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Corey Wilkes, whose new jazz recording, Drop It, lands June 17th. Catch his tribute to Miles Davis on June 1st at the New Checkerboard Lounge (5201 S. Harper Ct.).
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Good Knight
Classical music comes out of the Dark Ages.
Blip – July 2008
Bright spots on the cultural radar
Festivals: Playlist
Five great road trips for music aficionados
Lady Is Lonely
Karen Carroll is one of the few women left in the blues.
Found Art
Sacred Heart: Explosion by Henry Darger
Three Questions
Jazz impresario Joe Segal makes good on a promise with the long-delayed opening of his new Jazz Showcase.
Solo Show
Chicago-born brothers Gregory and Jeffrey Qaiyum—a.k.a. writer-actor GQ and composer JQ— put an urban spin on Shakespeare
The Five
In addition to the MCA’s blockbuster Jeff Koons show, five other don’t-miss exhibitions making plenty of noise
I Pan Gas For Less
In Auburn, Alabama, where I went to college, one of the best places to get fried chicken was inside a gas station off of Highway 280. The place was “country-fied” with a K and always smelled freshly mopped with Pine-Sol—a scent that I personally find revolting. But the chicken was tasty, and the Coke was cold.
In all those years that I patronized the fuel pump and the chicken fryer, I overheard lots of conversations. The unknowingly elite college students talked about their…