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Tamms Year Ten spreads the dirt
Local group raises awareness with mud stencils
Jesse Graves, 21, was working on a project for an art class that required for him to make a stencil. Being the eco-minded young artist that he is, he decided to focus ...
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
A long-overdue thank you
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 ...
Brett and butter
Embarking on the unknown
When I came to Columbia in the fall of 2006, I was a tool. The big city was new to me, and I thought the most ridiculous things were cool. I wore ...
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With Glasko
If there was an ideal definition for what Glasko, the band name, means, it would be nothing like Glasgow, Scotland. Lead singer Eric Michaels visited Glasgow(pronounced like Glasko) and realized the place ...
Mexican film festival comes to Chicago
Founder talks about upcoming tour, plans, motives behind event
While many events will happen in the city this June, a new one has been recently added to the calendar.
The Hola Mexico Film Festival, which will showcase 14 Mexican movies, will make ...
Chicago celebrates Burnham’s legacy
Institutions around city commemorate legendary architect and urban planner
It's been 100 years since Daniel Burnham laid out a plan for Chicago's future. The plan included miles of parkland along the lakefront, Wacker Drive, Michigan Avenue, forest preserves and Navy Pier. ...
AEMM capstone class ends with free concert
AEMMP Records prepares free Maps & Atlases show, compilation of Chicago artists
Columbia's AEMMP Records class has been nothing short of a full-time job for seven Columbia students. For the past two semesters, the students worked tirelessly for the record label-capstone class hybrid. Now, ...
‘Up’ director flying high
Veteran animator Pete Docter drives Pixar forward with new animated film
Pete Docter has been working in animation for more than 20 years. His earliest films may be out of the public eye, but they were enough to land him a spot at ...
Rallied behind robots
Even when customers aren’t around the shop, there’s always some type of commotion. At times, it’s a Chinese robot known as the “drunk robot” that waddles around, falls down and always finds ...
Rapper Talib Kweli, Mojoe help charity
Concert proceeds benefit local nonprofit for youth education
People donate less during a recession, but some might feel a little more giving if rapper Talib Kweli and the up-and-coming rap group Mojoe were the ones asking for money. At least, ...
Saturday night fuels film fanatics
Three different Chicago institutions pay tribute to horror, sci-fi, cult classic movies
It's almost suspicious that there are three different tributes to the strange, spooky and weird genres of film on May 9. From the Music Box Theatre to Facets Cinematheque to the Viaduct ...
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With Company of Thieves
Pop music comes in a lot of different formats. There's the bubblegum pop of Radio Disney, there's the unavoidable pop of Coldplay, there's the lesser-known world of indie-pop and then there's an ...
New Dylan doesn’t disappoint
Music legend’s latest delivers different sound, pleasant listening experience
It seems almost mandatory for me to run through a history of Bob Dylan before I review his latest release, Together Through Life. It's as if I need to prove to the ...
‘Tyson’ doc accidental genius
Insane ramblings of Mike Tyson documentary bound to be cult hit
A documentary about iconic and turbulent former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson seems almost obvious. While most famous athlete's stories are told in fiction if not live feed, Tyson has always ...
Priceless traveling store
Four locals host free shop throughout neighborhoods across Chicago
Whoever said "Nothing in life is free" obviously never met this group. Without declaring a special holiday to give things away, four people open a store a few times a year where ...