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A Community Song
Under the soaring sunlit exposed brick heights of The Industrial Ballroom in Chicago, the room packed with neighbors.
If you listen hard, you can still hear the clink, clank dusty memories of when they manufactured product, when they made things for the world in this room and all the old…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on May 3, 2013 at 12:35pm — 1 Comment
Richie Havens Strength of Song
Richie Havens went on first.
Other acts were stuck in traffic. Some balked at leading off. So by the time they all got to Woodstock, Richie Havens was up there singing about freedom.
Isn’t it amazing that you can say “Woodstock’ and every single person who reads the word,…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on April 23, 2013 at 12:00pm — 19 Comments
Watching Over Boston
It’s Boston. Of course they’re here.
Right over there. In the spring breeze sun. At a table with a view. Spencer with a dark beer, Susan drinking something pink and of course Hawk has champagne. Robert B. Parker’s characters.…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on April 17, 2013 at 4:45am — 8 Comments
A Family Is Still Here
Returned to the sea by Hurricane Sandy, the house where this video was filmed is gone. But the family, spread out across wild oceans and sprawling continents, is still here. Circling the globe from Wales to Northern California. Still connected. Across any given border of time, distance or trial. Much of…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on April 14, 2013 at 10:27am — 6 Comments
Roger Ebert's Eyes
Spring is coming. Roger Ebert can’t have died.
The news filtered out on a clear and astonishingly quiet afternoon in April.
“Ebert died.”
“What?”
“No.”
“I don’t believe it.”
Every computer screen across the city sizzles white cold and empty. How do you say…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on April 4, 2013 at 3:43pm — 6 Comments
One Radical Easter Morning
As the laughing young couple paused in front of my house while their dog, straight out of Paris Hilton’s purse, made a tiny little dog poo on our scraggly grass city lawn; the last thing I was thinking was turn the other cheek..
Watching them through…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on March 30, 2013 at 10:38am — 7 Comments
Bach's Birthday & Hands from Different Stars
Imagine the hands reaching into that spacecraft and pulling out Bach’s music.
When the two Voyager Spaceships launched in 1977, bound for unfathomably distant, unknown stars, there was more music by Bach tucked inside, than by…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on March 21, 2013 at 8:52am — 2 Comments
For No One
"Because if I end the story, I will fade to black. So make your own damn ending. I don’t remember. Yeah. That’s it. I don’t remember how it ended.”
The old man whispering a rumbling stream of words in a voice like thunder that had forgotten how to roar. The inside of the neighborhood tavern…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on March 18, 2013 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments
The Keka Collection--A Book WELCOMES You
Open up “The Keka Collection” to any page and instantaneously you’ll know that you’re in the hands of a master writer. The reason is that no matter what she’s writing about, she lets you see it too. It’s all in glorious color, sound, taste, smell and touch.…
Added by Chicago Guy on March 15, 2013 at 10:46am — 8 Comments
Dawn Clark Netsch Dies
Dawn Clark Netsch, the tiny, whip smart, political force of kindness and simply doing good across the political landscape of Illinois for six decades, died this morning from complications of ALS. She was 86.…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on March 5, 2013 at 10:01am — No Comments
Willie B For Pope
My pal Willie B should be the next Pope. He’d be great.
Does anyone know the email for The Vatican Human Resources Department? I want to send in an application for Willie B.…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on March 3, 2013 at 10:30am — 7 Comments
"Hypnotized" (Best Stuff OC)
You begin your journey to past lives in the waiting room of a dentist’s…
Added by Chicago Guy on March 1, 2013 at 9:00pm — 11 Comments
George Harrison at 70 & 170
Inspired by Chicago radio legend Terri Hemmert . . .
One hundred years from right now, on the 170th anniversary of George Harrison’s birth, a circle of tiny kids sitting on the floor of a classroom will be led by a smiling Second…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on February 24, 2013 at 12:10pm — 13 Comments
FORGIVING JESSE JACKSON JR.?
FORGIVING JESSE JACKON JR.?
A cloudy and cold community shudder ripples through the street corner spirits, the beauty shops, basements, diners and donut shops of Chicago.
Jesse…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on February 22, 2013 at 3:30pm — 14 Comments
IT'S ON SALE!!!!!
Yes I know it’s a tad obsessive. Checking amazon every oh. . .lets just say “a lot.” But at 6:00 this morning, my new book, “Finding Work When There Are No Jobs,” that book where I thank all the people of OUR SALON, was priced at $14.99. And when I checked at, well. .…
Added by Chicago Guy on February 13, 2013 at 10:30am — 5 Comments
Michelle Obama's Covered Hot Dish
Between the moment she decided to come home to Chicago for her neighbor’s funeral, and the moment she walked in the side door of the giant church, I can almost guarantee you that Michelle Robinson Obama had the thought flash through her head, “I wish I could bring a covered hot…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on February 9, 2013 at 12:30pm — 27 Comments
Blackfire: The Books of Bairnmoor
When the movie deal is signed for BLACKFIRE: The Books of Bairnmoor Volume One, selecting the right art director will be key. Because the journey portrayed by the band of children…
Added by Chicago Guy on February 8, 2013 at 10:00am — 9 Comments
Saving the NEWS!
“News operations go dark every day, Roger. Of course I know about the Center Square Journal. So what?”
Lester 'The Lip’ Lapczynski never bothered with ‘Hello.’ Holding court in his…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on February 1, 2013 at 3:30pm — 9 Comments
Gunshots In The Rain: Hadiya Pendleton's Story
Just before the rain and the gunshots on a Tuesday afternoon . . .
The temperature hits 60 in January, in Chicago and if you’re 15 years old,…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on January 30, 2013 at 10:30am — 20 Comments
Royko's Ghost
If the joint had not been empty, somebody would have wondered what Mayor Rahm Emanuel was doing, wearing sunglasses, sitting up straight at a back table in a place called Jury’s on a clear blue-sky day in October.
…
ContinueAdded by Chicago Guy on January 27, 2013 at 7:57pm — 9 Comments
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