A casual mention by Frank Bruni in today's NY Times concerning a certain Barack Obama's views about dining out, as expressed in 2001 on, as Mr. Bruni coyly said, "a restaurant-related television show in Chicago" (any foodie fool would know that was a reference, however veiled, to Check, Please!, the original incarnation and inspiration for our local show on KQED).Although not completely thrilled by the sentiments expressed by
then-State Senator for Illinois' 13th district Obama, whose keynote
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EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello
Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Against the Machine) and becoming the first American rock band to play a free show in Cuba (with Audioslave). Morello's kept the revolutionary fervor stoked with his solo project, The Nightwatchman, which