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ROCK AND POP MUSIC FEATURES


Chicago's drone music
Signal to Noise, Fall 2007


ALMOST FAMOUS: The story of
"Left in the Dark," an often-covered song
(winner of the Peter Lisagor Award
for best arts reporting)
Pioneer Press, March 6, 2003

Frida Hyvönen
Punk Planet, March/April 2007


Tony Bennett
Pioneer Press, Aug. 26, 2004


My Brightest Diamond (Shara Worden)
Punk Planet, Jan./Feb. 2007

Eleventh Dream Day
Pioneer Press, May 11, 2006

Jay Bennett
Tape Op, May/June 2004

Jon Langford
Elgin Courier News / Pioneer Press
Jan. 19, 2006


Slicker (John Hughes III)
Pioneer Press, May 27, 2004


Robbie Fulks
Pioneer Press, May 12, 2005
Rufus Wainwright
Pioneer Press, Aug. 4, 2005 		 

STAGE

'The Producers' at Marriott Lincolnshire
Playbill, December 2007


Prop masters
Playbill, summer 2007


Behind the scenes of Silk,
a play by Mary Zimmerman
Pioneer Press, April 28, 2005
Frank Galati's After the Quake
Pioneer Press, Oct. 20, 2005

A map of locations associated
with David Mamet
Chicago Sun-Times / Pioneer Press
March 10, 2006


Play reviews
Pioneer Press, Feb. 2, 2006

 

 

FILM AND TELEVISION


Francis Ford Coppola's 'Youth Without Youth'
Chicago magazine, December 2007


History of Chicago's Essanay studio
Chicago magazine, April 2007
Cinema Obscura DVD
Crain's Chicago Business, Nov. 5, 2007
Block Museum's Alfred Hitchcock exhibit
Pioneer Press, Sept. 27, 2007


Ingmar Bergman's Saraband
(interview with producers)
Pioneer Press, July 21, 2005


2005 Chicago International
Film Festival reviews
Pioneer Press, Oct. 6, 2005

Fearless Freaks, Reel Paradise
and the 2005 Lake County Film Fest
Pioneer Press, March 31, 2005

Rainn Wilson interview
North Shore, March 2007

Culture Dish column on 'The Murray Effect'
First-place winner in Suburban Newspapers
of America contest, arts criticism
Pioneer Press, Aug. 11, 2005
Experts discuss The Sopranos
Pioneer Press, March 9, 2006 		   

AUTHORS

Karen Armstrong
Pioneer Press, April 13, 2006

Julian Barnes
Pioneer Press, Feb. 2, 2006

Rick Moody
Pioneer Press, Sept. 25, 2002

Audrey Niffenegger
Pioneer Press, Dec. 15, 2005

Richard Price
Pioneer Press, Feb. 5, 2003
Chuck Palahniuk
Pioneer Press, July 10, 2002		    

ART

MCA "Sympathy for the Devil" exhibit
Chicago magazine, October 2007
Chicago's Picasso turns 40
Time Out Chicago, Aug. 9-15, 2007
Fairfield Porter
Pioneer Press, June 7, 2007
History of Albin Polasek's
controversial sculpture The Sower
Pioneer Press, June 23, 2005


Interview with Ann Roberts,
editor of Jansen's History of Art


Ed Paschke obituary
Pioneer Press, Dec. 2, 2004


Profile of Allen Porter,
Bauhaus designer
Pioneer Press, May 18, 2006

MUSIC REVIEWS


Best Rock of 2005
Pioneer Press, Dec. 22, 2005

SXSW 2006
Pioneer Press , March 23, 2006


Spoon, Gimme Fiction
Playlist magazine, Summer 2005


Tom Waits, Real Gone
Playlist magazine, Winter 2005

CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURES


Newberry Consort Chinese concert
Pioneer Press, Sept. 29, 2005

Christopher O'Riley
Pioneer Press, June 9, 2005

Ravinia Festival's history
as told through documents
Pioneer Press, Aug. 12, 2004

WORLD MUSIC FEATURES


Antibalas
Pioneer Press, Sept.12, 2005

Mbira players from Zimbabwe
Pioneer Press, Nov. 4, 2004

Kiu Haghighi, Persian santour player
Pioneer Press, Aug. 25, 2005

NEWS

 

FEATURES

Brown's Chicken Murders
news analysis
Pioneer Press, March 22, 2007


Anti-cigarette crusader
Lucy Page Gaston
Chicago magazine, January 2008

History of the bikini
Daily Southtown, July 2, 2006

BUSINESS

Crate & Barrel TV ads
Crain's Chicago Business, Dec. 3, 2007
Smart Car
Crain's Chicago Business, July 30, 2007
Shoe entrepreneur
Crain's Chicago Business, Oct. 3, 2006