Vintage Chicago hippie rock from Yama & the Karma Dusters gets a CD reissue just in time for Earth Day.
Tag: Vol. 39 No. 30
Issue of Apr. 15 – 21, 2010
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include the Do-Division Street Fest, Heartless Bastards, Taste of Chicago, Futureheads, Jack-O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers, the Chicago Folk & Roots Festival, and more.
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Morning Art: gARTh
Part of “Old, New, Borrowed, Blue,” on display at Harold Washington College President’s Gallery
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Chicago Actors Honored
Jacqueline Williams and Larry Yando win Lunt-Fontanne fellowships.
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There Were Absolutely No Problems With the Bread Tray
Was our waiter simply unusual or was he working from a playbook?
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Guru’s Deathbed Letter Was a Hoax
The late rapper’s sister says he never woke up from his coma.
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The Hold Steady Misses Chicago . . . or Do They?
Which local festival snagged the Hold Steady in July?
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Can Video Games Be Art? A Response to Roger Ebert
Chicago’s best blogger has decided to pick another fight with gamers, which is always fun. I don’t really have a dog in this fight—I’ve been an on-and-off video game player since childhood, but mostly sports games, which have zero pretensions towards art—but I do have an expensive liberal arts education that I don’t get to […]
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Pat Quinn’s iTax
Is the governor’s push to tax digital downloads dumb, or just unpopular?
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Morning Art: Diane Simpson
Part of “Sculpture + Drawing, 1978-2009,” on display at the Chicago Cultural Center
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How Much Does Your Media Consumption Isolate You?
The Internet: 60% less ideologically isolating than national newspapers.