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July 2010

Sampling Lollapalooza Cuisine with Graham Elliot Bowles

07/20/10

Sampling Lollapalooza Cuisine with Graham Elliot Bowles

The chef Graham Elliot Bowles is the first “culinary director” of Lollapalooza, the gargantuan music festival for the masses that seizes downtown Chicago August 6th through 8th. It makes sense: The guy’s a musician, and c’mon, he even has a tattoo that references the Cali punk band Jawbreaker on his forearm...

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The Best and the Worst of Pitchfork 2010

07/19/10

The Best and the Worst of Pitchfork 2010

Pitchfork, the city’s second largest summer music event (behind Lollapalooza), drew 54,000 to Union Park over the weekend. The usual specimens were all there: the erudite indie rock fans, the gaggles of teens, the boys in moustaches, the hipster parents with their babies in headphones...

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Pitchfork Staffers Tell Us Which Acts to Catch

07/14/10

Pitchfork Staffers Tell Us Which Acts to Catch

Three writers for Pitchfork, the Chicago-based music review site behind the annual festival, each share their daily schedules and give us two can’t-miss picks...

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