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CHICAGO MAGAZINE

APRIL 2008
Theater Oobleck's "The Strangerer"

MARCH 2008
Chicago's handgun ban
Lebowski Fest
Pecha Kacha

THE SMOKING GUN: At the turn of the 20th century, the country's leading crusader against cigrarettes was a prickly, self-righteous zealot who declared smoking a hazard to human health and morals. Now, 100 years after Lucy Page Gaston nearly achieved a ban on cigarettes in Illinois, a new state law prohibits smokng in restaurants, bars, and public buildings – adding a fitting epilogue to her nearly forgotten story. (January 2008)

YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH: Chicago connections to Francis Ford Coppola's new film (December 2007)

Museum of Contemporary art exhibit on art and rock music, "Sympathy for the Devil" (October 2007)

"REEL CHICAGO," the history of the Essanay film studio (May 2007)

NORTH SHORE

Rainn Wilson interview (March 2007)

SIGNAL TO NOISE

THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF IMPROVISED, EXPERIMENTAL & UNUSUAL MUSIC

SPRING 2008
Baby Dee feature
Thrill Jockey 15th anniversary review
Evangelicals album review

WINTER 2008
Review of the Clark Street Bridge Percussion Orchestra and the new album by Black Mountain.

FALL 2007
Chicago's drone music scene

PASTE

MARCH 2008
4 to Watch: Throw Me the Statue

CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS

See the Jan. 14 issue for my story on Berry Chill yogurt.

See the Dec. 3, 2007, issue for my story on Crate & Barrel's television advertising campaign.

Bell's Beer is coming back to Chicago (Nov. 19, 2007)

TIME OUT CHICAGO

Book review: "Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago" (Dec. 27, 2007)

Chicago's Picasso sculpture turns 40 (Aug. 16, 2007)

Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella" at Ravinia, feature (July 17, 2007)

Ivan Brunetti interview (May 31, 2007)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Interivew with F. Lee Bailey on his book "When the Husband is the Suspect" (April 6)

PLAYBILL

See the April issue for my story on "Around the World in Eighty Days" at Lookingglass Theatre.

DAILY SOUTHTOWN

Pogues concert review (March 6)

Cat Power concert review (Feb. 11)

PIONEER PRESS

"Better Late" at Northlight Theatre, feature (April 3)

Harpist Alison Attar and flutist Anita Rieder (April 3)

Raymond Benson, author of "A Hard Day's Death" (April 3)

Rob Bochnik of the Frames, interview (March 20)

SXSW report, part 2 (March 17)

SXSW report, Part 1 (March 14)

CHICAGO READER

"Folksongs of Illinois" and Bucky Halker (May 25, 2007)

PUNK PLANET

Yes, alas, Punk Planet is now defunct, but here are a couple of articles I wrote for the magazine before its demise in 2007.

Frida Hyvönen interview (March/April 2007)

My Brightest Diamond (Shara Worden) interview (January/Feburary 2007)