Saturday, July 31, 2010
Chicagoland Food Chain Film Music Food & Drink Dinner & a Show: Saturday 7/31
Posted by Whet Moser on 07.31.10 at 12:27 PM
Music
Show: Night Beats If the hype over Pitchfork and Lollapalooza has left you with little more than a low-level desire to own a Toyota or an unexplained craving for energy drinks, the post-psych glaze of Night Beats can sonically squeegee your heart, mind, and soul. This Seattle three-piece pairs hypnotic ooga-booga drums with the sort of incredible howling guitar solos you only wish you could be subjected to at Guitar Center.
10 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 866-468-3401, emptybottle.com, $8.
Dinner: A Tavola Tiny Ukrainian Village storefront with an equally tiny but satisfying Italian menu and, arguably, the best gnocchi in town.
2148 W. Chicago Ave., 773-276-7567, atavolachicago.com
Friday, July 30, 2010
Bicycling Cycling B-Cycle Launches in Chicago
Posted by Julia Thiel on 07.30.10 at 05:27 PM
Visual Art Free Shit Swag 7/31 — Free Seminar on Japanese Woodblock Prints
Posted by Robin Peterson on 07.30.10 at 05:20 PM
- Katsushika Hokuasai's "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" (1830)
Music Post No Bills New Guitar Music at the Hideout Tonight
Posted by Peter Margasak on 07.30.10 at 04:14 PM
- Travis Bird and Dan Burke
His curatorial side gets another airing via an excellent new vinyl-only release called Offstrings. Burke is one of four guitarists on the collection, and all of them will be performing tonight at the Hideout in celebration of the release.
Free Shit Food & Drink Swag 7/31 — Free Beerfest at Whole Foods
Posted by Robin Peterson on 07.30.10 at 04:04 PM
- EDWIN.BAUTISTA @ FLICKR.COM
Crickets Music The Best of the Rest
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 07.30.10 at 03:40 PM
- Todd Roeth
- Cotton Jones
This week's List of course has its fair share of recommendations, and there's also the great lineup at Wicker Park Fest to keep in mind. But in a city this big, you can always find more shows that warrant attention. Check out my day-by-day breakdown of the week's other notable happenings after the jump:
Chicagoland Media Politics Clout City Mick Dumke: New Job, Same Great Aldermanic Quotes
Posted by Whet Moser on 07.30.10 at 02:43 PM
Much as I already miss Mick Dumke, at least I still get to read him:
Sixth Ward alderman Freddrenna Lyle wondered if food would be sold in the wee hours of the night “so people can have something to eat to absorb that liquor.”
Chicagoland Food Chain Lit & Lectures Film Music Food & Drink Performing Arts Arts Books Dinner & a Show: Friday 7/30
Posted by Whet Moser on 07.30.10 at 02:38 PM
- Spike & Mike Present New Generation Animation
Show: Spike & Mike Present New Generation Animation "These 19 short animations place a lower premium on grotesquery than the usual "Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation" package—most of them would be rated PG—but the artistic quality is as high as I remember from the Spike & Mike imprimatur in its heyday," writes Cliff Doerksen.
Midnight, Music Box, 3733 N. Southport Ave., 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre.com
Dinner: Cafe Orchid "When Kurt Serpin says he’s cooking Ottoman cuisine, he doesn’t mean the extravagant feasts of the sultans, but he is talking about the traditional Turkish cuisine that evolved from the sultans’ expansive palace kitchens," writes Mike Sula.
1746 W. Addison St., 773-327-3808, cafeorchid.com
Crickets Music The Gray Lady Gets Into the Gutters
Posted by Miles Raymer on 07.30.10 at 01:53 PM
By far the classiest thing that's ever happened to the Fireside Bowl is being profiled in the New York Times. The punk landmark has cleaned up its act considerably since owner Jim Lapinski committed the blasphemy of renovating it in 2004, turning it back into an actual functional bowling alley, but House Call talent buyer and all-around great guy John Benetti has brought music back to the Fireside—albeit not for the first time and still on a much smaller scale than during the place's glory days. Benetti booked the current summer series, which so far is just Tuesday nights.
Speaking for Chicago music journalists, I have to say it's nice to see that Brian Peterson of MP Productions—who booked God knows how many shows at the Fireside during its heyday—is just as unwilling to talk to the Times as he is to humble local rags.
Chicagoland Politics Clout City When the Budget Is Blighted...
Posted by Whet Moser on 07.30.10 at 01:19 PM
...even the mayor's budget director starts floating the idea of tapping TIFs. It's a question Progress Illinois has been analyzing.
