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Author Archives: Kelsey Gee

Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee and Joe Valdez June 12, 2012August 19, 2021

In-the-know Chicagoans recommend a fish story, Grown Folks Stories, and Prometheus

The most important thing to remember when shopping here is lLocation, location, hang gliding
Posted inArts & Culture

Show us your . . . penthouse suite

by Kelsey Gee June 6, 2012August 19, 2021

We check out the pad with the highest price (and altitude) in the city

Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee June 1, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend the People’s Stage Karaoke, XTreme Bugs at Brookfield Zoo, and That Mitchell and Webb Look

Kaskade
Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee May 25, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend summer music festivals, Dawoud Bey, and the Encyclopedia Project

Soul Food Starter Kit by Theaster Gates
Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee May 18, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend Theaster Gates, Acre restaurant, and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Swap-o-Rama, Maxwell Street Market's little cousin to the south
Posted inNews & Politics

Zoom in: Back of the Yards

by Kelsey Gee May 16, 2012August 19, 2021

A look at the flea market in Back of the Yards where stolen bikes get sold

Dominic Cesario
Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee May 14, 2012August 19, 2021

In-the-know Chicagoans recommend Pete’s Barber Shop, The Odyssey, and Shame That Tune

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Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee May 8, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend City Critters, the Chicago History Museum, and OhNo!Doom’s “Relentless”

Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee April 30, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, the Roger Brown Study Collection, and MLS

A look inside the dilapidated St. Stephens Church
Posted inNews & Politics

Zoom in: Hyde Park

by Kelsey Gee April 25, 2012August 19, 2021

A look at the slowly deteriorating St. Stephen’s Church in Hyde Park

Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee April 23, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend graphic novel Boilerplate, soul singer Reginald Torian, and Milan Kundera’s The Farewell Party

Posted inArts & Culture

Your Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee April 16, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend The White Feathered Octopus, Jonas Friddle and the Majority, and the basement of Gilt

Old-school cleats, Czech style.
Posted inNews & Politics

Zoom in: Little Village

by Kelsey Gee April 11, 2012August 19, 2021

A look at the site of a once-great soccer stadium

"The almost Shakespearean human drama that was the Enron saga."
Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee April 9, 2012August 19, 2021

In-the-know Chicagoans recommend Enron, art in the Loop, and the Larry Sanders Show

Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Kelsey Gee April 2, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend Science Is Culture, Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo, artist Antonio Martorell

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