Where is electra from q101

You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. Sophia, Electra, and Alexander. On Wednesday Alexander and Sophia asked if we could go to the Q Sure, why not?

This is the radio station we have been listening to since we moved to the Chicago area 13 years ago from Kansas. We got up Thursday, took the train downtown, walked over a mile to the Merchandise Mart, and peeked in on Electra , the midday host all three of us generally listen to together in the car. It was fun. Like the Finnie Balls, today's ballroom competitions are partly a response to the fact that poor, black, gay kids have few places where they can mix with Chicago's broader gay community.

Recent violence and protests in Boys Town suggest that that community is as racially and economically segregated as the rest of the city. But with segregation comes congregation, and balls are where gay black kids can find one another. It's a fascinating story of how the city's interracial drag balls of the ss merged with the New York-born art of voguing into a competitive dance style and community. It's at the Harris Theater tonight at pm.

He could test the epiphany. Photograph: Joe C. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. I did my first overnight in December of and learned everything I could from there.

Matt Grasso initially hired me to do nights and production at The Buzz. I was also the receptionist from p. So it was chaotic at times and bitterly cold at others, but ultimately a great place to learn how to juggle responsibilities and embrace unexpected challenges. We are extremely proud of the on-air talent we've assembled at NOW We have no syndicated shows, and we have live jocks on the weekends. NOW is a special challenge for me since it's the first Top 40 I've ever worked at, but Tommy has been terrific about letting me be myself, without changing my approach.

Drew Patterson, who voices our station and does imaging for both us and This is also the first time I've ever been part of a station launch. So that makes it very different from the established stations I've worked at in the past.

We're all motivated to make something new and different and better every day. As a brand new station, we know we're facing an uphill battle to change people's listening habits.

So we do as much as we can do be both live and local. We did pool party broadcasts every weekend in August and hung out at movie theaters every Friday night in September. We designed a bi-weekly video series that featured local landmarks "Car Talk" , and we have another one in the works that will take place at local bars you guessed it Emmis St. Louis is deeply committed to giving back to our community, so we volunteered at the St.

Louis Area Foodbank with our sister stations I still love the feeling of sharing a brand new song that I really like, knowing that a listener is hearing it for the first time. NOW I'm a fan of X Ambassadors, so when I first played "Renegades" back in June - early for Top 40 - that was a wonderful feeling.

Playing the new Adele song for the first time gave me chills. Those are neat moments for me.