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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…
MORE PITCHFORK: STYLE GALLERY | OVERHEARD AT P4K | BEST AND WORST OF THE FEST | BANDS & PERFORMANCES Photography: Ray Whitehouse and PETER RANVESTEL
“You know you’ve made it when you have sperm whales on your shirt,” and other quoteworthy gems from the weekend
In 1934, Orson Welles had departed Chicagoland and was on the verge of his New York theater breakthrough. But that year he married Wheaton native Virginia Nicholson—and the two shot a film, Welles’s first, at his beloved alma mater in Woodstock.
If tomorrow and Sunday see storms like today’s, we might just rename this year’s festival “Pitch-a-tent-fork.” Still, the show goes on, so here are five essentials to get you through the weekend…
