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CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURES / WORLD MUSIC FEATURES / NEWS & HISTORY / BUSINESS

ROCK AND POP MUSIC FEATURES


Baby Dee
Signal to Noise, Spring 2008


Throw Me the Statue
Paste, March 2008
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


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

Eleventh Dream Day
Pioneer Press, May 11, 2006


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


Rufus Wainwright
Pioneer Press, Aug. 4, 2005

Robbie Fulks
Pioneer Press, May 12, 2005

Tony Bennett
Pioneer Press, Aug. 26, 2004

Jay Bennett
Tape Op, May/June 2004


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


"Folksongs of Illinois"
Chicago Reader, May 25, 2007 		   

STAGE

RADIO REPORT
The Wizard of Oz: A look back at the 1902 stage version
Chicago Public Radio WBEZ "Eight Forty-Eight" segment
April 28, 2009
Chicago Theater Collection at the Chicago Public Library
Playbill, April 2009
Penny Pitch: So far, Chicago theatres seem recession proof. So why do the biggest ones want tax breaks?
Chicago Magazine, April 2009
Our Town at Lookingglass
Playbill, March 2009

Chicago, Center Stage
Playbill, December 2008


Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire
Playbill, May 2008


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


Action Heroes:
26 people who make films happen
in Chicago—plus three newcomers
making their mark. Includes my
interviews with Harold Ramis,
Joan Cusack, Neil LaBute,
Joe Swanberg and others
Chicago magazine, February 2009
(co-written with Jeff Ruby)
Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, the Chicago connections
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


Rainn Wilson interview
North Shore, March 2007

Experts discuss The Sopranos
Pioneer Press, March 9, 2006

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

Culture Dish column on 'The Murray Effect' (First-place winner in Suburban Newspapers of America contest, arts criticism)
Pioneer Press, Aug. 11, 2005
Ingmar Bergman's Saraband
(interview with producers)
Pioneer Press, July 21, 2005
Fearless Freaks, Reel Paradise
and 2005 Lake County Film Fest
Pioneer Press, March 31, 2005


Interview with Guy Maddin
Pop Matters, Aug. 14, 2008

AUTHORS

The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age by Neil Harris
Chicago magazine, November 2008
Ivan Brunetti interview
Time Out Chicago, May 31, 2007
Karen Armstrong
Pioneer Press, April 13, 2006
Julian Barnes
Pioneer Press, Feb. 2, 2006

Audrey Niffenegger
Pioneer Press, Dec. 15, 2005

Richard Price
Pioneer Press, Feb. 5, 2003

Rick Moody
Pioneer Press, Sept. 25, 2002

Chuck Palahniuk
Pioneer Press, July 10, 2002

ART

Art Shay interview
Pioneer Press, March 28-29, 2007
MCA's 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
Pioneer Press

Ed Paschke obituary
Pioneer Press, Dec. 2, 2004

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

MUSIC REVIEWS

CONCERT REVIEWS FOR THE SOUTHTOWN STAR NEWSPAPER
M. Ward (April 28, 2009) / Andrew Bird (April 11, 2009) / Tricky (March 16, 2009) / Adele (Jan. 20, 2009)
Neil Young (Dec. 10, 2008) / Drive-By Truckers and Hold Steady (Nov. 11, 2008) / TV on the Radio (Oct 23, 2008)
Nick Cave (Sept. 30, 2008) / My Bloody Valentine (Sept. 29, 2008) / Hideout Block Party (Sept. 22, 2008) / Sam Phillips (Sept. 8, 2008)
Lollapalooza Day 3 (April 4, 2008) / Lollapalooza Day 2 (April 3, 2008 / Lollapalooza Day 1 (April 2, 2008)
Pogues (March 6, 2008) / Hives (March 2, 2008) / Cat Power (Feb. 11, 2008)

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

RADIO APPEARANCE
Guest on "Radio M,"
playing indie rock music
from around the world
Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ
July 25, 2008

NEWS & HISTORY


When another Senate seat was for sale
Huffington Post, Jan. 6, 2009

RADIO APPEARANCE: Interview on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ's "Eight Forty Eight" discussing the story
Jan. 14, 2009
RADIO APPEARANCE
Interview on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ's "Eight Forty-Eight" discussing North Shore magazine story "General Dawes' War"
Sept. 4, 2008


Jane Addams and the documentary "Out & Front"
Chicago magazine, June 2008

A Conservatory, a Zoo, and 12,000 Corpses: An artist digs for the truth about Lincoln Park and the Chicago City Cemetery
Chicago Reader, May 15, 2008

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


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


History of the bikini
Daily Southtown, July 2, 2006

 

BUSINESS

Coolest Offices
Crain's Chicago Business, Dec. 1, 2008
Record labels find revenue by licensing songs for TV, film
Crain's Chicago Business, Nov. 3, 2008
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