Barry Owen
@barryo
Chicago, music, politics, pizza, #mubb www.owenadvocacy.com All opinions are personal Board Member CHIRP Radio chirpradio.org Tell your smart speaker to play CHIRP Radio!
This is the Metro that Apple Music thinks A Place to Bury Strangers is playing in November. @metrochicago.com
Would you like to hear Dilla, Rebecca Makkai and Natalie Moore talk about music and Chicago on a panel moderated by Jim DeRogatis? Of course you would!! So please join me at CHIRP’s Sounds Like Chicago on May 28 at Trigger! Details here: www.chirpradio.org/soundslike
SPRINTS at Lincoln Hall so fierce and full of heart. One of the best live bands on earth
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And tx to those who came out to our event a couple weeks ago!! What amazing speakers! Buy Mindy’s chocolates! Go to Beverly & Johnny’s Parachute Hi-Fi! Give Hot Doug a hi five! And listen to @kleonard.bsky.social podcast!! And hat tip to @tonipreckwinkle.bsky.social @jimderogatis.bsky.social
Terrible truth about scary times: Dave Chappelle’s Black Bush scene basically is the roadmap for what we’ll see from the WH over the coming days & weeks
I found Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail on my Dad’s bookshelf when I was an impressionable teen just getting into politics. Directly led to Boys on the Bus, then Tom Wolfe, then Beats, and so much more.
Hey Chicago! Tix are going fast, so grab yours now and come see Hot Doug, Jim DeRogatis, Mindy Segal, Toni Preckwinkle, @kleonard.bsky.social & Beverly Kim and Johnny Clark talk Chicago & music! Proceeds to benefit @chirpradio.org
Hey Chicago! Please come out for Sounds Like Chicago - conversations about music and life in Chicago hosted by Jim DeRogatis with Toni Preckwinkle, Mindy Segal, Hot Doug and more! www.chirpradio.org/soundslike
Tonight! Part of the CHIRP Radio Film Fest at the Music Box! Be there!! Special celebration for Brian Eno’s 77th birthday! www.chirpfilmfest.org
I picked up a copy of The Onion every week it was in print from that first day on. Until it wasn’t in print anymore. My dad is a devoted reader these days too. It’s about time The Onion is back in print! Great work everyone involved! America needs The Onion!! 4/4 @theonion.com
What an indictment of our country. The BIG mouth, Ms Nikki know nothing, Ronnie the corpse in his corset, and Mr vicious smarmy. And they’re all being crushed the real big fat loser who had the biggest inauguration crowd ever, just ask him.