We’ll admit we have it pretty lucky in Chicago with regard to record stores. While some locales are limited to whatever Target or Best Buy will stock, our city enjoys options aplenty from outlets like Reckless Records, Permanent Rex and Laurie’s Planet of Sound, to name a few. With this past weekend’s opening of Saki, the new retail store from Carrot Top Distributions, that local record store community just got a little bigger. more ›

Ah, geez. Here we were thinking that every time we saw “Sister Act” playing on a rainy Saturday all we had to do was change the channel. After all, we made it out of the 90s alive—we shouldn’t be punished with any more Whoopi Goldberg. But like she did with Hollywood Squares (or, really, like Hollywood Squares keeps doing) she weaseled her way back into the public eye. Whether or not you care, she isn’t... more ›