Since 2018, the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective has made waves in town by resurrecting the stylish grooves of the postbop era, which began in the late 1950s—nationally, the sound was shaped b…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBeginning with Napster and continuing through Spotify, the nemeses of independent record labels have been legion over the past few decades. The deaths of brick-and-mortar retail chains, incl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:57AMIn 1997, Wilco’s double album Being There became a fundamental pivot for the Chicago band in a decade filled with triumphs. Twenty-five years later, those songs live on in the band’s liv…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMGoodman theatre, ChicagoWhen two cosmetic titans battle, it isn’t pretty – but this musical doesn’t quite get to the heart of the animosity between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMWritten during Ronald Reagan’s first presidential bid, Mamet's greedy men almost seem quaint in our impenitent era
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