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Seven Days in Chicago
Columbia College dives into "Battlestar Galactica" + Do It Your Damn Self National Youth and Film Festival picks three Chicago kids
(2008-11-24)
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Presents 2008
A most peculiar holiday guide and gift rap
Have Yourself a Local Little Christmas…
(2008-11-24)
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Affirmative Action Art
Black performs for white at Lyric’s long-awaited “Porgy and Bess”
Two weeks after a Hyde Park resident became elected the first-ever African-American president, another less significant but still fascinating cultural watershed occurred across town at Lyric Opera: the first-ever performance of George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” in the company’s fifty-four-year history
(2008-11-24)
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Back Up to Big Buns
Newly named Sahara Kabob boasts passion and talent
I like Big Buns and I cannot lie. Though, as with foie gras, Alderman Joe Moore apparently does not. According to a recent local story by Martha Bayne about Sahara Kabob, the artist formerly known as Big Buns and Pita restaurant, Moore asked the owners to take down their pseudo-Vegas like marquee in favor of a more “genteel” awning
(2008-11-24)
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Wrap the Words
Ten books that would make fine gifts
Not long ago publishing’s wise old heads bet we would be so preoccupied with defibrillating the American dream at the polls in 2008 we wouldn’t have time to dream in fiction
(2008-11-24)
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Hermit Houle
Marc Houle helps change the face of global techno
His biography describes him as unassuming. Numerous interviews pegged him as detached and preoccupied. Marc Houle is coming to Chicago, and his recent production efforts suggest not an inwardly focused ponderer, but a dance-crazed whiz in the studio
(2008-11-24)
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The Gates of Bell
Daniel Bell brings his minimal techno to Sonotheque
For pioneering the sound of stripped-down minimal techno, Daniel Bell has been called an innovator. For sharing his love of underground music around the globe for twenty years, he has been called an educator. When he works, he is meticulous and focused, performing with a quiet dignity not often seen in DJs of his caliber. Bell kindly took the time to answer a few questions about his recent achievements
(2008-11-24)
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Soundcheck
All Grown Up
Juliana Hatfield’s biggest strength has always been her voice. It works against convention—the breathy, seemingly unstable delivery has been battling her alt-rock symphonies for more than two decades
(2008-11-24)
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