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Arts & Culture, On Culture Dec 21, 2018
Tired of solicitations from big nonprofits? We have just the solution for you!

With the Executive Pay Test, it’s easier than ever to decide which group deserves your hard-earned cash!
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Arts nonprofits, executive salaries, seasonal donations, executive pay test, Northwestern University, Morton Schapiro, salary creep, Lyric Opera, Anthony Freud, Sir Andrew Davis, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jeff Alexander, Riccardo Muti, MCA, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Goodman Theatre, Roche Schulfer, Chicago Shakespeare, Criss Henderson, Barbara Gaines, Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls, Art Institute, James Rondeau, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bau Graves

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 11, 2018
Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Quantum Englewood, Ernest Dawkins, Rahul Sharma, Old Town School of Folk Music, Live the Spirit Residency, Music Moves Chicago, Joyce Foundation, Lindblom Academy, Ben LaMar Gay, Maggie Brown, Funkadesi, AACM, Live the Spirit Jazz Ensemble, Fernando Jones’s Blues Kids, Soul Children Gospel Choir, Bucket Boys, Devin Shaffer, Yarrow, Cluster, Manic Static, Cut Worms, Max Clarke, Hollow Ground, At Home, Jagjaguwar, Dumpster Tapes, Schubas

Music, In Rotation Jul 24, 2018
Video
R&B artist Jordanna on burning down the patriarchy, then getting a manicure

Plus: Violinist and composer Lucy Little on French-Cuban twins who’ll get you moving, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on a posthumous reissue by an amazing Senegalese griot, and more
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: In Rotation, Aby Ngana Diop, Liital, Senegal, taasukat, taasu, mbalax, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Body Void, I Live Inside a Burning House, Will Ryan, Old Town School, Old Town School of Folk Music, workshops, percussion, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, Lucy Little, Sampha, Process, Blood on Me, (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano, Ibeyi, River, Ólafur Arnalds, Eulogy for Evolution, Thalia Hall, Jordanna, Kari Faux, Insecure, Lost en Los Angeles, Nai Palm, Needle Paw, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jason Guwanbal Gurruwiwi, the Internet, Ego Death, Special Affair, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2018
Conjuring a cuddly spirit on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was created by Jay Ryan of the Bird Machine.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Jay Ryan, the Bird Machine, Mountain Goats, Old Town School of Folk Music

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
Hairspray at Pritzker Pavilion and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

The film A Quiet Place and more goings-on 6/4-6/7.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Film, lillie mae, szold hall, old town school of folk music, brandee younger, lyon & Healy harps, mdou moctar, tuareg, maurer hall, hairspray, john waters, pritzker pavilion, millennium park, jiri trnka, gene siskel film center, a quiet place, John Krasinski, having our say, goodman theatre, Monsieur d’Éon Is a Woman

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2017
The Reader’s Made in Chicago Holiday Market, and more of the best things to do this weekend

Christmas and Winter Beer Festival at Delilah's, and more goings-on about town the weekend of December 1-3
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, pine, uncommon ground, made in chicago holiday market, winter beer festival, delilahs, the revival, t murph, faded, interview show, mark bazer, old town school of folk music, jessica easto, read it and eat, craft coffee

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2017
The Old Town School turns 60 and celebrates with a podcast

The venerable folk-music school shares stories from its own colorful history.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: History, Music, Old Town School of Folk Music, Mareva Lindo, Win Stracke, Frank Hamilton, Ella Jenkins, ethnomusicology, Gerry Armstrong, George Armstrong, Rebecca Armstrong

Music, Music Feature Nov 8, 2017
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Sights to see at CIMMfest

The Chicago International Movies & Music Festival makes its November debut with feature films about David Bowie, queer punk, New Orleans piano, gospel quartets, Ozzfest, Malian traditional music, and lots more.
- By Leor Galil, Peter Margasak, J.R. Jones, Tal Rosenberg, Luca Cimarusti, Jamie Ludwig, and Reece Pendleton
- Tags: Music Feature, CIMMfest, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, movies, festival, CIMMfest Spring Fling Thing, We Sold Our Souls for Rock ’n’ Roll, Tom Rush: No Regrets, Scream for Me Sarajevo, Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution, The Public Image Is Rotten, Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together, It Must Make Peace, How They Got Over, Horn From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story, The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, Penelope Spheeris, Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, The Decline of Western Civilization, John Lydon, PiL, Public Image Ltd, Mali, gospel, Bruce Dickinson, Ozzfest, Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, Isidore “Tuts” Washington, Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Toumani Diabate, Afel Bocoum, Lou Ottens, Davis Theater, Comfort Station, Old Town School of Folk Music, 2350 Last Call: The Neo Story, GMan Tavern, David Bowie: The Last Five Years, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2017
Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! in Millennium Park, and more things to do in Chicago this week

I Saw You at Town Hall Pub, Forms and Features: Poetry Comics at the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and other happenings July 24-27
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, steve earle and the dukes, old town school of folk music, forms and features, center for intuitive and outsider art, chopin theatre, bruised orange, i saw you, a fools journey, misfit cabaret, amy krouse rosenthal, carrie secrist gallery, tim and eric, the vic, steve gadlin, heidecker, wareheim, jane, abortion and the underground, pride arts center, pritzker pavilion, wait wait don't tell me, peter sagal

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2017
Ai Weiwei’s solo Chicago debut, the Reader’s Book Swap, and more things to do this week

Scott Simon discusses his book My Cubs, Pop Culture Happy Hour, and more happenings from April 10-13
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Anne Lammot, Peoples Church, Martha Kelly, North Bar, Taco Tuesday Mashup, Revival Food Hall, Untitled (Just Kidding), Jesse Malmed, Museum of Contemporary Art, Scott Simon, Seminary Co-op, Patricia Smith, Terrance Hayes, Poetry Foundation, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Harris Theater, Chicago Reader Book Swap, Old Town School of Folk Music, Spread, Hideout, Ai Weiwei, Museum of Contemporary Photography

Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2017
The Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers, Strip Joker, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Merce Cunningham, Love Dose, and more happenings from February 10-12.
- By Jack Ladd
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Love Dose 2017, Morgan Manufaturing, Rhinofest, Prop Thtr, CLLAW XXVI, Logan Square Auditorium, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Broadway, Thelonious Martin, 19 East, Strip Joker, Uptown Underground

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 13, 2016
George and Gerry Armstrong were Chicago's first family of folk in the 50s and 60s

Folk-music power couple George and Gerry Armstrong helped launch the Old Town School and the University of Chicago Folk Festival.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, George Armstrong, Gerry Armstrong, folk music, Marjorie Ann Breen, WFMT, The Midnight Special, Studs Terkel, Simple Gifts, The Gay Gordons, Norm Pellegrini, University of Chicago Folk Festival, Old Town School of Folk Music, Folkways Records, Golden Ring, Golden Ring: A Gathering of Friends for Making Music, Joel Mabus, Art Thieme, The Wheel of the Year, Flying Fish Records, Wilmette

Music, Pitchfork Jul 1, 2016
Pitchfork Music Festival 2016 preview

Reader writers round up the locals on the bill, guide fans of hip-hop and R&B into the rest of the roster, and discuss the fest’s softening antipathy to emo, the gender balance of its bookings, and Brian Wilson’s white privilege.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, 2016, preview, Union Park, FKA Twigs, Brian Wilson, Beach House, The Pitchfork Review, 826CHI, Girls Rock! Chicago, Voter Engagement and Mobilization Project, Public Action Foundation, Old Town School of Folk Music, Wiggleworms, Kids Area, RP Boo, Jlin, CHIRP Record Fair, Flatstock, Coterie Chicago Craft Fair, Book Fort, Sufjan Stevens, Pet Sounds, Carly Rae Jepsen, Royal Headache, Digable Planets, Sun Ra Arkestra, Whitney

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2016
Abra Berens's Homegrown Cookbook dinner, the Reader's Book Swap, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Author Thomas Frank, Welcome to Night Vale live, and more happenings from April 11-14
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Peep Show, Links Hall, ABC Project, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Carl Hammer Gallery, Philatelic Adventures, New Belgium Beer Dinner, Schubas Tavern, Slurring Bee, Quenchers Saloon, Thomas Frank, Hideout, Listen Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People?, Chicago Reader Book Swap, Old Town School of Folk Music, The Chicago Homegrown Cookbook, Read It and Eat, Abra Berens, Harris Theater, Welcome to Night Vale

Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2016
A conversation with Thurston Moore, Rick Bayless at the Good Food Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this week

The Macy's Flower Show, Koval Distillery Dinner, and more happenings from March 21-24.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Good Food Festival, UIC Forum, RE|Dance Group, What Brings Me to This Place, Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater, It's Happening, Links Hall, Thurston Moore, Old Town School of Folk Music, Northern Triangle, Rational Park, Macy's Flower Show, Juiceboxxx, Empty Bottle, Koval Distillery, Uncommon Ground

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2016
Mr. Fingers's new 12-inch makes a good warm-up for the Old Town School's house history panel

Mr. Fingers is one of many musicians who's worked with attorney Jay B. Ross, who appears on a panel about the business of house music tonight at the Old Town School.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Mr. Fingers, Qwazars, DJ International, Old Town School of Folk Music, Kevin McFall, Jay B. Ross, Larry Heard

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 30, 2015
Miss Mia from Chic-a-Go-Go needs help to save her smile

Plus: Baudelaire in a Box returns with its goth-tastic eighth installment, and Ho Etsu Taiko takes over the Athenaeum.
- By Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Gossip Wolf, Chic-a-Go-Go, Mia Park, Theater Oobleck, Dave Buchen, Baudelaire in a Box, The Flowers of Evil, Old Town School of Folk Music, Delicious Night, Azita Youssefi, Bobby Conn, Monica Boubou, Whitney Johnson, Ho Etsu Taiko, On Ensemble

Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 5/9: Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Let's Get Working, and Young Fathers

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 9
- By Osita Nwanevu
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Blackbird, Dana Cree, Fat Rice, Abraham Conlon, Takashi, Courtney Joseph, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Studs Terkel, Let's Get Working, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago Tribune, Rick Kogan, Old Town School of Folk Music, Mark Dvorak, Young Fathers, Dead, Leor Galil, Baths

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature May 6, 2014
Recommended
Our guide to Let's Get Working, a tribute to Studs Terkel

The U. of C. pays tribute to Studs Terkel with a weekend-long festival of readings, screenings, and appearances by Ira Glass and other notables.
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Studs Terkel, Let's Get Working, University of Chicago, Ira Glass, Rick Kogan, Andre Schiffrin, WFMT, StoryCorps, Old Town School of Folk Music, Mark Dvorak, It's a Living, Book and Information Fair, South Side Weekly, Street-Level Youth Media, Voice of Witness, Media Burn Archive, Best of Studs 1946-2008, Nelson Algren, Bill Veeck, Soapbox Debates, Washington Park, Bughouse Square, Craft Talk, Dave Hoekstra, Mary Schmich, Anthology of Chicago, 1,001 Chicago Afternoons, Reinventing the Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass, This American Life, Pocket Guide to Hell, Bill Savage, Thomas Dyja, Justin Amolsch, Hideout, Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 4/10: Words + Music, Everything Is Terrible!, and Juana Molina

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 10
- By Lisa Schulz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Words + Music, Megan Stielstra, Tim Kinsella, Curbside Splendor, Let Go and Go On and On, Once I Was Cool, Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, Tony Fitzpatrick, Walking Bicycles, More Gorgeous, Empty Bottle, Everything Is Terrible, Doggie Woggiez, Poochie Woochiez, Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, Gene Siskel Film Center, Juana Molina, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall

Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sat 2/1: Chinese New Year celebrations, Juggernaut Film Festival, and Iron & Wine with the Haden Triplets

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, February 1
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chinese New Year, Chinese-American Museum of Chicago, Juggernaut Film Festival, Ray Bradbury, Chicago Filmmakers, Iron & Wine, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, Haden Triplets, Charlie Haden

Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Fri 10/11: Chicago International Film Festival, Elvis Fantasy Fest, and Sarah Jarosz

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, October 11
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Jim Elledge, Henry Darger, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Mary Trent, Michael Bonesteel, Elvis, Elvis Fantasy Fest, Woodland Park Community Center, Portage, Indiana, Joe Esposito, Austin, Sarah Jarosz, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Build Me Up From Bones, Willie Watson, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2013
Best shows to see: Sarah Jarosz, Goblin, the Weeknd, Jeremy Denk

The best shows to see on Thu 10/10 through Sun 10/13
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, best shows to see, Sarah Jarosz, Jeremy Denk, Goblin, the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye, Old Town School of Folk Music, Symphony Center, Metro, Chicago Theatre, Mark Lanegan, Deicide, Agent Orange, Lee Ranaldo, Lee Randldo & the Dust, Sara Bareilles

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 10/10: Autumn Brews, Tame Impala, and Mark Lanegan

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, October 10
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Autumn Brews: Seasonal Beer Tasting in the Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, Baderbräu, Bell's, Four Horsemen, Lagunitas, Tame Impala, Australia, Austin, Texas, White Denim, Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss, the Riviera

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2013
The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, hipsters, Flat Iron Building, Bridgeport, neighborhoods, New York Times, next Seattle, Richard Lloyd, Jeff Huebner, history, Real World, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen Times, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Handley, Joe Judd, Shane Bugbee, Elliot Dicks, gentrification, Clem Jaskot Jr., Phyllis' Musical Inn, bars, Gold Star Bar, Nelson Algren, Wicker Park, HotHouse, Double Door, Pontiac, Subterranean, Flat Iron Building, Myopic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Autonomous Zone Infoshop, Buys Bee, Earwax Cafe, Urbus Orbis, commercialization, bohemia, brohemia, Sarah Crawford, Fine Arts Building, artists' colonies, coffeehouses, nightclubs, The Little Room, South Loop, artists, tea, Auditorium Hotel, Ralph Clarkson, Henry Blake Fuller, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Jane Addams, Bertha Palmer, Jackson Park, Hyde Park, Midway Studios, Floyd Dell, Evening Post, Evening Post's Friday Literary Review, Paul Durica, Margery Currey, salons, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, The Little Review, Richard Lloyd, Chicago winters, Towertown, Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, River North, Maxwell Bodenheim, them restaurants, Gold Coast House of Correction, Big John's Coal Scuttle, Jake Loeb, Thomas Dyja, Tree Studios, Prohibition, tearooms, Green Mask, Ballyhoo Cafe, drag shows, Dil Pickle Club, Washington Square Park, Newberry Library, Bughouse Square, Jack Jones, Tooker Place, Mae West, Ben Reitman, Chicago Tribune, alcohol, Charles Collins, Mitchell Dawson, Harriet Monroe, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Weil, Bill Haywood, Jack Johnson, Chicago Literary Times, Michigan Avenue Bridge, douchebags, yuppies, bros, Alfreda Gordon, Chicago Sunday Times, development, beatniks, hippies, New Yorker, Emily Hahn, Slim Brundage, College of Complexes, Piper's Alley, Lincoln Restaurant, Maury's, Cholly Wendorf, Bill Smith, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc, Hairy Who, Will Leonard, University of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, Frank Ryan, Norman Mailer, Dee Paira, Gavin Morrison, Rainbo Club, Logan Square, Jason Hammel, Logan Beach, Lula Cafe, Amalea Tshilds, Joe Bryl, Longman & Eagle, Reno, Bang Bang Pie, Parsons Chicken & Fish, Cozy Corner, Cole's Bar, Helen's, Two-Way Lounge, Whirlaway Lounge, The Whistler, Scofflaw, Weegee's Lounge, Logan Square Farmers Market, Dill Pickle Co-Op, Cafe Mustache, New Wave Coffee, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Matthias Merges, Jared Wentworth, Paul McGee, Maria Jaimes, Fireside Bowl, The Mutiny, John McDermott, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Latinos, buying property, Bridgeport, Pilsen, Jason Vincent, Bruce Finkelman, Thalia Hall, Modern Cooperative, furniture stores, Nightwood, Co-Prosperity Sphere, public transportation, mass transit, Version Fest, Mash-Tun Festival

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