Events
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Matériel Magazine and Pr Launch Party in Bridgeport
from the local folks who bring us the mags Lumpen and Proximity……. Matériel Magazine and Pr Launch Party and fundraiser for Version Festival “Please come and help us raise funds to pay for Version>09 Immodest Proposals. We will be giving to everyone who attends a complementary copy of our new publishing projects, Matériel and the…
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Vocalo.org: Live Radio Broadcast in North Lawndale
Vocalo.org (89.5FM), the community-based radio station/website, will be broadcasting live this Friday, March 20th (tomorrow) at Carter’s Barbershop in the North Lawndale community of Chicago. Their current tagline is: “Real Talk. Local Music. No Commercials. “, and they play a blend of user-generated audio (interviews, opinions) and music (with a heavy emphasis on local groups…
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Bust out your Piggy Banks…
Time to start saving up…. the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is coming back to Chicago (at the gorgeous Auditorium Theatre). highlights of this year’s program include: Night Creature – One of Ailey’s most classically choreographed ballets juxtaposed within Ellington’s jazz idiom – the dance capitvates with Ailey’s sexy nocturnal rituals that propel the movement…
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Exita el Exceso… an art exhibition in Bridgeport
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7 | 7pm-12am 2nd Friday Viewing: Friday, March 13 | 6pm-10pm The Chicago Art Department is proud to present “Evita el Exceso”, new works by Tripa Co. In the second coming of Tripa Colectivo, Mike Wilgus joins the experimental artist group in their continued exploration of culture and gender issues embedded…
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Raphael Saadiq is….
….in town and performing at the Park West tonight. He dropped by my day job today. Oh yes… and he glows in person). Anyway… in recognition, I’m dusting off a favorite. Enjoy.
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Cocktails and Clay (this Friday the 13th)
Perhaps one of the greatest (Nancy Reagan-approved) conceptions of sensual overload ever! Hyde Park brings it back one-mo’-gin (in a special Freaky Friday the 13th edition….but not too freaky):
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friday night lights: J*Davey at the Vic
Coming Friday… J*Davey Live in Chicago at the Victor Hotel Tickets available at: http://www.jdavey.eventbrite.com or Dr Wax Records 5226 S Harper Ave 773-493-8696 Silver Room 1442 N Milwaukee 773-278-7130 Who?? J*Davey called their double album “The Beauty in Distortion/The Land of the Lost”. I call that fitting. The sound is sort of Mad Max Electric…
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Support Your Local Record Store @ Sonotheque (TONITE)
Nuff Said. …..wait, that’s a lie. One more thing to say. Click here for my interview with the folks from Beverly Records (a spot near Mr. Peabody’s shop, on 116th and Western, that’s been around since the 1960s).
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Freedom of Speech and Graffiti
Kuumba Lynx Presents “Open Mindz”: an open mic and writers’ bench hosted by young spoken word lioness FM SUPREME (pictured) and Graffiti legend Nerd. Tonite (3.6.09) 6pm-9pm Clarendon Park (montrose and clarendon) 4501 N Clarendon, Chicago
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Freedom of Speech and Movement Acts
Presented in conjunction with Saudade… Freedom of Speech and Movement: a dance workshop at Hull-House Museum: Freedom of Speech and Movement Acts Movement Workshop with Taisha Pagget of the David Roussève/REALITY dance company Thursday, March 12, 12-1:30 p.m. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 800 S. Halsted Ave. This workshop is free and open to the public-…
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