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North Coast Music Festival

Toast Of The Coast Battle Of The Bands Tonight

West LoopThe North Coast Music Festival is ramping up for its second year this Labor Day Weekend. Tonight they're choosing three acts to perform on the main stage out of ten finalists. Over a hundred acts...
Electric Forest

Electric Forest Festival Recap

Chicago AreaIf there was any doubt about Electric Forest living up to Rothbury's high festy standards, it's gone now. After a weekend in the woods with bluegrass, jam, a variety of electronic music, and some...
Sherwood Forest

Electric Forest: On Fire!

Chicago AreaThe first night at Electric Forest included not only a lot of good music, but buckets of rain, and electrical storms. The "Electric" forest title really lived up to its name with crazy jagged...
Van Ghost

Electric Forest Festival: Chicago Artist Spotlight

Chicago AreaMusic festival season is in full swing and the Midwest's largest mid summer music fest kicks off today. The Electric Forest Festival, located in Rothbury, MI on the former grounds of the now defunct...
Summer Camp Music Festival 2011

Muddy Times: Summer Camp Music Festival 2011

IllinoisSummer Camp Music Festival marked the beginning of my summer festival season and despite downpours and tornado near hits leading up to Memorial Day Weekend, I was determined to make this one count....
Billy Branch

Smoke Daddy's Singing The Blues Festival

Ukrainian Village / East VillageThe Chicago Blues Festival this weekend, and barbecue and blues spot Smoke Daddy (1804 W Division St, 773-772-6656 is hosting several of the artists starting tonight. Catch Billy Branch, Diamond Jim...
Celebrating 60611 on 6.06.11 at River East Art Center

Celebrating 60611 on 6.06.11!

If you live, work or just like to play in the 60611 zip code area, you won't want to miss the next week of events as we celebrate our namesake!  To commemorate this once-in-a-lifetime celebration,...
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan

Innovative Production of Peter Pan Extended

West LoopIf you've driven down Chicago Avenue between Halsted and the river you might have seen a big tent at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center. If you haven't been inside that tent yet, you've got more time...

Open Books

Chicago            Let’s talk about literacy for a moment.  It is the ability to read and write and it is (I believe) the gateway skill most human beings will acknowledge helped them succeed in most of...
Go do good six-story mural

Go Do Good! Chicago Public Art Display Aims for 100,000 Good Deeds

LoopIf you happened to be on State Street in the central loop area this week, chances are you were a spectator to Chicago’s Art Loop 2011 public art campaign.  On Tuesday, Chicago Loop Alliance unveiled...

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