Articles tagged "chicago"

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Peaches + Amanda Blank: 20 November 2009 - Chicago

by Selena Fragassi

[3.Dec.09] :. Peaches – a Canadian tour de force whose recent Chicago stop on the I Feel Cream Tour proved that nobody in today’s musical nomenclature sells sex better.

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Joe Bonamassa: 24 October 2009 - Chicago

by Lisa Torem

[16.Nov.09] :. Like those around me I’m pinned to my chair. It’s just Joe and an acoustic and I’m astonished. In fact, I’ve never heard anything like it.

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Bell X1: 25 September 2009 - Chicago

by Chris Catania

[3.Nov.09] :. Far beyond the end of the show and into the night, the songs continued to burrow deep and swift -- these Irish lads know exactly how our hearts and minds are wired.

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Column: The Rockist

The ‘Ol Crotchety One Kicks It Transatlantic Style

by Michael Brett

[22.Oct.09] :. PopMatters sends its weekly culture columnist abroad, with hopefully a one-way ticket.

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Channel Surfing

“RE: Raw Video of Derrion Albert 16 teen year old beaten to death ...”

by Diepiriye Kuku

[7.Oct.09] :. How slow is too slow for non-violence? One girl counts to five and voila!

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Steve Wynn IV Band + The Minus 5 + The Baseball Project: 11 September 2009 - Chicago

by Lisa Torem

[6.Oct.09] :. Accompanied by furious riffs and rhythms thick as pigskin, these are strong, contagiously seductive lines – though - a little out in left field.

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Pet Shop Boys: 14 September 2009 - Chicago

by Lisa Torem

[2.Oct.09] :. Two slender figures wearing cubes over their heads, clothed in red and blue frocks, and playing tiny brass instruments walk towards a small piano.

 

Twirling the Dial: My Motown Memories

by Bill Gibron

[28.Jan.09] :. For those of us in tune with the sounds of the genre-redefining decade, a transistor radio was the seminal social sidekick. We loved listening to that little mono wonder, its tiny shrill speaker sparking a hundred journeys directly into the center of our mind.

 

The Big Shoulders Ball: Celebrating the Inauguration, Chicago Style

by Mehan Jayasuriya

[26.Jan.09] :. A busload of Chicago's best and brightest independent musicians storm the nation's capital on the eve of the Presidential inauguration and a former Chicagoan turned Washingtonian discovers that maybe you can transport the spirit of the Windy City -- if only for one night.

 

Red Chicago by Randi Storch

by Ron Grossman [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[26.Feb.08] :. An engaging look at the final years of the city's reign as the left-wing capital of America.

 

Chicago film crew tries to keep ‘Batman’ under wraps

by Terry Armour [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[2.Aug.07] :. CHICAGO - A curious crowd has gathered in Old Town, where a film crew has spent a good portion of the night setting up shop. Word has traveled through the neighborhood that the latest in the...

 

Chicago is heart, brain center of Obama campaign

by John McCormick [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. CHICAGO—The prime real estate in most Chicago high-rises sits on the side with a view of Lake Michigan’s blue waters. So it’s no coincidence that the fundraising department in...

 

How America’s Most Renowned Improv Club Stays Second to None

by Sid Smith [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. Recently, Second City unveiled "Between Barack and a Hard Place" and then sat back stunned by what the gods of sketch comedy had wrought: rave reviews; talk about how the troupe is rediscovering its political edge; and box-office business like nothing the club had seen in some time.

 

Chicago (2002)

by Lesley Smith

[26.Dec.02] :. Watching Chicago is rather like watching a shot-for-TV music video by a neophyte director projected without thought or re-cutting straight to a movie screen.