Today and tomorrow the Metropolitan Opera will be having their Eastern District National Council Auditions right here at Columbia.  Singers are competing for an opportunity in the final round to sing onstage at the Met, where tickets run up to $80, and winners get a sizable chunk of money and press.  Most winners wind up […]

  Public radio nerds, light your torches and sharpen your pitchforks (this, not this)—Ira Glass’s honor is under attack. The mastermind and host of WBEZ Chicago’s “This American Life” is the star of a celebrity sex tape, Public Radio Nerd No. 1, Austin Williams, explains.  Well, sort of. Julian Joslin, (also older brother of CC […]

There’ll be laughin’ and singin’ and music swingin’ and dancin’ in the streets How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, [next] year’s rent?  Here in my car, I feel safest of all.  But for now I find it’s only in my dreams that I can change the world. I want to wake up in […]