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Friday, 22 January 2010 01:49 |
By Francis Scudellari
There's some interesting music being birthed deep in the bowels of the building at 1515 W. Howard Street in Rogers Park.
A group of guitar players and artists are letting their imaginations transform the seemingly simple studio space into a roomy mountain lodge with a fire blazing and a snowy riverbank just outside the window. The posh surroundings may exist only in their minds, but the music these day-dreamers create is very real.
Guitar Friends Studio offers a new approach in learning how to play the guitar. The Affective Immersion Project (AIP) was invented by the studio's director, Ron Scroggin, though he gives a lot of credit for the discovery of its technique to earlier work he did with guitarists Howard Roberts and Jessica Galang.
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 23:02 |
 By Julie Saltzman
Come on a lyrical journey.
With drinks, food, and live music in a cozy candle-lit booth, 2nd story hopes you will be inspired to tell your tales after hearing theirs, without ever leaving Rogers Park.
2nd story, a hybrid performance event combining storytelling and live music produced by the Serendipity Theater Collective, is coming to the Morseland restaurant and bar (1218 W. Morse Ave., 773.764.8900) on the last Wednesday of every single month.
Kicking off the series, will be a preview performance on December 16, a remount of their recent presentation at the Bagdad Theater and Pub in Portland, OR, as part of the Woodstock Literary Festival.
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Friday, 16 October 2009 20:45 |
 By K.D. Hopkins
Last Sunday, I ventured over to Portage Park to see a preview of “Vaudezilla’s Monster Burlesque Academy.” This is going to be a howling good time. The show is taking place in the historic Portage Theater (4050 N Milwaukee Ave.), which presents art house movies and concerts in a grand setting. The theater also stood in for the Biograph in the film “Public Enemies.” It is a great place for live shows as well.
Ann Weinert, aka Red Hot Annie, and her partner Dick Dijon produce Vaudezilla. They have put together a treat for adults only with a modern spin on the art of burlesque, and a nice dose of Gothic spookiness.
You can look forward to Miss Barrett All doing a spicy take on Hannibal the Cannibal Lechter. Miss Carnal Calamity will dazzle you with her artistic prowess.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 01:54 |
By Nancy Backas
If you’ve lived in Rogers Park for more than a decade, you know the saga of the local movie theater located at 6746 N. Sheridan Road now renamed with a nod to its original moniker, The New 400.
When I first moved to the North Side in 1980, there were a number of local movie theaters. I used to spend my afternoons watching double features at The Varsity in Evanston. The 400 was another theater I frequented, as was the Adelphi Theater which was located at Clark and Estes.
While my friends and I enjoyed the cache of the old theaters, they were admittedly shabby, uncomfortable and often dirty. We used to joke that the rats ran over your feet which were sticking to the floor from spilled soda.
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Saturday, 03 October 2009 00:26 |
 By Janet Potter
Guns, homosexuality, abortion, and farming crowd themselves into the first three minutes of the new documentary What’s the Matter With Kansas? in a veritable crash course in red-state stereotypes. The film never apologizes for these stereotypes, nor does it try to disprove them because, one realizes after a full viewing, the filmmakers themselves were never convinced that the stereotypes weren’t legitimate.
What’s the Matter With Kansas? is based loosely on Thomas Frank’s book of the same name, published in 2004. Frank, a Kansas native, former Republican, and now Wall Street Journal columnist and outspoken critic of Republican policy, wrote the book in an attempt to explain why Kansas – historically famous for its radical politics – has become a stronghold of conservative politics, often to its own detriment.
The book deals mainly with socio-economic trends and highlights the bizarre alliance between predominantly blue-collar workers and big-business interests. The cause, he argues, is the Republican party’s influence in the culture wars.
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