Jive Culture
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Hip Chicago Jazz with Soul!
Darkjive has been on Summer Vacation, but always digging deeper… I’ve been really into swinging sixties jazz from Chicago, like “Coming to Atlantis” a hip mover produced by Monk Higgins and credited to Freddie “The Creeper” Robinson (on Lead Guitar). The Flip of this 45, called “Before Six” is wonderful, as well. During the late 1960’s, there…
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In the Blood: susan lori parks’ remix of “scarlet letter” in chicago
“My life’s my own fault. I know that. But the world don’t help.” — Hester La Negrita “In the Blood”, the “bold re-imagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, embraces the yearning for love, family, and the price of moral absolutes” according to the UIC Performing Arts website. The rework centers on Hester La…
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Brown Sugar Soul! cupcakes + old school soul = BLISS
Brown Sugar Soul is a monthly after-work set where I spin a natural sugar high of old school funk and soul with no filler every 1st Thursday at the renowned Brown Sugar Bakery (which is, in fact a bakery… not a club with a clever title). Tip: they are famous for their caramel cake. Join…
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Dakar by Way of Chicago: omar pene & yassa
This Saturday, Senegal’s Omar Pene is in Chicago performing at Martyrs (3855 N. Lincoln). A former member of Super Diamono, a 70s Senegalese band that addressed social issues with funk, he is now solo… and in fine form. His voice has been described as both muscular and “islamic”, and the concert promises to be a treat.…
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Under the Spell of Red and Brown Water
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “In the Red and Brown Water,” now playing at Steppenwolf’s Upstairs Theater, is an exercise in duality that lends itself to complete immersion, an exercise in which you’re left like a used bag of orange pekoe (feeling purposefully spent). Reality blends with chorus-driven fantasy, magic with carnality, and comedy with tragedy in this…
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Stand With Haiti!!
Stand with Haiti!! An Evening of Food, Poets (including Lady Terror), Musicians, and Dancers Gathered to Support Those Devastated by the Earthquake in Haiti. DJ Ayana on the tables. Thursday, Jan. 21, 6:00pm – 8:45pm Thorne Auditorium 357 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL Free admission, donations requested. Food/Drink: 6-7pm Program: 7:15-8:45pm ALL Proceeds will be donated…
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Ebony in the digital age
Chicago’s own Ebony Magazine has digitized its archives. Celebrate. Ebony was the premier photojournalism and news magazine of the Black Diaspora for decades. During its peak, Ebony featured groundbreaking work by photographers such as Gordon Parks (work seen below), as well as thought provoking articles that exposed sometimes obscure corners of the “black experience” (Mixed race children of WWII G.I.s…
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Get Down With Us. Try it, You’ll like it…
It’s about to go down. Old Soul 45’s spun with love at the Morseland. Selections by me (DJ Ayana) and Gaucho. Join us this Thursday November 12 starting at 9:30pm. No Cover. The Morseland is located at 1218 West Morse in Chicago (just blocks from Sheridan). Here’s a sample of some of the proudly local…
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Ten Square: play that portrays ‘a different world’
In class recently, I played a piece of audio by Damali Ayo called “Living Flag” in which Ms. Ayo attempts to Panhandle for Reparations: collecting from whites, distributing her change to fellow Blacks. You can listen to the piece here. At the culmination of the piece, I tried to convince my teenage students that the idea…
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AREA/Chicago Release Party… inside and outside Chicago
(above, Pigasus [the pig candidate for President from the Yippie party] at a rally, Chicago 1968. classic Windy City protest) AREA/Chicago announces a publication release / art happening…. (AREA Chicago Art/Research/Education/Activism is a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting and networking local social, political and cultural movements.) AREA #9 Release Party marks the release of…
Art, Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Events, High Culture, Jive Culture, Magazines, Performance, Printed Matters, Visual ArtsAlex Yablon, anarchists in the suburbs, Andrew Greenlee, Anthony Rayson, art, Ashley Weger, Bert Stabler, Beth Gutelius, Brian Schultz, Carol Ng-He, Carrie Breitbach, Charlie Vinz, Chicago Arts, Chicago Otra, Claire Pentecost, Compass Group, Crandon mine campaign, CTA, Dale Asis, Dan Wang, Daniel Tucker, deindustrialization, demolition, Dinah Ramirez, disability activism, distribution, donation diasporas, Donna Kiser, ecology, Erin Moore, feminism, Forgotten Chicago, Gary, Gloria Ortiz, Great Lakes waterways, HIV in minority communities, Hobofest, Human Action Campaign Organization, immigration detention, Ishpeming, James Lane, Jayne Hileman, Joann Podkul, Joey Pizzolato, Larry Shure, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Laurie Palmer, Lorenza Perelli, Mairead Case, Mara Naselli, Mary Patten, MAS, Michelle Lugalia, Mike Wolf, Native American sites, Nazis in Skokie, neoliberal poetry, Nick Brown, Nicolas Lampert, Nicole Marroquin, No Se Vende, Notes for a People’s Atlas of Calumet, Paul Durica, Paul Sargent, Quincy Saul, Rebecca Zorach, regional energy, rural pilgrimage, Ryan Hollon, Sarah Kanouse, Sarah Kavage, Sean Noonan, slumming, Southeast Environmental Task Force, Southworks, sprawl, STAND, Steel Shavings, Stephanie Farmer, Steve Macek, suburban segregation, Sue Simensky Bietila, Tamms, teaching art on the south side, teaching urban studies in the suburbs, The Brownlands, the Burnham plan, used bookstores, Wade Tillett, world systems
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