A home-brewing contest at Binny’s, a talk on food from the Ottoman Empire, tax day specials, and more.
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 28
Issue of Apr. 2 – 8, 2009
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4/9, 4/11 — More Free Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Events
Free symposium Thursday on Venezuela’s world-renowned music education program, “El Sistema,” and a chance to sit in on musical instruction from conductor of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Simon Dudamel.
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Dance music with no name
Argentine cumbia experimentalists Zizek Urban Beats Club–who perform at Sonotheque on Wednesday night–make music so dense with influences it defies the club scene’s apparent imperative to invent a name for every tiny subgenre.
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Oliver vs. NCAA
An Oklahoma State baseball star’s successful lawsuit against the NCAA offers a look at the association’s tyrannical tactics when it comes to eligibility cases.
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Pullin’ tubes with Flosstradamus
Flosstradamus and Thunder Horse play the Abbey Pub on April 20, a numerologically significant date for fans of a certain herb.
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Burritos the size of Tim Nordwind’s head
OK Go want 20 fans to help them make burritos for the homeless before their Double Door show on April 23.
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South Indian vocal pyrotechnics from the Carnatica Brothers
The Carnatica Brothers play a free show Wednesday night at the Chicago Cultural Center.
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Michelle Obama goes to Europe
Thoughts on the First Lady’s overseas sartorial choices.
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Don’t stare at the chick: aggressive balut push on the way
Look out: entrepreneur Val Zubiri wants to introduce the Filipino drinking snack balut to local bars.
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Millennium Park’s wanna-Beans
Getting the nickname game started early for Zaha Hadid’s Millennium Park pavilion, designed for the Burnham centennial.
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Early experiments in video
Experimental and activist video from Video Data Bank’s “Surveying the First Decade” screens Thursday at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Dark Lord Day 2009: people are insane
Three Floyds created its Golden Tickets for DLD 2009 to try to cut resellers out of the picture, but a $20 pair is already approaching $15,000 on eBay.
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What comes first, the green or the jobs?
Alderman John Pope, who works on the southeast side, the heart of old industrial Chicago, says he’s interested in attracting green jobs. But not-quite-green jobs sound pretty good too.