Critical Mass is a group of people in Chicago who meet the last Friday of every month. Their website can be found here: chicagocriticalmass.org/
This critical mass took place on May 25th, 2007 and there were probably a couple thousand bikes that took to the streets through downtown Chicago, Greektown, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, and Uptown [...]
Pitchfork Music Festival
Day Two
7/30/6
Chicago, Illinois
I was starting to worry about not ever getting to this point because it signifies the end for me after four days of rabid photo editing and blogging and it was also the best reason to attend Pitchfork this year. I’ve been a fan of Os Mutantes for a couple [...]
7/23/6
Wicker Park Street Festival
Day Two
Chicago
While I’m a fan of Joan of Arc, I’ve never really gotten into Make Believe, which is another band fronted by Tim Kinsella who has clearly been in enough important bands to have a wikipedia entry about him. There’s a real strong Chicago history with this musician and although I [...]
Intonation Festival Day Two
Chicago
Very liberally political lyrics set to hip hop.
I’m so proud of Chicago. For once, I felt like I was really a part of something and a part of my city. After tireless efforts, the anti war groups around the city were able to get a permit (by calling it a parade: “The Festival of Rights” (vs. lights) and actually making [...]
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I’ve always been against the death penalty for as long as I can remember and I’ve always looked at it as one of the most heinous actions any civilized society would take. In high school, one of my US Gov’t projects was debating the death penalty in which I looked into a side very [...]
Bush came to visit on Friday not without his own welcoming committee. Okay, so people weren’t really welcoming him. I took more pictures than I have in the past at other protests. This time, instead of focusing on capturing how many people were there (around 500-1,000 which is a great deal considering [...]
Note: I write this on Sunday 12/11/5 after having seen Al Franken on Friday 12/9 but I won’t be able to post it until after Christmas as a signed copy of Al’s newest book The Truth is being given to my dad by my mom as a surprise.
Well, Friday came around and I found myself [...]
The Tropicália movement emcompasses the artistic cultural revolution of Brazil between the years of 1968-1972. It covers everything from the odd art meets psychology philosophy of Lygia Clark to fashion of the time period to rare footage of musicians Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes especially. It features album covers with their original [...]
I bet Bush doesn’t get fortunes like these.