For a comprehensive look at Vasquez’s journey through hip-hop, here’s my 2019 profile of him as he ran for 40th Ward alder
I can’t wait to watch The Social Reckoning on Tubi
I hadn’t noticed the Monster Energy drink logo till now
"Tash from Alkaholiks had a big bottle of Hennessy, and he was just pouring shots into the mouths of anybody that was in the crowd."
My epic oral history of the Dinkytowner Café, now up @racketmn.com. Subscribe today!
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Everybody wants to be there to be there to get their picture taken at the ribbon cutting ... and then they disappear. For the Reader, Olivia Hunter Willke documents the shameful neglect and deterioration of James Turrell's Hard Scrabble Sky at UIC.
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i feel like the obama presidential library is missing a little something. it’s nothing too big, mind you, just a place with an unfussy design and a sorta french name…
Mornin
Brand new Gossip Wolf:
-Redux Radio celebrates its first year with a 20-track comp!
-globally minded dance series Trench drops its first comp too!
-Laceles plays a @katmabu.bsky.social fundraiser at Bookclub!
-see improvisational environmental music in a cemetery!
-Bric-a-Brac celebrates year 13!
I didn’t include this in the column (because I haven’t had the chance to listen to it closely yet), but I love that Serengeti dropped another Kenny Dennis album over the weekend, dude’s still working on a great American novel about a regular Chicago guy
kennydennis.bandcamp.com/album/kennyv