Mary Dixon
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Mary Dixon is a Chicago native who had to take the long way home. Not long after her birth at Loretto Hospital on the West Side, Mary’s parents packed the family up for their ancestral home of Dixon, Illinois. It was there that she quit a career as a very bad waitress to begin spinning records and reading hog reports for WIXN Radio. [Read Mary's Full Bio]
Watch Jon Langford’s UIC Commencement Speech
“I have no job, but I win bread.” It’s college commencement season. Who better to exhort grads than Mekon/Waco Bro/Man About Town Jon Langford? Here he is last weekend at UIC – his speech begins [...]
2013/05/16
Dateline: Chicago 2083 [Listen]
What will Chicago look like in 2083? Will we travel in hover cars? Go to the theater in our minds? Mayor Emanuel’s new proposed parking meters deal would mean longer weekday hours, but free parking [...]
2013/04/30
Lin’s Bin: Mary’s Bin [Free Download]
Ever wonder what Lin is like when he is off the mic? Take a behind the scenes look and find out if Mr. Brehmer lives up to his title as your best friend in the [...]
2013/04/01
Winter Is Coming — Again!
The XRT Morning Show is on Stormwatch, with the National Weather Service issuing a Winter Storm Warning from 9 a.m. until midnight. Forecasters are expecting we’ll get 4″ to 8″ of blowing snow which may [...]
WXRT–2013/03/05
David Bowie’s New Video: Tilda Swinton And Doppelgangers [Watch]
David Bowie is unveiling yet another video — really, a short film — as he prepares to release his new album “The Next Day.” “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” features a nice married couple (Bowie [...]
WXRT–2013/02/26
Sister Act – Top Ten Bands Of Sisters
Today’s Friday Feature, Rockin’ Families, may have been inspired by Sunday’s Bro-Bowl, and that’s fine. We appreciate our beloved brothers. It’s just that sometimes we need to remind them of a few things: 1) Put [...]
2013/02/01
Top TV – XRT Listener Poll 2012 Results!
XRT listeners were facing their fears every time they snuggled in front of the ol’ television. The top t-v shows in the 2012 listener poll took the drug-lords-corrupt-politicians-natural-disasters-mothers-in-law head on and turned them into top rate entertainment. So what were our five favorite shows?
2013/01/10
Friday Basket Full Of … Kittens!
Some of us are just kittycat people. Nothing against puppies, and our Friday tradition of a basket full of puppies is not in jeopardy. But some of us felt the kitties deserved equal time. As [...]
2013/01/04
The End Is Near? Nahhh …
Tomorrow is December 21, 2012. It marks the end of the Mayan calendar, and subsequently, the end of the world. Except that it doesn’t, and it’s not the end of the world. That means people [...]
2012/12/20
By 2018, Computers Predicted To Mimic Senses
IBM workers are saying that in just five years, computers will have the ability to copy the five human senses. A development the company is referring to as an “era of cognitive systems,” the new [...]
2012/12/18
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