Subject: Chicago

• Pitchfork Festival Day 1-The Airing of Grievances

  A Pitchfork seems like the appropriate emblem. After all, it's been a hellish last two days, culminating with this moment right now, my friends already having set off for the festival at the absurdly early crack of noon, abandoning me to pump Fela on my iPod in a Chicago Barnes and Noble, spitting venom on a stifling, rainy summer afternoon. There isn't much time either. The great minds at Barnes & Noble have apparently yet to discover the wonders of the power outlet and my lemon of a Dell

  July 19, 2008

• Melting in the Rain

  July 5, 2001

• When Moore Is Not Enough

  April 3, 2003

• Liberal Radio Goes Dark

  April 15, 2004

• Foot Village Releases New Friendship Nation on State of the Art "Cassette" Technology

  October 27, 2008

• Fossil Collection: The Democratic Party Steals Back Center Stage At The Century Plaza

  By Tibby Rothman My friends, if you have relatives that, even after Barack Obama’s election, are still cynical about party politics, go to them now and apologize. I was at the California Democratic Party’s election night celebration at the Century Plaza Hotel and left wanting to puke. Though Californians placed 1.1 million telephone calls to voters as part of Obama’s get-out-the-vote drive during the final weekend of the 2008 presidential campaign, and experts have cited the candidate’

  November 11, 2008

• Q&A With The Realist's Paul Krassner at Chicago 10 Screening

  "Communicate without compromise," says the man who coined "yippie"

  February 28, 2008

• The Town's the Thing: Theater Snobbery, From New York to L.A.

  April 10, 2008

• LITTLE RASCALS GONE BAD

  June 4, 2009

• How L.A. City Council Got Those Huge $178,789 Salaries

  February 26, 2009

• THE GREAT WHITE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY

  January 22, 2009

• The Life

  December 18, 2008

• Record Reviews: Koushik's Out My Window, Black Ghosts' self-titled debut

  Also, Final Solution's Brotherman soundtrack, Look Daggers' Suffer in Style

  September 18, 2008

• The Many Moods of Rock the Bells

  Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers

  August 7, 2008

• Rush Street: A Man's World

  A guy-food safe haven where even the salads are topped with carnitas

  August 7, 2008

• American Dead

  July 31, 2008

• Film Reviews: Semi-Pro, Summer Palace, A Walk to Beautiful

  And other Feb. 29 releases

  February 28, 2008

• Theater Murder Mystery

  After portraying Bobby Seale, actor Darius Ever Truly dies in a baffling street attack

  November 8, 2007

• Cereal Thrillers

  JuJu Cereal Bar

  November 1, 2007

• The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Boomer Town

  Taking L.A. back to the Summer of Love

  October 25, 2007

• Get Stuffed

  Blow into Riverside County for Windy City�style pies

  August 9, 2007

• Remember the Immigrant-Rights Movement?

  The case of Elvira Arellano inspires L.A. organizers

  August 24, 2006

• The 13th Festival of Preservation

  August 10, 2006

• Flight Path

  December 15, 2005

• �Ask a Mexican! Does L.A.

  December 8, 2005

• Snakebites

  November 24, 2005

• A Beige Green Room

  Michael Matthews� giddy new Celebration

  November 24, 2005

• Rock Machine

  November 17, 2005

• Snakebites

  July 28, 2005

• Helter Shelter

  Architectural intervention: Head for the hills or take it to the streets

  May 12, 2005

• Ask Mr. Gold

  June 10, 2004

• The Story in the Soil

  March 11, 2004

• The Sound of the City

  November 6, 2003

• Killer Chorines

  December 26, 2002

• Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

  August 8, 2002

• Made in America

  August 1, 2002

• Waiting for the Cable Guy

  December 20, 2001

• Now, I Tell You What

  August 10, 2000

• No Public Displays

  July 20, 2000

• The Guns of Autumn

  September 2, 1999

• Chicago-Style Riordan

  February 25, 1999

• Minstrels at the Crossroads

  February 4, 1999

• Razzle Shmazzle

  May 28, 1998

• Pet Airways: The World's First Airline for Cats, Dogs, or Whatever Domestic Animal You Call Your Best Friend

  The time has come: when pigs--or cats or dogs--fly. Do you love your pet more than is healthy? Pet Airways could be for you. It is a pet-only flight service. Pet Airways flies to New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. The plane is a 19-passenger Beech 1900 turbo-prop. All the human furnishings have been removed (like seats and overhead bins). Instead, there are private pet carriers. You don't actually ride with your pet. The pet flies alone. You pick it (sorry, "him" or

  May 19, 2009

• Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

  The Daily Swarm collects an argument currently consuming the web regarding the relative merits of L.A.'s reigning superstar DJ, Steve Aoki. A few days back Pitchfork (predictably) slammed Aoki's new mix, Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles. Reviewer David Raposa gave it a 2.5, writing: "After 50 minutes of this tired nonsense, with the highlights (like the bloops and bleeps of Yelle’s thankfully untouched “Je Veux Te Voir”, or the bits of Datarock’s strummy “Fa-Fa-Fa” that aren�

  February 21, 2008

• Naked Raygun, Knitting Factory, 12/7

  Naked Raygun Knitting Factory, Dec. 7 "Anyone ever tell you you look like Steve Albini?" "We were just talking about Albini! Did you know that he re-recorded Cheap Trick's album In Color back in '99 or something - when he was working with them on a new album?" "No! That's my favorite Cheap Trick album!" "Do you have the shirt with the black and white flag of Chicago on the front?" "No man. That was this year's Riot Fest shirt. You had to be there to get that." These are some of the very M

  December 10, 2007

• Laid-back, Uneducated, Macho-Obsessed

  May 28, 2009

• LA Punk Rocker, Screenwriter, Alleged Gang Leader Elgin Nathan James Arrested in Silver Lake

  A clearer picture is emerging of Elgin Nathan James, who was arrested yesterday in Silver Lake on charges of extorting a "popular recording artist from the Chicago area." James, who founded an organization called FSU, which the authorities say is little more than a street gang, ran with a pretty impressive group of Angelenos. More on that in a sec. From Sundance to Indictment: Elgin James at the Sundance Labs earlier this year. According to Reuters: Elgin Nathan James, a self-proclaimed foun

  July 15, 2009

• In the Studio with Smashing Pumpkins, a Billy Corgan Puppet, Dr. Psychedelic and Studiodog

  Recently we started getting Twitter direct messages from someone named @studiodog, and at first we couldn't figure out if the person was an oddball Smashing Pumpkins fan sending news updates on Billy Corgan's progress in the studio or an insider. But as we parsed them further, it started to appear that @studiodog was actually in the studio, and sending us tidbits of information. So we started sleuthing, and uncovered a treasure trove of oddities from the recording of the new Pumpkins album in

  October 7, 2009

• Hypnotic Brass Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble Shake the Explex

  Hypnotic Brass Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble Shake the Explex

  October 29, 2009