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With an impressive cast led by Dame Helen Mirren and that perpetual scenery-chewer Al Pacino plus a legendary director-writer, Chicagoan David Mamet, hopes were high for Phil Spector, the HBO movie that debuts on Sunday and which charts the murder trial of the legendary architect of the Wal

The Trib and the Sun-Times both had the story yesterday that the city’s Plan Commission will hear a proposal on Thursday to expand the temporary concert venue that giant promoters Ticketmaster/Live Nation erect on Northerly Island every summer to add almost six more acres of lawn seating and e

The popular fundraising site just revived 'Veronica Mars' for the big screen, but not all Kickstarter projects are worth your hard-earned money.

Shout Out Out Out Out and a songwriting session with Spoon, Superchunk and The dB's provide an antidote to an over-emphasis on branding at the conference.

All the craziness of SXSW is worth it when you find bands like Savages.

One band from Mexico embodied the lessons on social networking being peddled at the music conference in Austin, Tx.

Who is the real Dave Grohl—the big dumb drummer, or the one who spoke so movingly at SXSW? I don’t know, and I’m not sure it matters.