Weekend Photos: Square Roots Festival
When we got wind of the city’s newest soiree, Square Roots Festival, we simply had to get in on the craft-beer-and-folk-music action…
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Printers' Ball Kicks Off With Preview of Theaster Gates Project
The Poetry Foundation’s annual literary celebration technically started last night with a sneak peek at a new Gates project at the Kavi Gupta Gallery
Your Top 5 Plans This Week
On your agenda: The final days of LCD Soundsytem revealed on film… A dark children’s dance show makes its American debut… free jazz… plus, the weekend plans of associate editor of Poetry magazine, Fred Sasaki.
Breaking Down the New Cultural Plan—By the Numbers
For the first time in 25 years, the city of Chicago has released a draft of a cultural plan, the culmination of an almost six-month process of “creating the city’s cultural vision from the bottom up.” Here are just five points that stood out…
(Non-Musical) Artists We Loved at Pitchfork 2012
While the music is the main attraction at Pitchfork, the festival has a long tradition of inviting other vendors to share in the indie-fan wealth. Here are two finds we loved…
'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and the Violence of Resettlement
Benh Zeitlin’s odd, dreamy debut feature has been embraced as a post-Katrina allegory of life in the Delta, but like good folklore, it expands beyond that into the struggles of the dispossesed to stay in places the state would have us improve.
Pitchfork 2012: Bands & Performances
Photos of Feist, Dirty Projectors, Grimes, Hot Chip, Willis Earl Beal, Vampire Weekend, and more
‘Locally Grown’: The Farm Charm of Midwest Artisanal Farms
Anna Blessing’s new book includes looks at Mick Klug Farm and Seedling Orchard
Pitchfork 2012: Best and Worst of the Festival
With umbrellas in our hands and rainboots on our feet, Chicago braved the storms at Union Park this weekend for the seventh annual Pitchfork Music Festival. Photographers Ray Whitehouse and James Trevenen shot the wildest style, crowds, and performances, while writer Elly Fishman caught the best of the fest’s performers—both on stage and off…
Pitchfork 2012: Crowd Photos
MORE PITCHFORK: STYLE GALLERY | OVERHEARD AT P4K | BEST AND WORST OF THE FEST | BANDS & PERFORMANCES Photography: Ray Whitehouse and PETER RANVESTEL