Also, law enforcement looks for new leads in the 25-year-old kidnapping and murder of Tammy Zywicki.
Tag: Grammy Awards
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Illinois senate Republican leader Christine Radogno to resign as budget deadline looms, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicago’s minimum wage goes up to $11 per hour July 1, though the press for $15 per hour continues.
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Chance the Rapper’s Grammy nominations are a win for his community
You don’t have to care about the Grammys to care about Chance’s nominations—you only need to care about the young people of color he mentors and inspires.
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Eighth Blackbird release a lovely animated video for their reimagining of ‘Pretty Polly’
Eighth Blackbird commissioned a labor-intensive video to accompany a rewritten folk song from Bryce Dessner’s Murder Ballads.
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Jazz critic Neil Tesser wins a lifetime achievement award
The longtime Reader critic is honored by the Jazz Journalists Association.
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Artist on Artist: Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins
Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins and Chic-a-Go-Go.
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Chicago’s Neil Tesser wins Grammy
The local jazz critic reflects on his award and on the art and future of liner notes.
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Pinetop Perkins’s last session
When I arrived at Delmark’s Riverside Studios last November with my partner at
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Historical Sound and Vision
A beautiful Dust-to-Digital book/CD set about early American immersion baptism earns a Grammy nomination.
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Adventures in minstrelsy with Polk Miller
A reissued artifact from one of the more ignominious chapters of America’s musical past is up for a Grammy this weekend.