Mirah @ Logan Square Auditorium
Quite by accident, I ended up standing sandwiched between two people whose blogs and flickr photostreams I follow regularly (thanks, chicagobloggers.com), but had never met in real life. I know their names, a canonical list of favorite books, movies and bands courtesy of Facebook, the names of their friends, where they [...]
Category Archives: music
See and be Scene
18-Jul-07The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
23-Jun-07
The Fiery Furnaces @ Empty Bottle
It’s live music season again.
Yesterday - Dios, The Fiery Furnaces
Sunday - The Wrens @ Belmont Arts and Music Festival
Tuesday - Grant Park Orchestra - Copland, Barber, Bernstein
Thursday - Bela Fleck & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
NB: I have one extra (free!) ticket to Thursday’s Bela Fleck show, front [...]
Bring back Springsteen, Madonna
25-Sep-06My next-door neighbor Tim has started a band.
Until recently, his musical pursuits had so far been limited to grooveless, jerky drumming—the kind of dyskinetic mishmash one might expect from a percussionist with advanced Parkinson’s disease—and loud, thrashy powerchords pumped through his Wal-mart guitar amp. He hadn’t ever played any real songs per se; most [...]
