Pappas

• CHICAGO, Oct. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is launching a new radio show, "Latino Houses Matter," to help property owners get tax refunds they may be owed for overpayments or missed exemptions.
• Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is launching a new radio show, "Latino Houses Matter."
• "Latino Houses Matter" is set to air from noon to 12:30 p.m. Mondays beginning Oct. 23 on WRLL-AM 1450.
• WRLL is a Spanish-language sister station of WVON-AM 1690, which since 2020 has aired Pappas' popular "Black Houses Matter" radio show from 11:30 a.m. to noon on Mondays.

• But there really was a time when exposure to culture was mediated by curators who had far too much power over what we all saw, heard or experienced.
• We had a film press, a television press, a literary press – and a music press.
• Nonetheless, I would read rock publications voraciously and I never passed up the opportunity to contribute.
• There were also things that Fell failed (or perhaps chose not) to include.

Molly, Lily and Go-Set

• Set up by university students, whose only prior experience was Monash University’s paper, Go-Set quickly filled a need for information and connection among pop fans.
• Enthusiastic writers like Lily Brett, Ian (Molly) Meldrum, Johnny Young and Douglas Panther conveyed the inside story of the lives of musicians and celebrities, while maintaining a particular accessibility for their “teens and twenties” readers.
• Go-Set’s publisher, Philip Frazer, went on, in a haphazard way, to bring a Rolling Stone franchise to Australia.

Street papers: ‘uniquely Australian’

• Their extensive advertising revenue from venues, record companies and related industries allowed these publications to be provided at no cost.
• The street paper killed RAM and Juke, not by being anywhere near as good, but far, far cheaper.
• Fell loves the “street papers”, and one gets the sense he would happily have written about them alone.
• Read more:
  How a 'pot-smoking, acid-gobbling smart-arse' became the producer behind some of Australia's greatest music

Undeniable soap operas

• What’s the word for respecting an author’s restraint, while wishing there was just a bit more goss within their pages?
• Of course, there were many links between the producers of music magazines and the people they wrote about.
• By links, I don’t just mean romantic or domestic entanglements, though I do mean that, of course.
• There are also great, undeniable soap operas.
• A public spat between Steve Kilbey of The Church and music journalist Stuart Coupe in the early 1980s springs to mind.

Smash Hits and Rolling Stone

• Back to the topic of Countdown: Fell pays its competitor, Australian Smash Hits, minimal notice.
• Fell didn’t talk to anyone from (or even really about) Australian Smash Hits.
• Rolling Stone has, of course, a 50-year history in Australia.
• Whereas Australian Smash Hits was often criticised for including content from its British parent, the first decade of Rolling Stone in this country was typically little more than a distillation of old cut-and-pastes from the American magazine.

‘I thought it was sci-fi nonsense’

• I was impressed that he believed it, but I thought it was sci-fi nonsense.
• Of course, there is still a music press: look at the preposterously overblown global influence of Pitchfork, for instance.
• In Australia, the music press only takes print form in the most boutique of varieties, like Melbourne magazine Efficient Space.

• CHICAGO, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A once-in-a-generation investment market for government worker pension funds likely will be fleeting, according to a Cook County Treasurer's Office report of local government debt.
• But those gains are expected to be diminished by investment losses in fiscal 2022 that have yet to be fully recorded.
• The report also explains why some predominantly minority south suburbs have high property tax rates despite relatively low amounts of overall debt.
• That occurs when troubled finances constrain the ability to borrow, forcing local leaders to instead raise property taxes to fund government.

• Recorded at Jardine's own Red Barn Studios in Big Sur, Calif., A Postcard from California touches upon California's history, natural beauty and other environmental issues.
• Previously, on the Beach Boys' Surf's Up album, he and Mike Love wrote the song, "Don't Go Near the Water."
• 1 on the Billboard Top 100 for the Beach Boys in 1965 on the strength of Jardine's unforgettable lead vocal.
• Now, just in time for Al Jardine's 80th birthday, his debut solo album, A Postcard from California is available once again for all to enjoy.