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Enjoyed co-hosting @chicagofair’s Globalfest 2022 Saturday night at Newberry Library with @JeromeMcDonnell & listening to the cool sounds of Tex-Amex/Americana band #LosGallos. #fairtrade forever

I and my wife spent the night with U2’s #Bono at The Chicago Theatre. He shared from his #SurrenderMemoir — a night of joy, Communion & co-suffering love. Bono beseeches us to do as he — “cash in our currency” of privilege for the life of the world. Amen. “We’re one…” ONE

#equity at work

Heads up, Chicago street parkers! Chicago’s Overnight Winter Parking Ban Starts Thursday. Here’s How To Avoid Getting Towed blockclubchicago.org/2022/11/29/chi…

Hey! RIGHT NOW, I’m with my partner in crime Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons’s @Meha. We are begging you for money! Support WBEZ. Support facts. Support truth. Call 888-915-9239 or go to wbez.org/donate

After #SuperBowlLVII can we stop with the whole “Joe Burrow and Josh Allen are the game” and give Mahomes his due?! Patrick Mahomes II may not the Greatest Of All Time, yet, but no doubt he’s the GOAT (Greatest Of All TODAY)! The best now playing, PERIOD! Mic drop please.

I grew up in this town & a whole lot of Black folk, including me & mine said, “I’m going to Jewels.” Spend this time thinking about the hungry & how to serve those in deep need. But that’s hard. What’s easy is to troll an amazing, empathetic public servant like S A S H A.

Some people work for food. At WBEZ, Luke Labuz and I work for pledges! Call us at 888-915-9239 or go to wbez.org/donate and support local and trusted journalism!

Be kind to umbrellas. Don’t shun them when they enter restaurants. Don’t toss them in the back of your car with disdain! Luke Labuz says, “Give this one a home by calling 888-915-9239 or going to wbez.org/donate!”

Brrrrr! Vocalo Radio 91.1’s Ayana Contreras (ayanacontreras.bsky.social ) and I are freezing our tushies off in the studio as we wind down WBEZ’s Spring Pledge Drive. We beseech you to donate at 888-915-9239 or go to wbez.org/donate!

Thank you Dan Bernstein for giving me my wisdom for the year — “Open a book!” Hanging out with my wife at the Randolph St. Market!

Aunjanue Ellis as Hippolyta in LOVECRAFT COUNTRY 🛸 “We Can Be Sheroes: Celebrating Black Women in Sci-Fi" screening + panel 06/30 @ 6pm, in partnership with Color Comics. 🎟facets.org/programs/we-ca…

See this Instagram post by @ysolstar instagram.com/p/CuBClwstjl4/…

Fun event alert!! Moderated by Steve Bynum!!! Cc: all comic and sci fi fans bit.ly/facetsblackshe…

Back at ya, Brandon Pope TV! bit.ly/facetsblackshe…

READ THIS outstanding but head-shaking story by my former colleague Kate McGee Balagia.

Today is #RespectfortheAgedDay. Here is a beautiful tribute from Neil Steinberg of Chicago Sun-Times to his father. Feel free to share photos of your elderly loved-ones! chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/202…

What WON’T Alex Keefe do for WBEZ’s #PublicMediaGivingDays?! Tote bags and public media…ingredients for a classic SNL skit! Please help Al and go to wbez.org/donate or call 888-915-9239 and support local journalism.