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Author Archives: Jim Newberry

Two vendors at a street festival in Uptown, Chicago, in 1988
Posted inNews & Politics

Two priests, a rabbi, and the Sex Pig

by Jim Newberry October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

“Nice work, but you’re not ready,” Bob McCamant declared, after flipping through the portfolio of 16-by-20-inch black-and-white prints I had spent many darkroom hours creating. We sat in his office at Reader headquarters on Illinois Street, in 1986, the year I graduated from Columbia College. McCamant was one of the group of four who’d founded […]

Nobunny
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Nobunny, Hot Machines

by Jim Newberry January 6, 2011August 19, 2021

January 1, Empty Bottle

Janet Bean
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Pakistani Flood Relief Benefit

by Jim Newberry December 2, 2010August 19, 2021

November 26, Viaduct Theatre

Matthias Schubert of the Longrun Development of the Universe, November 4, Chicago Cultural Center
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Umbrella Music Festival

by Jim Newberry November 11, 2010August 19, 2021

Matthias Schubert of the Longrun Development of the Universe; Wadada Leo Smith; Günter “Baby” Sommer

Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Atari Teenage Riot

by Jim Newberry October 7, 2010August 19, 2021

October 1, Bottom Lounge

Helms Alee
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Young Widows, Helms Alee

by Jim Newberry September 16, 2010August 19, 2021

September 8, Beat Kitchen

Maluca
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Mad Decent Block Party

by Jim Newberry August 26, 2010August 19, 2021

August 21, Hideout

Konono No. 1
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Konono No. 1, I Kong Kult

by Jim Newberry July 29, 2010August 19, 2021

July 20, Empty Bottle

Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Liam Hayes & Plush

by Jim Newberry June 24, 2010August 19, 2021

Subterranean, June 19; Hideout, June 20

Jace Lasek of the Besnard Lakes
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Besnard Lakes, the Ponys

by Jim Newberry May 27, 2010August 19, 2021

May 24, Millennium Park

Black Breath
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Black Breath, Converge

by Jim Newberry May 13, 2010August 19, 2021

May 9, Bottom Lounge

Mission of Burma
Posted inMusic

Mission of Burma, Orquestra Contemporanea de Olinda

by Jim Newberry April 15, 2010August 19, 2021

4/10, Double Door; 4/6, Rumba

Golden Triangle
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Golden Triangle

by Jim Newberry April 1, 2010August 19, 2021

March 24, Beat Kitchen

Malian desert-blues band Tinariwen plays one of last weekend's three shows
Posted inMusic

Photo Pit: Tinariwen

by Jim Newberry March 4, 2010August 19, 2021

Live (and in class) at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 2/27-28

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