Heidi Beedle, Staff ReporterÂ
In my youth, I travelled quite a bit. I grew up in rural Virginia, and then joined the Army. Uncle Sam gave me the opportunity to visit South Korea, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, Germany and at least half a dozen states. I settled in Colorado Springs and put down roots. Iâve been here since 2005, and I have lived here longer than I have anywhere else. It is, definitively, home.
Last week I spent three days in Boston for the Association of Alternative Newspapers with a handful of otherÂ
Indy folks. The last time I was there, briefly, was probably 2004, when I visited a high school friend who lived there during leave from Iraq. It was wonderful to be back on the East Coast, the see the Atlantic Ocean and eat fresh seafood â oh my God, the seafood! â but I was strangely homesick the whole time.
Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of
Thing, felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993.
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Thing published ten issues between November 1989 and summer 1993. Zine cofounder Trent Adkins appears on the cover of the third issue, pictured here at lower left. Amber Huff In February 2021, dance-music site Selector republished a list of 100 important house records taken from a 1992 issue of a short-lived Chicago zine called
Crossfade. Chicago s House: A Checklist originally ran in November of that year as part of a story package about house history, sandwiched between a brief but trenchant essay by copublisher and editor Terry Martin on the birth and evolution of Chicago s underground dance culture and a six-page interview Martin had conducted with the godfather of house, Frankie
Last week the Chicago Philharmonic Society announced the appointment of a new executive director, Terell M. Johnson. A classically trained musician as well as an administrator, he ll succeed another musician-turned-administrator, Donna Milanovich, who s retiring after ten years in that job and more as a Chi Phil flutist and board member.
They were both in the limited audience at the Harris Theater Saturday night for a revelatory recording session that combined the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, under guest conductor Adrian Dunn, with the Adrian Dunn Singers. Johnson told me the resulting symphonic/gospel mashup is the kind of innovative programming that ll carry Chicago Philharmonic into the future.