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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
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
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
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- 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
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Fri 1/18: Bingo Night Fund Raiser, Dolphin Reopens, and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Posted by Katie Kather on 01.18.13 at 06:08 AM
Bingo night has moved out of the nursing home and into Wicker Park/Bucktown. 826CHI is hosting a Bingo Night Fund Raiser for the Chicago Zine Fest with opportunities to win prizes from Threadless and Intelligentsia. The event is BYOB.
Wicker Park nightclub Green Dolphin reopens Friday with a performance by Crystal Method and a new name: Dolphin.
And anyone who likes to belt out Grace Potter's Stars (or is it just me?) can see her tonight with the Nocturnals and Langhorne Slim at the Riviera Theatre.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Do This Things I Hate Things I Love News Have a juicy tale of romantic woe? We want to hear it!
Posted by Reader staff on 01.17.13 at 03:30 PM
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Send your submissions to vday@chicagoreader.com by midnight on Sun 1/27.
Do This Music Best shows to see: Magic Trick, Meek Mill, Underoath, Tomorrow Never Knows
Posted by Philip Montoro on 01.17.13 at 02:09 PM
Reader writers also weighed in on Hundred Waters (opening for Freelance Whales on Sat 1/19 at Lincoln Hall) and the Black Madonna (who plays Sat 1/19 at the Hideout, after a non-TNK show at Smart Bar), and they've only scratched the surface of the fest: just for starters, Ssion's set opening for Niki & the Dove (Fri 1/18 at Lincoln Hall) is sure to be ridiculously fabulous and fabulously ridiculous, and King Dude (opening for Chelsea Wolfe at Schubas on Sat 1/19) turns up in In Rotation this week as one of the picks by Alma Negra guitarist and front woman Erin Page.
Of course, even in January one festival can't monopolize all the good concerts happening in Chicago, and as always we've got more for you on our Soundboard page. Highlights after the jump:
Do This Music A chill Portishead remix and a very unchill Skrillex incident
Posted by Miles Raymer on 01.17.13 at 01:23 PM
But it's entirely possible that you aren't all the way there yet, which would be perfectly understandable. Today's kind of just a regular old Thursday in January, which after the frantic pace of the holidays (and the couple of weeks of socially accepted goldbricking that follows it) can seem even less exciting than a typical almost-end-of-the-week.
In that case I suggest hitting the jump to check out two videos that I think might help you get there, wherever the there is you need to go. One is a remix from 1996 of Aaliyah's "If Your Girl Only Knew," based around a sample of Portishead's "Numb" and featuring a guest verse by Missy "Still Not Giving Us That Comeback She Promised" Elliott that bumps nicely even if you're not a big 90s nostalgic type. The other video is of Skrillex accidentally lighting his hair on fire. Thursday just got a whole lot more inspiring.
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Thu 1/17: Sweet Home Chicago: The History of America's Candy Capital, Cadre, and Willy Mason
Posted by Katie Kather on 01.17.13 at 06:08 AM
Chicago's history has more to offer than a great fire, political corruption, and feuding baseball teams. The city that works also used to have a booming candy industry. The exhibit, "Sweet Home Chicago: The History of America's Candy Capital," is currently running at Harold Washington Library Center's Special Collections Exhibit Hall.
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is currently showing Cadre, a play about Apartheid-era South Africa.
Folk and country singer-songwriter Willy Mason will perform live at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Wed 1/16: Tomorrow Never Knows, Greetings from the Holy City, and God vs. Hall & Oates
Posted by Katie Kather on 01.16.13 at 06:07 AM
The citywide indie-rock fest Tomorrow Never Knows kicks off this evening at multiple locations—Schubas, Lincoln Hall, and Smart Bar among them. This year, the fest will incorporate "indie hip-hop, outlandish dance, and other not-so-yawny subgenres of music." Tonight's highlights: Bear in Heaven, Born Ruffians, and Supreme Cuts.
"Greetings From the Holy City," a show of photographs by Jason Reblando of contemporary residents of North Lawndale, is currently on display at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum alongside an exhibit on the Conservative Vice Lords, who were active in the neighborhood in the 1960s.
If you've ever wondered who is more powerful, God or Hall & Oates, the Drinking and Writing Theatre at Haymarket Pub & Brewery might have some answers for you. "The answer, if you can call it that, comes in the form of seven inane challenges, including an oatmeal-eating contest and a surprisingly captivating game of Jenga. A few gripping personal monologues constitute the best things about the show," according to Keith Griffith.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
