Riot Fest 2010 announces lineup
Jul. 8, 2010
City Life: The four fedoras
Jul. 8, 2010
It’s been a few weeks now, there’s a truck that parks on my street with four fedoras arrayed on the dashboard, two folded together, one on top of the other almost obscuring it. The light dances off the windshield and gives the treasures inside a sparkly shine: the dashboard as vitrine.
Revision Street: Edgewater
Jul. 8, 2010
Architecture takes a holiday: Chicago people in photos
Jul. 8, 2010
(photo by Lee Bey)
I went to to the African-Caribbean International Festival of Life last weekend in Washington Park.
Album review: Big Boi of Outkast returns
Jul. 8, 2010
Big Boi, "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty" (Purple Ribbon/Def Jam) Rating: 3/4
Antwan “Big Boi” Patton generally is portrayed as the more down-to-earth half of the multi-platinum-selling hip-hop duo Outkast, the streetwise rapper who balances the wiggy psychedelic excesses of “André 3000” Benjamin, who’s viewed as the real hitmaker of the team. But nothing ever is that simple with this gonzo pair.
Big Boi’s “Speakerboxxx” may have been the more traditional party disc compared to André 3000’s “The Love Below” (2003), but there still was plenty of weirdness on both halves of that double-disc release. While his counterpart gave us the immortal “Hey Ya!,” Big Boi proved he was more than capable of crafting a killer hit of his own with the 2005 single “Kryptonite (I’m on It).”
What to do when Pam Zekman comes calling
Jul. 8, 2010Editor's note: Robert Feder is off until July 13. While he's away, we're running "The Best of Feder." The following post originally appeared on Feb. 15, 2010:
Pam Zekman
For years, the seven most dreaded words in the English language were: "Mike Wallace is here to see you." So feared was the grand inquisitor of "60 Minutes" that mere mention of his name made corrupt politicians, crooked businessmen and other assorted scoundrels quake in their loafers.
Wallace, 91, is officially retired from "60 Minutes" now, and the interrogation style that he made famous is rarely seen on network television these days. But in Chicago, there's still one investigative reporter whose name evokes a similar reaction of abject panic. I'm referring to Pam Zekman, the diminutive dynamo of WBBM-Channel 2.
Revision Street: Tom Shepherd (III)
Jul. 7, 2010I’ve been asking Tom Shepherd, down in Pullman, how the new Wal-Mart will affect things in the area.
Requiem for a drive-in theater
Jul. 7, 2010
(photo by Lee Bey)
That the drive-in movie theater has largely gone the way of the rotary phone and 8-track tape player is one of those little oddities of our age.