Monday, May 31, 2010
Chicagoland Memorial Day: "Losing the War"
Posted by Whet Moser on 05.31.10 at 03:45 PM
His father opened his mouth to answer — and then his jaw worked, his face reddened, and, without saying a word, he got up and walked out of the room. That's the truth about the war: the sense that what happened over there simply can't be told in the language of peace.
It's sort of a Memorial Day tradition for me to remind you to read Lee Sandlin's essay Losing the War, an essay that originally appeared in two parts in the Reader. An abridged version appeared on This American Life.
Chicagoland Music Free Shit Swag 5/31: Free Hum Reunion Show at Millennium Park
Posted by Whet Moser on 05.31.10 at 02:43 PM
Shoegazy, beloved downstate alt-rock veterans Hum play a free show at 6:30pm tonight in Millennium Park. Here's video of them back when they/we/Conan was/were young.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Chicagoland Food Chain Film Music Food & Drink Performing Arts Arts Dinner & a Show: Sunday 5/30
Posted by Whet Moser on 05.30.10 at 01:16 PM
- Eleventh Dream Day
Show: Eleventh Dream Day "In advance of the sessions for what's scheduled to be their first album in five years, Eleventh Dream Day have been stoking the fires by playing the same ten new songs (and a shifting selection of oldies) at the Hideout almost every Sunday this month," writes Bill Meyer. "Tonight's concert, the fourth and last in the series, should be one for the ages."
8:30 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433 or 866-468-3401, hideoutchicago.com, $8.
Dinner: The Southern The former Chaise Lounge is now the Southern, a more casual bar and restaurant featuring the regional cuisine of chef Cary Taylor (Blackbird, Ambria, Avenues).
1840 W. North Ave., 773-342-1840, thesouthernchicago.com
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Chicagoland Music Free Shit Swag Saki Grand Opening: White Mystery, DJ Ken Vandermark & More
Posted by Whet Moser on 05.29.10 at 02:16 PM
* The other one is the "science fiction, fantasy, horror bookstore and vinyl store" Bucket o' Blood Books and Records (2307 N. Milwaukee), which opens Friday, June 4.
Chicagoland Performing Arts Arts Neo-Futurists and Theatre Oobleck Collaboration This Evening at Steppenwolf
Posted by Whet Moser on 05.29.10 at 12:18 PM
It's got a good pedigree, with Neo-Futurist founder Greg Allen and Oobleck founder Danny Thompson, and if the title is any indication, it'll be a doozy:
5pm, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., 312-335-1650, steppenwolf.org, $15 or pay what you can
Chicagoland Food Chain Film Music Food & Drink Performing Arts Arts Dinner & a Show: Saturday 5/29
Posted by Whet Moser on 05.29.10 at 12:02 PM
- drew reynolds
- Andre Williams
Show: Andre Williams, Dirty Diamonds "Soul singer Andre Williams has worked in music for more than 50 years as a performer, producer, and songwriter, and cut his teeth at legendary labels like Fortune, Motown, One-derful, and Chess. He's been there, done that, and wiped up the mess with the T-shirt," writes Monica Kendrick. "But his comeback, now well into its second decade, isn't just a campaign to market his 60s greatness to a new crowd. Williams, 73, still has it, and people still love it." Locals the Dirty Diamonds open.
10 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, 773-525-2508, schubas.com $14, $12 in advance.
Dinner: Andalous Casual Moroccan restaurant; Hadg Mohamad plays host while his wife, Rachida, does the cooking at this Lakeview spot with garden seating.
3307 N. Clark St., 773-281-6885, andalous.com
Friday, May 28, 2010
You Shoot Chicagoland You Shoot: Consent Fest
Posted by Whet Moser on 05.28.10 at 07:10 PM
From the Reader's Lauri Apple:
Film I Lost It at the Movies
Posted by Cliff Doerksen on 05.28.10 at 05:01 PM
Lit & Lectures Books Chris Ware Gets the Scholarly Treatment
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on 05.28.10 at 04:18 PM
For sure. The book contains such chapters as "The Limits of Realism: Alternative Comics and Middlebrow Aesthetics in the Anthologies of Chris Ware" and "Masked Fathers: Jimmy Corrigan and the Superheroic Legacy."
What the self-effacing Ware might think of this treatment can be found in this passage from the chapter called "Chris Ware's Failures" by editor David M. Ball:
Crickets Music Gilding the LOL-y
Posted by Miles Raymer on 05.28.10 at 03:57 PM
Here's that ironic twee-pop cover of the Insane Clown Posse's "Miracles" you've been waiting for:
