Finally, after many years of waiting and wanting, my flagship station, WRAX-Birmingham (The X at 100.5), is streaming again on the web ( ). Now, you can listen to my live three-hour show each Sunday ...

ELGIN — Elgin’s newest business, Jazz Shepherd, may be the place for you to relax with a cup of coffee and listen to any jazz record spanning all the way back to the genre’s inception in the 1910s.

For 40-plus years, the Neutral Ground Coffee House has identified as a “coffee house” rather than a “coffee shop.” “At a coffee shop, you buy your coffee and leave, or get on your computer and read,” ...