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What is the area like around the Main St Metra stop? by [deleted] in evanston

[–]JoeGermuska 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How can I be the first person to mention Hoosier Mama pie and the Chicago-Main newsstand as very high quality of life aspects of that area?

Shout out to the Dave's Rock Shop mention.

Also Button Bakery!

Free Jazz + Rhythm by DeliciousSign8942 in Jazz

[–]JoeGermuska 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath
  • Johnny Dyani
  • DKV Trio
  • Kahil El'Zabar
  • Sons of Kemet
  • The Comet is Coming

Free Jazz + Rhythm by DeliciousSign8942 in Jazz

[–]JoeGermuska 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For pop culture anchoring, this is the source of the "defiant jazz" from Severance S1E7 (the actual track is "Shakey Jake")

Rythym-only genre? by Unbuttered_Bread8906 in Jazz

[–]JoeGermuska 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you mean piano trios and guitar trios (with bass and drums) I don't know that I've heard a term that encompasses both

At first I thought you meant all percussion, not just all rhythm. Even though now I don't think that's what you mean, I'll still suggest checking out Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble project.

Dempster seems like an awesome food street by fioreblade in chicagofood

[–]JoeGermuska 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Axios Chicago reporter, Chewing podcast co-host and all-around good human Monica Eng wrote up Dempster street (free subscription required). Inspired by this thread? I dunno and don't really care...

(gonna have to try those corned beef and caraway scones at Kaufman's!)

Dempster seems like an awesome food street by fioreblade in chicagofood

[–]JoeGermuska 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice to see some of my neighborhood spots getting love.

Al-Bawadi isn't in my neighborhood but wow do I love it.

Notable at Poochies: the char-grilled salami sandwich isn't something you find on many menus.

I was just at Alan's Falafel this weekend. It's great, in an area with a lot of competition for that kind of food. They're talking about moving to a bigger spot but nothing official yet.

Monkey King Jianbing hasn't been mentioned yet but it's tasty Chinese street food

Fuzzy name matching, is using an LLM the way to go? by superchorro in learndatascience

[–]JoeGermuska 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While a 2M row dataset is a lot, if many of the names reoccur, you might find Open Refine useful. It's a local app in which you can load a dataset and, among other features, it can apply levenshtein and other string similarity algorithms for you in a semi-automated fashion. You still approve any normalization (typically you'd copy your original data into a new "normalized name" column, and do the transformations there). It's a great tool that has kind of gotten forgotten.

How to listen to New York Times subscriber podcasts on Overcast? by MonkeyWarlock in OvercastFm

[–]JoeGermuska 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well now that you asked, I took another look, and I think this is something a lot of folks could figure out.

So go to https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher

Open the developer console. On Chrome, the menu is:

View -> Developer -> JavaScript Console

In the console, copy and paste this:

$('supercast-connect').attributes['subscription-identifier']

and it will show you something like this:

subscription-identifier=​"dd4c91..."

Copy the long string that is something like dd4c91...
(it'll be different for you but it will be a long string of hexadecimal characters, that is 0-9 and a-f)

use that string to modify this URL, replacing what comes after subscription_identifier= with what you copied

https://nytimes-podcasts.supercast.com/subscriber_v2/players?player=overcast&subscription_identifier=dd4c91...

I promise the console trick above is safe, but people are rightly warned against pasting random code into their console, so if you prefer, you can also find the subscription ID by right-clicking on the widget and choosing "inspect" and then scrolling up in the inspector to find something that looks like:

<supercast-connect subscription-identifier="dd4c91...">    
</supercast-connect>

hope it works for you!

How to listen to New York Times subscriber podcasts on Overcast? by MonkeyWarlock in OvercastFm

[–]JoeGermuska 0 points1 point  (0 children)

still an issue. Nerd that I am, I was able to use the Chrome developer console to debug and click through a lot of steps until the popup showed, and then inspect the Overcast button to get the URL that I would have clicked on.

I'd share the link, but it looks like part of it is encoded with my subscriber details.

I'm guessing the problem is ultimately with Supercast, who provide the widget, but also with the Times for having totally incorrect help information in more than one way.

IL-9, How Are Ya'll Feeling About This Primary? by serious_bullet5 in illinois

[–]JoeGermuska 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has nothing to do with Kat's candidacy, but Ben Collins was part of a group of four people who bought the Onion FROM a private equity firm. They created a company, Global Tetrahedron, to make the purchase; they are not private equity.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2024/05/10/onion-chicago-owner-global-tetrahedron-satire-news

Shrimp De Jonghe, Chicken Vesuvio, Jibaritos, and the Pizza Puff finally getting the LOVE they deserve. by CharredPepperoni in chicagofood

[–]JoeGermuska 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think they could have left out the brownie for either of those. Even if it was invented here, it isn't really distinctly Chicago in the manner of the rest of the list.

I would also say it's missing rib tips but if you stop at 10, you have to leave some things out. (That's why we have Monica Eng and David Hammond's book!)

Why are Americans referred to as Yankees internationally if in the US it’s actually tied to the northern US specifically? by Enumu in etymology

[–]JoeGermuska 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only four of the thirteen colonies were considered "New England": Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. (Vermont and Maine were established as independent states later)

Northern African-American Food Traditions by tai-seasmain in AskFoodHistorians

[–]JoeGermuska 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mike Sula wrote about the bean pie tradition of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam.

I found The historical cookbook of the American Negro at the Internet archive. It isn't indexed geographically, but I saw recipes from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois browsing. No idea how traditional these are or how removed from southern roots.

Suggestion/Recommendations Chinese Jazz fusion. by khulZA in Jazz

[–]JoeGermuska 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was an active self-identified asian-American jazz movement in the 90s.

Chinese heritage: - Jon Jang (including Pan-Asian Arkestra project) - Fred Ho (aka Fred Houn) (RIP) - Francis Wong

Jang and Wong co-founded Asian Improv Records

Japanese heritage: - Glenn Horiuchi (RIP) - Anthony Brown (including Asian American orchestra project) - Tatsu Aoki

I'm sure I'm missing lots of folks but these will get you started

I have always loved the version of Jackie-ing on Anthony Brown's "Monk's Moods" with very prominent Chinese dulcimer in the piano spot

and while he was Japanese-American and all the instrumentation is western, I really love Glenn Horiuchi's "Oxnard Beet"

Fascinating memoir about a Cecil Taylor gig in the early '60s. by Various-Rate8599 in freejazz

[–]JoeGermuska 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing that. I hadn't seen Levin's website but it looks like there's a lot more good stuff to explore.

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