The blues patriarch also had three sons who played together as the Kinsey Report.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
The Secret History of Chicago Music has often had to contend with the question of geography. I ve counted artists as from Chicago even when they ve been based as far away as Champaign, Illinois, provided they have strong ties to our city. Oddly, I ve rarely done this across state lines, even for near neighbors in Gary, Indiana which is about two hours closer by car than Champaign. In any case, I set my own rules here (and there are rules!), so I m rewriting them to declare Lester Big Daddy Kinsey the greatest Chicago bluesman from Gary.
click to enlarge The west side garage where a man was found unresponsive in his car In late August, a man was found unresponsive in his car outside the west side location of the Chicago Recovery Alliance, a local overdose prevention and harm reduction group, according to former employee Nikki Carter. After Carter said she believed a responding employee was taking an uncharacteristically long time to treat the man and return to the office, she said she went out to help and saw other responding workers shaking the car and banging on the window. Carter, a former project manager and drug checking technician at the organization, said it was later discovered that the man had been in the car for more than two hours before anyone noticed him.
click to enlarge Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jack Mitchell
This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was virtual, and its offerings trimmed down from previous years. It included 73 feature films, 50 short films, four Indie Series, 23 talks and events, and 14 New Frontier multimedia projects. We watched 38 of the 73 films, including most of the award winners. Here are some sneak peaks of our favorites to look for in the year to come.
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Some things are excruciatingly difficult to articulate in words, and can only be expressed in an abstract manner such as dance. Things such as the lonely success of Alvin Ailey, a gay man born in the depression in 1931 who, against all odds, was able to realize his dream. Choreographer, former Ailey company member, and friend George Faison reflects on their groundbreaking w
This has been a helluva week for Second City news. On Wednesday,
Financial Times first published reports of an imminent sale of the comedy behemoth to private equity firm ZMC, owned by Strauss Zelnick. Zelnick is the CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, home of the
Grand Theft Auto game franchise. On Thursday, those rumors were confirmed by ZMC; they declined to name the purchase price, but
FT said that the company was expected to fetch about $50 [million].
Coincidentally, Wednesday was also when the newly formed Association of International Comedy Educators, a union for the arts educators and facilitators who teach at Second City, announced that they had filed cards with the National Labor Relations Board seeking recognition as a bargaining unit from Second City. Under the local umbrella of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Chicago chapter of AICE represents 160 instructors at Second City. (The branches in Hollywood and Toronto will be represented through Commun