Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Chicagoland Do You Want to Make Tea at the BBC?
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Whoever is posting these jobs is grossly misinformed as to the nature of rock stardom. Or accounting. Or both.
The use of "rock star" has truly ceased to have any meaning in job descriptions (via @triblive). "Dynamo? Rockstar? Badass? Sound like you?"
Um... do I have to take a drug test? If so, which outcome is considered failing?
Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills Chicago Goes West Makes a Stop in Chicago
Posted by Peter Margasak on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Chicago Goes West
Politics, Clout City, News Spreading the privatization gospel
Posted by Mick Dumke on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Citizens in other cities may want to take note of the recent news about parking around here because it’s increasingly clear that the architects of Chicago’s parking meter privatization are spreading their gospel around the country.
Chicagoland, Food Chain, Politics, Food & Drink At Least Their Convictions Aren't Dissuaded By Bad Press
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:24 PM
The city cracks down on Kitchen Chicago a second time.
Lit & Lectures Panel Discussion on "The State of the Independent Bookstore"
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Three Chicago-area independent bookstore owners—Roberta Rubin of the Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Augie Aleksy of Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore in Forest Park, and Allison Platt of Bookie's Paperbacks & More on West 103rd—discuss their businesses at a Society of Midland Authors program tonight at 7 PM at the Cliff Dwellers Club.
It's free to attend.
Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Food & Drink Dinner & a Show: Tuesday 2/9 (New Restaurants Edition)
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- James Kennedy
Show: Funny Ha-Ha Loves You Readings and performances by James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish), comedian Cameron Esposito, Poetry magazine associate editor Fred Sasaki, and poet Robbie Q. Telfer (Spiking the Sucker Punch), along with short films by Steve Delahoyde. Claire Zulkey (An Off Year) hosts.
6:30-8pm, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave., 773-227-4433 or 866-468-3401, $5 suggested donation to benefit Neighborhood Writing Alliance.
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). One of several restaurants that are too new to review.
1840 W. North Ave., 773-342-1840
Chicagoland, Politics They Fought the Law
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM
Republicans who are currently campaigning against law enforcement - a comparatively new historical phenomenon that President Zombie Reagan would disapprove of - should consider how quickly Mark Kirk had to backpedal on Thomson when the state refused to panic, not to mention their potential bedfellows ("Lynch Holder!").
Politics, Clout City, News Great Reformers Think Alike
Posted by Mick Dumke on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Thanks to Isaac Carothers, citizens are losing faith in city government.
"I think after the Carothers issue, people are losing confidence in government," Mayor Daley said yesterday, according to the Tribune. "It broke the camel's back."
The camel was apparently in fine health before Carothers pleaded guilty to bribery and tax evasion last week, becoming the latest local elected official to run afoul of the feds.
The camel wasn't at all affected by Daley's complete co-opting of the City Council, his use of patronage workers to bully opponents and win elections, the Duff scandal, the Hired Truck scandal, the illegal hiring scandal, his support for the installation of Todd Stroger as county board president, the decline of city services, the festering murder problem, the deterioration of the CTA, the deterioration of the city parks, the privatization of public space, the privatization of the public schools, the sale of the parking meters, or the use of taxpayer money to subsidize profitable corporations while the rest of us are trying to pay our property taxes or rent.
Chicagoland, Music, Free Shit Cheap Classical: Sibelius 5 and Free Ensemble Shows
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:43 AM
One of the best deals in town are tickets to the Civic Orchestra performances at Orchestra Hall - monthly free performances (well, $1.00 seat fee) featuring guest artists and conductors. The next one, on March 8, features young Leo McFall, who served as Bernard Haitink's assistant, conducting Sibelius's 5th Symphony; tickets are still available, if you need a super-cheap Valentine's Day present. If you want more background on Sibelius, the great Alex Ross's essay "Apparition In the Woods: Rescuing Sibelius from silence" is a good start:
Joy is not the same thing as simplicity. The Fifth begins and ends in crystalline major-key tonality, but it is a staggeringly unconventional work. The schemata of sonata form dissolve before the listener’s ears; in place of a methodical development of well-defined themes, there is a gradual, incremental evolution of material through trancelike repetitions. The musicologist James Hepokoski, in a monograph on the symphony, calls it “rotational form”; the principal ideas of the work come around again and again, though each time they are transformed in ways both small and large. The themes really assume their true shape only at the end of the rotation—what Hepokoski calls the “telos,” the epiphanic goal. Music becomes a search for meaning within an open-ended structure—an analogue to the spiritual life.
If $1.00 is too rich for your blood, the Civic Orchestra also plays regular completely free ensemble gigs throughout the city, usually on a schedule of two or three different ensembles every week or two; check the CSO calendar for details. The woodwind ensemble plays the National Museum of Mexican Art next Friday; the brass ensemble plays Gage Park the same day.
Film, Free Shit The Will to Survive
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Working on Walmart commercials in Savannah, Chicago advertising executives Al Hawkins and Kathleen M. Humphries became intrigued with the Gullah/Geechee people who live on several islands on the south Atlantic coast, retaining the closest linguistic and cultural ties to Africa found in the U.S.
Hawkins and Humphries spotlight Sapelo Island, off the coast of Georgia, site of the most intact Gullah/Geechee culture, in their documentary The Will to Survive: The Story of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
It screens for free, Tuesday 2/9 at Noon at Kennedy King College.
