CHI PRC celebrates Chicago’s rich history of punk and hardcore, supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux hold a march and fund-raiser in Pilsen, and more.
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 7
Issue of Nov. 17 – 23, 2016
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Billie Howard of Aperiodic on Sia’s stripped-down United Center show
Current musical obsessions of Billie Howard from Akosuen and Aperiodic, Bow & Hammer violinist Kathryn Satoh, and the Reader’s Philip Montoro
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The Chicago Podcast Festival debuts this weekend
More than 30 local and national programs record live shows across the city.
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Overlooked guitar god Harvey Mandel borrows Ryley Walker’s band for his new album
Forty-seven years after Harvey Mandel played Woodstock with Canned Heat, Snake Pit could be the record that finally gets the guitarist his due.
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Hospital official: Trump anxiety is sparking a ‘public health crisis,’ and other Chicago news
Also, an artist wants to install a photo mural of Michelle Obama on the first lady’s south-side elementary school.
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Links Hall cofounder Bob Eisen celebrates his 70th birthday with a performance and party tonight
“Past, Past, Present” includes three works reflective of the venue’s past, present, and future.
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Coda di Volpe is a splash of southern-Italian spice on the Southport corridor
But Billy Lawless’s latest spot would struggle to stand out among the horde of new Italian restaurants in town.
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Where do tarot cards get their fortune-telling power?
“I’m not psychic,” tarot-card reader Alan Salmi says, “but the cards are.”
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Glitter Creeps throws itself a second-birthday party headlined by Nobunny
On Wednesday at the Empty Bottle, local punk-rock LGBTQ night Glitter Creeps celebrates two years of being weird and proud.
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Rahm promises that Chicago will remain a ‘sanctuary city’ for undocumented immigrants, and other news
Also, there’s been a huge increase in demand at Planned Parenthood.
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Hyde Park postpunks the Imports could’ve been America’s Joy Division
The Imports lasted only long enough to release one single of their dark, mesmerizing postpunk.