I’m lying on a recliner, its’ faint aroma of sweat and mold having long past become an unnoticed fragment of my day. The white sheet draped over it helps to mask the odor, but it still creeps through, like smoke in a clean room. The sleeve of my sweatshirt is covering my eyes and I …
In 1978 or 1979, roughly concurrent with Cheap Trick’s release of Heaven Tonight and Dream Police, I argued vehemently that Cheap Trick was a combo whose appeal would go on. I predicted their careers would have the longevity of a band like the Rolling Stones, who even by then had been recording and touring for …
Exotic species invading native habitats is a natural phenomena gone wild through the active transport provided by Homo Sapiens. What starts out as novel idea can quickly turn into a catstrophe when there is no constraint. Well now, nobody explained that to these boys from Peoria! Demonstrating Yankee ingenuity and comic book creativity, they are …
And here’s a video which shows a great street level view of the North Side of Chicago including a pizza joint, a Catholic (or maybe Orthodox) Church, a gospel choir, an alley with brick walls rising on both sides and an apartment full of empties.
Here’s the latest from Kidd Russell: Hey Guys – Here is my new weekly recap show via youtube called “Everyday’s Pulaski Day.” It will document what its like to chill with me and my homeless DJ John Blaze. Episode 1 has us hanging out on the Chicago music video set of Interscope’s newest artist, Kay. …
Charlie Sheen’s “Violent Torpedo of Truth” live stage show had more success in Chicago Sunday night than it had the previous night in Detroit, working better comedy into the show such as this exchange– Why does he pay for sex? He “ran out of things to buy.” Charlie Sheen takes on Chicago Chicago (CNN) — …
Dum Dum Girls cover Big Star
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This will bring back some memories. Any guy who grew up playing football will feel this one. Reminds me of growing up back in the 60625 when it was still part of the 312 and running in the mud with a football till it got too dark to see at every park and empty lot …
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The NFC North is a division of the National Football League’s National Football Conference. It currently has three members: the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Minnesota Vikings, with the Detroit Lions playing on the NFC North Junior Varsity. The Bears, Packers and Lions have been in the same division or conference since the NFL …
Flying through the night on a fourteen-hour Japan Airlines Chicago-to-Narita flight had me thinking back on my long, soon-ending career as a Covenant Police officer. Twenty years and now I’ll get my military pension. Time had flown by. I served ten years in Washington protecting Covenant officers while they were looking for government funding …
. So, there I was at SOFA-Chicago (International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair) last month exhibiting my work and not selling much when an employee of Ferrin Gallery, Lauren Levato, purchased a small beaded flower of mine. It is possible that I started gushing about the work of my favorite artist Sergei Isupov, who …
. Driving to the train station the other morning, I had no idea that it was the first day of Hannakuh (Did I spell that right?). I was enlightened by Lin Brehmer, the ever resourceful morning man on Chicago’s finest radio station WXRT, who played this song. At long last an alternative to Adam Sandler’s …
. One of my favorite videos… not because of it’s excellent image quality (quite obviously NOT) but because it combines my favorite singer, Robert Plant, with one of my favorite bands backing him up, Pearl Jam, in my favorite city and hometown, Chicago, in an iconic club, House of Blues, for a very worthy cause, …
. My journalism school, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is changing its name from The Medill School of Journalism to The Medill School of Journalism, Media and Marketing Communications. This development culminates several years of changes instituted by the new journalism dean, who has shifted the focus of the school from news writing and …
West Coast residents never understand the brutal sarcasm making up the everyday humor vocabulary in Chicago. Only in Chicago could perky morning news hosts make bitter wisecracks about osteoporosis and then make fun of themselves when they miss the bridge implosion. Here in the eternally optimistic West, it’s the osteoporosis joke and the hosts’ general …
In 1977, the Jersey sound was getting hot. Some guy named Bruce Springsteen had put out a record called Born to Run in ’75 and while everyone waited for the next album (and then waited some more), the word was there were more bands out there in the “flats of Jersey”. The Sugar Miami Steve …
If you love the Chicago Blues, you’ll count yourself lucky that Hubert Sumlin is still alive and playing guitar. His stunningly original and powerful technique, structured unlike any other in recorded blues, has many admirers but no successful imitators. As the lead guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf, he helped create a body of work that formed …
Things are tough all over. Even legendary recordist Steve Albini, the famed audio technician behind classic releases from Nirvana, Liz Phair, Bush, Bedhead, Built to Spill, Bottomless Pit, Cheap Trick and dozens of others is having trouble paying the mortgage on Electrical Audio, his impeccably designed analog studio. Tim Midgett, guitarist, bassist and songwriter for …
Although this clip looks as if it had been filmed at a Chicago Blues club, it actually took place at the Newport Folk Festival in 1966. The folklorist Alan Lomax had set up a faux juke joint where he could film blues players in a “realistic” club setting. Performers included Skip James, Bukka White, and …
Here’s a gem of an understated “Mojo” from 1963. Any videos of Sonny Boy Williamson II are scarce indeed, since he died in the summer of 1965. That’s the American Folk Blues Tour again, with Otis Spann, Matt Murphy, Willie Dixon, and Bill Stepney (very rare to see him) on the drums. Locale? Britain or …