After School Matters, the nonprofit that provides after-school and summer programs for Chicago teens (while offering them stipends), presents Spotlight on Peace, a performance featuring spoken word and dance, including hip-hop, ballet, jazz, African, and modern, from young artists. The free program runs 3-4:30 PM today at Navy Pier’s Lake Stage in Polk Bros. Park […]
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Summoning the ghosts of Record Row
For two decades, a short stretch of Michigan Avenue hosted a concentration of creative entrepreneurship whose influence on Black popular music is still felt today.
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Chicago rapper Phil G studied rap’s past to build a better future on PEACE
Chicago rapper Phil G clearly loves hip-hop’s golden age; his proclivity for skeletal percussion that bisects the air every time a drum beat kicks in and the stylistic elements that have flavored his oeuvre show a predilection for the types of bygone soul and jazz that served as the base for hip-hop’s teenage years. Recently, […]
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The knotty, transformational solo guitar practice of Eric Hofbauer
Boston guitarist Eric Hofbauer brings his attractively gnarled, elliptical improvisational style to Elastic on Thursday
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Best shows to see: the Chicago Blues Festival, the Stranglers, !!!, Bombino
Between now and Wednesday, your live-music options include the Chicago Blues Festival, Ribfest Chicago, Peace, the Stranglers, !!!, and Bombino.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 3/7: Peace on Earth Film Festival, “Race, Representation, Resistance,” and There Is a Happiness That Morning Is
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Thursday, March 7, 2013.
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Two on Yunus
Two documentaries on Nobel-winning microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus, who’s fighting to keep his position as the head of the Grameen Bank he founded: “Bonsai” 3/24 and “To Catch a Dollar” 3/31.
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Lollapalooza: P.L.U.R. on the Side Stage
It was telling that I didn’t see any neo-hipster hippies in the audience at Ben Harper’s set, which I had to wade through a couple of times due to a miscommunication with some friends I was trying to meet. There weren’t even as many as I’d expected watching Animal Collective, who are shaping up to […]