What’s on the Agenda for Friday, September 7, 2012
Tag: Saigon
Posted inMusic
Three Beats: A tape from the band that spawned Vee Dee, Daily Void, and Nobunny
Plus: Freddie Gibbs cuts an EP in 24 hours, and Little White Earbuds launches a label
Posted inMusic
Try some Swervedriver with your Wishbone at Taste of Randolph Street
Taking place along the six-block corridor of Randolph between Peoria and Racine, the Taste of Randolph Street features lots of food and three days of live music on two stages, Fri-Sun 6/17-6/19. Friday the music starts at 5 PM and includes the Heavy and Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers on the west stage (Randolph […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Is it safe to send your child to journalism school?
The Sun-Times back in the 70s didn’t have a foreign affairs budget, but it was more than happy to indulge a restless reporter’s existential funk. So on my own dime, in the spring of 1975 I found myself in Saigon as the Communist army closed in on the city and the world watched. And that […]