Chicago
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pARTy at the MCA…
First Fridays at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Tomorrow, Fri. March 6th) Happy hour takes on a new meaning with First Fridays at the MCA. Cash bar featuring specialty drinks and free Wolfgang Puck appetizers. Enjoy live music from local DJs, the world’s only iMac G5 digital dating bar, creation stations, and more. Each month features…
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Vintage Portraits of Black Chicago: Sidewalk Fruit Vendors
Black sidewalk salesmen arranging their fresh fruits and vegetables on Chicago`s South Side. Photographed by John H. White, June 1973 “…Many of the city`s black businessmen started small and grew by working hard. Today Chicago is believed to be the black business capital of the United States. Black Enterprise Magazine reported in 1973 that the…
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Just one Look: the photography of Donnie Seals, Jr.
Eric (1996) by Donnie Seals, Jr., a local photographer and friend, who has now made his way to Nevada. For more of his work, click here.
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The Equalizer is Here…
Chicago-based Shala’s music is afro-punk/hip-hop/electro/freshness (and you can experience it tonight)… For the uninitiated, here’s a link to a sampling: get-yur Shala.-here Equalizer presents Shala. at Darkroom also featuring: Nikki Lynette mathpanda Doc Wattson and resident DJ LA*Jesus Friday, February 27, 2009 at 9:00pm – 2:00am Location: Darkroom Street: 2210 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL…
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New (Hip-Hop) America at the MCA
Coming this Saturday, a conversation about how hip-hop is influencing media and culture on every level, and whether that’s always a good thing… New America: Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Jeff Chang in conversation Saturday, February 28, 2009, 2 pm MCA Theater $10, $8 members, $6 students $6 with performance ticket for the break/s – the break/s…
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Stage Black at MPAACT
Stage Black, MPAACT 2009 Written by Lydia R. Diamond Directed by Mignon McPherson Nance In Stage Black a well-respected but under-produced African-American playwright, attempts to write the “perfect producible black play”. As the writer attempts to script the black play that falls within the comfort zones of white and black audiences, her subconscious leaps to…
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Black Merda? Black Rock.
The year is 1969 on the South Side of Chicago (21st & Michigan). Marshall Chess (son of Leonard Chess), has taken the helm at Chess Records (the Seminal Chicago Blues/Jazz/Gospel label). A fairly hip young cat, Marshall realizes that the hottest acts in popular music at the time borrowed (or gangstered) heavily from the roster at…
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Little Black Pearl presents: Portraits Carved in Black
I am a big fan of the starkness of Linoleum printmaking, and it’s exciting to see such an exhibition in the Bronzeville community… from Little Black Pearl: Portraits in Print- Larry Winston Collins Exhibition Saturday, February 28, 2009 “Portraits in Prints” Linoleum-Block Prints Exhibition by Larry Winston Collins sponsored by Citibank Saturday, February 28th Saturday,…
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Hip Hop’s Gospel Roots
Two genres that Chicago artists have left their indelible mark on, Gospel & Hip-Hop, were highlighted in this Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times, with a feature profile of Simeon Viltz from The Primeridian: From Sunday’s Sun-Times: February 22, 2009 BY DAVE HOEKSTRA dhoekstra@suntimes.com Like heavenly clouds, snippets of hip-hop rise from gospel music. “Simeon Viltz, who goes…
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