Chicago Musical Acts to Watch
Hear up-and-comers Disappears, Hollywood Holt, and Musikanto now. You can say you knew them when
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Top 5 Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Frankenstein tells Pinocchio’s story at The Neo-Futurarium … The Chicago Flower & Garden Show springs up at Navy Pier … Robert Glasper tinkles the ivories at the Double Door … plus, what the artist Michael Fleming and his twin brother and collaborator, Alan Fleming, are doing this weekend
Dennis Rodkin Discusses Michael Jordan's Home For Sale
Dennis Rodkin discussed Michael Jordan listing his Highland Park estate for sale at $29 million.
Rod Blagojevich’s Hair Diaries: First Day in Prison
SKETCH BOOK: Blago reports to prison—and where the ex-gov goes, his hair must follow
John Carter of Mars? He's from Chicago
Disney’s new blockbuster has its origins at an office at Monroe and Wacker, where failed businessman and pencil-sharpener-agent Edgar Rice Burroughs churned out the serialized tale A Princess From Mars in order to put food on the table.
Chicago Gang-Violence Documentaries Online
The Interrupters hits the Web courtesy of PBS’s Frontline. Plus: The Heart Broken In Half, an old doc by Taggart Siegel and the late Dwight Conquergood; and the eerie, low-budget Great American Youth, a quasi-encomium to the Gaylords.
The History of House Music and Other Things to Watch
Sonali Aggarwal follows up “Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?” with a documentary about Chicago dance music; Jeanne Gang at the Chicago Humanities Festival; William Gibson on the decline of cyberspace.
Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Gorilla-masked feminist avengers swoop into Columbia College … Béla Fleck gets the band back together … A Tennessee Williams classic takes a strange road at Goodman … plus, what the Columbia College associate professor and indie publisher Zach Dodson is doing this weekend.
Reel Chicago Rescues Long-Forgotten Films
REAL TO REEL: With the release of a new DVD series, a school of gritty Chicago filmmaking flickers back to life
Black Composer Florence Price, Rediscovered Again
The New Black Music Repertory Ensemble of Columbia College plays the work of Florence Price, the first black woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.