Pitchfork Music Fest 2019: What we loved and what we could do without on day 3
The weather has been in a cranky mood all weekend, and the third and final day of the Pitchfork Music Festival got off to a late start because of thunder...
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Pitchfork Music Fest 2019: 8 things we loved on a dramatic day 2 (evacuating wasn’t one of them)
Drama was high during the second day of the Pitchfork Music Festival. The music fest started out dry and desperately hot until storms hit around 4:45 p.m., which resulted in...
Toto, the real live yacht rock kings, come to Chicago in October
You are going to read that Toto is coming to Chicago in October as a part of its "40 Trips Around the Sun" tour, and one of those butter-smooth ditties...
One man’s obsession with design and trash in a Euro-style trash bin
Is Bo a him? An it? Can you fall in love with a dumpy-but-elegant yellow thing? It all began with a magazine article with the headline “12 Actually Good-Looking Kitchen...
Millennium Park music series is an amazing sonic tour that is free — check out these gems
Life is weird, people. There you are, head bobbing away to the amazing instrumental version of “Life,” by the late, great J Dilla, and the Millennium Park music schedule comes...
Five things to roll in, real or otherwise, at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show
There was a time when you went to the Chicago Auto Show, and the only moving thing you rode in was your personal vehicle. Or the kids drove you crazy...
You’re at the Auto Show but don’t dig cars. Here’s five things you can do instead
So. You love someone. We know that you love someone because you're at the Chicago Auto Show, and you don’t like cars. It isn’t that you don’t like cars. You...
Getting to the 2019 Chicago Auto show, by bus, car, truck or …
This the place to be for gearheads, tire kickers, pre-shoppers and those planning to head for a dealer lot that weekend. The 2019 Chicago Auto Show starts Saturday. The 111th...
Cody Parkey is better at his job than you are at yours
Bears kicker Cody Parkey is better at his job than you are at yours. It’s simple math. There are 32 NFL teams. This means that Parkey is one of the...
The Dead walk again — Dead & Company return to Wrigley in June
The Grateful Dead tentacles stretch far and wide, and zombie analogies notwithstanding, the Dead continue to stomp the terra, in this case Dead & Company, the band made up of...