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My fabulous friend Jodi and my new friend Kayla came down from Milwaukee to see this show at The Charnel House. (I can’t actually make myself type the title. I had to use copy and paste just to get it in my title bar.) Before… Continue Reading “That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, at The Charnel House”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003BKF696&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI noticed something. Back in the day, before Out of Time and definitely before Green, the only radio station in Chicago that played R.E.M. was WXRT – 93.1. It seems that we have come full circle, because it is pretty much the only station… Continue Reading “Something about Music”
The Chicago Tribune ran an article about day trips that the cityfolk can take out to the suburbs on Metra. North Glenview made the list, thank you very much. We were called out for trips with kids, citing the childrens museum and the kiddie… Continue Reading “A Nice Shout Out”
My friend John is in this show. I would put up a picture of the playbill, but this is a family blog. Sort of. I suppose I must go see it, even though it’s an..untraditional piece. And you all know how I feel about… Continue Reading “Go See This”
“Retrofitting suburbia” has to be the lamest new catchphrase I have heard in a long time, but the Trib just wrote about the redevelopment of the Randhurst Mall in Mount Prospect. The short version is they demolished the entire shopping mall (save Carson’s and… Continue Reading “No One Outside the 847 Area Code Will Care About This”
Book 26 I snagged a charming hardcover copy of Studs Terkel’s Chicago from the Little City Book Sale. It is a mishmash of short essays – the jacket called it “a long prose poem” – pulled together in the mid-1980s. I think I am… Continue Reading “Chicago, by Studs Terkel”
Spring in Chicago always starts with the ugly melting remnants of winter. But then. Driving with the windows open again. Finally.
My brother, Scott, and I had talked about going to see a Chicago Rush game before the arena league suspended its season. The Chicago Slaughter is the other arena league team in the area. Bears Great Steve McMichael is the head coach, Jim McMahon… Continue Reading “Chicago Slaughter”
USA Today reported today: “Visitor counts at the Smithsonian Institution’s museums have rebounded to more than 30 million visits in 2009 for the first time since a slump following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.” The Smithsonian doesn’t charge admittance fees, so the economy… Continue Reading “The Good News”
CBS, in its ultimate suckage, required the city of Chicago to watch its halftime game recap rather than the tribute to Walter Payton that was being held on the field. I want it noted for the record that I called it – my mother… Continue Reading “The Payton Tribute”
The Next Dark Age 