Monday, January 21, 2013
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Mon 1/21: Freakwater, Fresh Meat's Cleave, and "Yuck!"
Posted by Drew Hunt today at 06.12 AM
Alt-country duo Freakwater perform at the Hideout, their first appearance in Chicago in seven years. They haven't cut a new album since 2005, so attendees can expect to hear material from their 1994 LP Feels Like the Third Time, but never fear: "The distinctive weave of their voices, broken in after so many years like a favorite pair of jeans—[Janet] Bean's is refined, [Catherine] Irwin's relatively coarse—will make it feel like no time at all has passed," says Peter Margasak.
The Inconvenience's staged reading series, Fresh Meat, presents Cleave, a fantasy about conjoined twin girls, bound together by their hair, whose lives are turned upside down when one of them falls in love.
At Saki, screen-printed work from Delicious Design League is collected in an exhibition called "Yuck!"
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Sports News Stan Musial lived fully in Saint Louis
Posted by Michael Miner on 01.20.13 at 02:04 PM
In this regard, Musial was not unique then and he would not be unique now. But he'd come a lot closer.
Weekly Top Five Weekly Top Five: The trouble with never having seen Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry
Posted by Drew Hunt on 01.20.13 at 12:00 PM
Thankfully, I've seen the good majority of his oeuvre—how such a major work as The Trouble With Harry has evaded me, your guess is as good as mine—so I figure why not share my top five favorite Hitchcock films. Check it out after the jump.
Books Foreign Arts Reading Alone in Berlin in Berlin
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on 01.20.13 at 09:00 AM
I do have friends there. And I was happy to have a new Fallada novel, having been in thrall of his writing since I first read his brilliant and devastating autobiographical novel The Drinker, which was composed by Fallada while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. It haunted my dreams.
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Sun 1/20: Vintage Garage, screamo band Underoath, and a new dance revue
Posted by Drew Hunt on 01.20.13 at 06:00 AM
The Vintage Garage hosts one of its seasonal sales, in which antiquers and spendthrifts alike can root around for the perfect piece.
At the Metro, screamo mainstays Underoath perform as part of their farewell tour. The band recently released a compilation album, Anthology: 1999-2013, collecting notable tracks and featuring "the hard-hitting hooks and growled vocals of their early days with glistening guitar and clean ballad singing," according to Leor Galil.
Margi Cole, artistic director and founder of the Dance COLEctive, presents a new revue titled "Free/Bound," which features the premiere of two original pieces: In Orderly Fashion and Leaving and Wanting.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Band Life Music Tape it or leave it: Considering the cassette release
Posted by Andrea Bauer on 01.19.13 at 09:00 AM
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Sat 1/19: Winter Bike Swap, Soul Summit turns three, and the last days of Fillet of Solo
Posted by Drew Hunt on 01.19.13 at 06:00 AM
- Kevin Davis
- Sweat Girls
Inclement weather has yet to deter the Winter Bike Swap—and in a winter that can adequately be described as creepily mild, that trend looks to continue. Both year-round cyclists and fair-weather pedalers are welcome to stop by Harper College and see what's what.
The third anniversary of Soul Summit goes down at Double Door. DJs Sloppy White, Dave Mata, and Duke Grip will be in attendance, spinning tunes so you and your friends can shake and shiver and slide around on the sweat-soaked dance floor like it's 1966.
If you've yet to check out Fillet of Solo, "Chicago's long-lived storytelling and Live Lit scene," there are only a few days left to do so. Check out our sidebar for more information.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Do This Music Deep into disco with a Tom Moulton mix
Posted by Miles Raymer on 01.18.13 at 04:36 PM
Food Chain Food & Drink Eat better with lotus petals and other food news bites
Posted by Mike Sula on 01.18.13 at 03:32 PM
• A developer with a sadistic definition of "interesting" wants to attract more chains to Lakeview, reports DNAinfo.
• Neil Steinberg pens the obit for his perennial column subject Harry Heftman of Harry's Hot Dogs.
• Chicagoist talks with the owners of Honey Butter Fried Chicken on their quest to find a space.
• The indomitable Mark Smrecek smokes kimchi at From Belly To Bacon.
• Lottie + Doof makes strange-flavor eggplant.
• The Local Beet has the goods on how to apply for a Wisconsin cheesemaking scholarship.
Foreign Film Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part one
Posted by Ben Sachs on 01.18.13 at 03:01 PM
