Archive for the ‘Chicago’ Category
Soul: Winter Garden
13 Aug 2009I’m spending a day doing sermon prep for the sneak preview and the first two weeks of Greenhouse. Up nine escalators in three locations, at the top of Harold Washington Library is one of Chicago’s most serene spaces, the Winter Garden, so named because in the winter it would feel like a springtime garden [...]
Soul: Margot
23 Jul 2009I won’t be around this time, but if you are, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s are playing Sunday at Wicker Park Fest, around 8pm.
Here’s “Pages Written on a Wall”.
The Hold Steady (Music Friday)
19 Jun 2009On Sunday night, one of America’s finest live bands takes the stage for a $10 show at the Taste of Randolph Street festival, 8-9:30pm, near Randolph & Racine. The Hold Steady are highly celebrated for their Springsteen-esque chops, their storytelling and their ability to rock out like few other bands. I’ve heard them [...]
Saturday. Ribfest. Margot. Go.
10 Jun 2009If you only go to one neighborhood festival this year, you should probably choose Taste of Randolph Street, since the Hold Steady might be the most perfect choice for a street festival band in the history of street festivals (June 21). However, I’d be remiss if I didn’t put a vote in for what’s going [...]
2009 Summer Festivals in Chicago
27 May 2009While this week has looked more like April showers than Spring flowers, summer is indeed just around the corner. And with it comes all of the street festivals you can handle. In Chicago, each weekend different neighborhoods and organizations create festivals with music, food and much more. Most are free, none are expensive. It’s one [...]
Goodbye Winter. Hello Spring.
In: Chicago
21 May 2009After at least six months of the worst winter I can remember, we’re finally hitting spring, which will too quickly give way to summer. I’m a spring/fall kind of person, and there’s nowhere better in the whole world to spend these weeks than Chicago. However, I would wager that our time of 70° [...]
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