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CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURES / WORLD MUSIC FEATURES / NEWS & HISTORY / BUSINESS
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ROCK AND POP MUSIC FEATURES |

Baby Dee
Signal to Noise, Spring 2008
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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 |
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Slicker (John Hughes III)
Pioneer Press, May 27, 2004
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"Folksongs of Illinois"
Chicago Reader, May 25, 2007 |
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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
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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
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The Producers at Marriott Lincolnshire
Playbill, December 2007 |

Prop masters
Playbill, summer 2007 |
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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)
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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ART
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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
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Interview with Ann Roberts,
editor of Jansen's History of Art
Pioneer Press
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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)
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CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURES |
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WORLD MUSIC FEATURES |
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NEWS & HISTORY |
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Anti-cigarette crusader
Lucy Page Gaston
Chicago magazine, January 2008 |

Brown's Chicken Murders:
news analysis
Pioneer Press, March 22, 2007
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History of the bikini
Daily Southtown, July 2, 2006
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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 |
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