Here is a look at my picks for the best shows this weekend.
Buzz Osborne of the might Melvins
Nightclubbing: the Melvins, Maps & Atlases, David Singer, and more
Jun. 25, 2010
Feder's Chicago media flashback: June 1987
Jun. 25, 2010An assortment of news items (updated and annotated) from my Chicago Sun-Times columns of 23 years ago this week:
BREAKING: Illinois Attorney General investigating Lollapalooza for anti-trust
Jun. 24, 2010
The office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is investigating Lollapalooza sponsors C3 Presents and their partners for anti-trust issues stemming from the radius clauses that the Austin, Texas-based concert promoters impose on all of the artists who play the giant, three-day concert in Grant Park, according to numerous sources familiar with the investigation.
Revision Street: Claire, 28
Jun. 24, 2010A blonde with quiet features, Claire—a former mortgage broker—would have made for an unusual presence in the stolid environment of the bank, as she seems perfectly at home in the hip, eco-friendly salon where she cuts hair. She’s not here for the politics, however: she tells me flat out, “I’m not really a save-the-world person.” Right now, she’s just a hairstylist with an eye on a job with corporate.
What was it like, being a mortgage broker, knowing what you know now?
It was fun. You were putting people into their first homes. That’s a big deal for people.
St. Raphael (travelers' patron) calls a pair of closed Chicago churches 50 miles north
Jun. 24, 2010
(photo by Lee Bey)
Album review: Drake, "Thank Me Later," and Bert Jansch tonight
Jun. 24, 2010
Drake, "Thank Me Later" (Universal/Motown)
Rating: 3.5/4
If the soul-sapping seductiveness of crack and cocaine -- selling them and consuming them -- was the major theme inspiring much of the best hip-hop from the '90s until early in the new millennium, an argument can be made that during the last few years, the most talented and innovative rappers have been chronicling an even more destructive and pervasive addiction in these new digital times: the allure of celebrity.
Kathy & Judy fight back: 'We did not lie to our listeners'
Jun. 24, 2010In all the years I've known them personally and professionally, I don't think I'd ever heard Kathy O'Malley and Judy Markey as upset as they sounded on the phone together Wednesday. I mean they were fit to be tied.
Medill fellowship pays tribute to John Callaway
Jun. 23, 2010
John Callaway, one of Chicago's most respected and influential broadcast journalists of all time, will be memorialized in an online journalism fellowship at Northwestern University.