The city’s iconic elevated tracks, subways, and buses star in Hollywood flicks.
Tag: The Blues Brothers
Posted inMusic
Blues bassist Calvin ‘Fuzz’ Jones made Muddy Waters sound his best
Calvin “Fuzz” Jones, who spent most of his five-decade career in Chicago, was one of the most prominent sidemen in electric blues.
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Muddy Waters drummer Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith never escaped the sideman shadow
Even when Willie “Big Eyes” Smith won a Grammy at the end of his life, he shared it with pianist Pinetop Perkins.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Explaining Chicago to New Yorkers is supremely gratifying
It’s a delight to watch the slow-dawning revelation that another American city might give NYC a run for its money.
Posted inBlogs
That’s not my finger! and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Posted inBlogs
Aching lovers, hockey thugs, etc
“Silence versus noise was my idea!”: Seann William Scott in Goon Boy, how I hate getting scooped by my own coworkers. Here I had this great idea for a piece about The Deep Blue Sea, explaining how director Terence Davies strategically uses silence to frame and intensify the sounds and music in his story of […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Chi Lives: little shop of oysters
Calumet Fisheries, take-out shack at the foot of the 95th Street bridge