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First, there was Google. Then, there was Google Mail. Then, Google Images/Video/Maps.
Now, there’s Google Romance. If you’re single, this is way, way better than eHarmony, and no annoying ads on late-night TV. They seem to have coordinated with local radio stations, such as Chicago’s WXRT, for this promotion. Isn’t it romantic?
Although, it’s a shame [...]

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We went to Bob Chinn’s yesterday to help Steve celebrate a birthday. It was a typicaly Bob Chinny experrience: waitstaff in Hawaiian aloha shirts with tropical fish, a huge dining room with the handwashing stations everywhere that were supposed to look like barrels of Myers’ Rum (an ingredient in the famous Bob Chinn Mai Tai) [...]

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Golden Globe winner Ricky Gervais missed his chance today to connect with American public radio listeners.
Yes, when Whad’Ya Know? called, Mr Gervais was not at home to Mr. Feldman. So they called some guy whose diner they ate at when they did a road show in the area.
It’s a live radio show, and [...]

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WXRT Radio Chicago - On-Air Personality Bios - Lin Brehmer
On my way in this morning, I was listening to Lin Brehmer on WXRT and caught the tail end of his show. For some reason, Terri Hemmert was attempting to lure him back into the studio from the window ledge. All very funny, but there was [...]

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Minnesota Public Radio’s Fitzgerald Theater: A Prairie Home Companion Movie
I thought David was kidding the other morning when he told me about this. It was on one of the NPR weekend news shows - I must have been completely unconscious, or perhaps I was downstairs indulging in Honey Nut Cheerios and fooling around with the [...]

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