Thursday, September 30, 2010
Crickets Music Early Warnings Roundup
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 09.30.10 at 11:00 AM
- David Holloway
- Dismemberment Plan
In other news, the annual Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival at the Congress Theater celebrates its third year by expanding into a three-day event and hosting shows at Double Door and Lincoln Hall. Only a few acts have been confirmed thus far, including headliners Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. I can only assume that some bluegrass and/or blues will appear in the lineup at some point.
Highlights this week also include Raekwon at the Logan Square Auditorium, Vincent Gallo's Rriiccee at Lincoln Hall, Mavis Staples at Park West, and a New Year's Eve show with Yeasayer and Health at Metro.
As usual, check out the rest of my list after the jump:
Style Fashion Events This Weekend
Posted by Heather Kenny on 09.30.10 at 10:51 AM
- calvinklein.com
- A look from the Calvin Klein fall 2010 collection, featured at a downtown popup shop through next week.
Read on for more events:
Bad News From the Past We're Old The Devil Inside Me
Posted by Cliff Doerksen on 09.30.10 at 09:35 AM
Chicagoland Visual Art Morning Art: Leonid Kozlov
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.30.10 at 08:27 AM
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Chicagoland Politics Clout City Prof. Galt Sings a Bit of Workin' Man Blues
Posted by Whet Moser on 09.29.10 at 01:29 PM
This is from over a week ago, but I missed it while in the mountains, which is a damn shame. Basically, a University of Chicago law school professor posted some poutrage about our Marxian (his word, not mine) president. The subject of his fine whine: how difficult it is to make ends meet for a law prof/doctor couple making low-medium six figures living in an expensive house—a couple blocks from the president, which I assume to mean Kenwood, which contains some of the best housing stock in Chicago—while employing a lawn service, housecleaner, and nanny, and spending $60k on education and day care for three children while living under historically low tax rates for the wealthy.
Ezra Klein, Brad DeLong, and Michael O'Hare do a fine job pointing out that the professor needs to help himself to a steaming cup of shut the fuck up. But they still missed the thing I found most offensive.
Music Post No Bills Free Jazz for a Fee on the Web
Posted by Peter Margasak on 09.29.10 at 01:24 PM
Bad News From the Past We're Old Release The Hounds!
Posted by Cliff Doerksen on 09.29.10 at 09:22 AM
Chicagoland Visual Art Morning Art: Felix Benoist
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.29.10 at 08:02 AM
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Chicagoland Media This Is Why We Can't Have Anything Nice/This Is Why I Go On Vacation
Posted by Whet Moser on 09.28.10 at 06:09 PM
I was almost completely off the Internets last week, which meant that while I wasn't able to completely miss the shitfit between Chicago Now and Time Out Chicago, I at least got to avoid it while it was going on, which was awesome.
Megan Cottrell provides the story, but in short: CN blogger wrote a thing. TOC prez/EIC Frank Sennett began a dispassionate and thoughtful discussion of whether it was racist. Chicago Now removed the post. Everyone went home angry. No one really addressed what was actually going on in the original post.
Music Post No Bills Claudia Quintet in Palos Park Wednesday
Posted by Peter Margasak on 09.28.10 at 06:07 PM
- Claudia Quintet With Gary Versace
