Von Freeman could have been a household name in jazz, if he’d followed one of the many bandleaders who courted him on the road. But he stayed in Chicago, where he remained a cult favorite well into his 50s, while playing a vital role in the city’s jazz scene.
Story highlights from the September 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.
FEELIN’ GROOVY: The Midwest’s largest dance festival presents Bolero Chicago with 70 volunteers
Before the Wicker Park scene was all over MTV, there was The Pulse, a public-access show that captured Chicago indie music just as indie music was coming into existence.
Tracy Letts’s version of the Anton Chekhov play struggles to connect with the audience, according to our two editors who saw the show on separate nights…
Bueller is one of 12 fictional campaigns cooked up by nextmovie.com to coincide with The Campaign, the new political comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis…
On your agenda: Don Quixote chases windmills and wenches… Taj Mahal sings the blues… a free festival… plus, the weekend plans of the violinist J. Austin Wulliman.
The brilliant art critic, who died yesterday at the age of 74, took on the immense legacy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in a 2003 documentary that’s an engaging, thoughtfully critical look at Chicago architecture in the master’s wake.
Seen Monday night at the Hungry Brain: a bare ass, a life-size Arnold Schwarzenegger puppet, and a video montage set to Drowning Pool’s “Bodies” (in which “let the bodies hit the floor” loops endlessly). These elements were all part of Totally Recalled, a comedy show performed by Odds N’ Friends…
Much of Ukrainian Village was once farmland owned by a prominent member of New York society; cab fares in Chicago have really declined since the 1850s; and other explorations in an old map.
