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher is the awesome O.G. of tech writers. This week her publication, Recode, went through some changes, and another tech writer used the occasion to throw some shade. Kara hit...