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Best beats in summer heat
The end of the school year can only mean one glorious thing: it's festival season again in the Midwest. Every year, hordes of music fans swarm from all corners of the country ...
One bad MF
happening. Not to sound cliche, but it really seems like yesterday that I was marching around the football field with my flute and secretly stalking my high school band teacher or was ...
Sci-fi thrillers hitting stage
It's the year 2156-a volatile time when humans have exhausted most of Earth's natural resources-and a crew of seven is forced to search elsewhere in the universe for a rare element that ...
Flat Iron Left Behind
Several years ago, Wicker Park's art scene was burgeoning. Studio space was cheap, and yearly art festivals cluttered Milwaukee and Damen avenues with abstractly painted canvases and hopeful artists waiting to catch ...
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With VitalLight
These days it seems like Chicago owes Iowa-first for helping President Barack Obama make it all the way to the top, them legalizng gay marriage and now, for spawning an electronic rock ...
Rogen, Faris talk mall cops
Stars of ‘Observe and Report’ bring laughs, awkward sex to film
Within the past few years, comedy has seemed to find its new legends, and right now, a dynamic handful of loveable men and women are fearless in the world of creating all ...
Conservative Catholics send hypocritical message
It’s an official all-out warfare, sort of, though it’s nothing entirely new—Catholics are on the front lines of a political matter, causing yet another rift between the Roman Catholic Church and its ...
Geek gets chic
The three founders of Chicago’s first-ever nerd social club unanimously agree that there is a longstanding stigma surrounding the term “nerd” —one that, almost without fail, revolves around argyle sweaters, wide-framed glasses ...
One bad MF
It's a little alarming when you reach that defining point in your life when your chosen career path is officially set in stone.
That's the case for me at least-for 20 years I ...
Cymbals Eat Guitars dust off genre
New York band channels classic indie rock
It seems easy these days to get disillusioned by the new album releases popping up every Tuesday morning and plastering Pitchfork all with ill-conceived 8.5 and 8.2 ratings. Bands tend to overcomplicate ...
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With CoachHouse
More than a year ago when members of CoachHouse began their recording process in Chicago, the four band members found themselves setting up instruments and equipment in a small coach house. Its ...
Flatfile closes up shop
Patrons buying less art, West Loop gallery goes under
It was back in January that Susan Aurinko realized that her innovative West Loop art gallery, Flatfile, wouldn't be able to stay in business-much like everything else, the dwindling economy decided that ...
Columbia dancers go on tour
Three students perform before T.I. and Ludacris
When the lights dimmed in the NIU Convocation Center, shrieks were heard from left to right as the blinding lights from flashing cameras pointed toward the stage. Artists T.I. Ludacris were ...
Cover rock
On Thursday nights, Wrigleyville's Cubby Bear undergoes an old school transformation-the baseball fanatics and their beloved Dave Matthews tunes that often brim over in the late night bar become replaced by the ...
From *NSYNC to Radiohead
From the moment I smeared roll-on glitter onto the apples of my cheeks and pulled on my homemade puffy paint *NSYNC tank top, I knew I was hooked-I'm a junkie for live ...
Shopping cart debauchery
'Chiditarod' brings mayhem to Wicker Park
Alaska's own Iditarod is about to see an urbanized transformation-huskies will be replaced by men donning red caps and powder blue suits for team Zissou, sleighs exchanged for rickety shopping carts and ...