Chicago music remains interesting and vital partly because of how local subcultures overlap and intersect. The city has plenty of tight communities of musicians focused on specific sounds, but the borders around those communities are porous; improvising multi-instrumentalists collaborate with rappers, hip-hop producers take in jazz gigs, and rock musicians immerse themselves in hardware-centric underground […]
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Keeping the beat
Chicago’s beat scene has to do without the attention the city’s rappers get, but it’s a vital incubator for adventurous, ambitious instrumental hip-hop.
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Let TALsounds take you All the Way
Local experimental musician Natalie Chami prepares to drop All the Way, a doozy, moody cassette she recorded as TALsounds.
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The Reader’s Guide to New Year’s Eve 2013
Our guide to the best places to be when 2014 starts
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Cocktail Challenge: Shiitake mushrooms
Masa Azul’s Jenny Kessler makes the Shiitake Flip.
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Cocktail Challenge: falernum
Rodan’s Eric Chaleff soothes his flu with falernum
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Chicago Motion Graphics Festival
The Chicago Motion Graphics Festival showcases technological art with screenings, performances, workshops and parties, Sept Wednesday-Sunday at multiple venues.
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Fellini’s Birthday at Rodan
Rodan screens Fellini’s “8 1/2” or “La Dolce Vita” for what would be the filmmaker’s 89th birthday Wednesday 1/20.
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Killer flicks and pho
Rodan’s Soupline Cinema Sundays serve up classics by Wong Kar Wai, Kurosawa, Kore-eda and Sammo Hung.
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Asian cult cinema and a side of noodles
Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter and Siu-Tung Ching’s A Chinese Ghost Story Sunday at Rodan.