Amazing! How did he do that?!? Years ago when my oldest son was in Kindergarten (he’s 23 now), he and I shared an afternoon at Chicago’s World-Famous John G. Shedd Aquarium. I had bought him a little stuffed dolphin at the gift shop and he was playing with it, making it “swim” along the underwater …
I know posts to EPB tend to be quite short and oftentimes are simply a link to something someone has deemed worthy in his/her view. That is not a criticism; I too embrace brevity. This weekend people traveled from afar, eg. Japan, CA, WA, CO, and NH, to pay Ken Olson last respects at a …
Alfonso Ponticelli has been playing a weekly gig of Django Reinhardt music at the venerable Green Mill in Chicago for well over a year now. (Al Capone reportedly hung out at the Green Mill.) I recommend everyone go hear Ponticelli. Here he is in action at the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest in Madison, Wisconsin. Located …
Here’s some new Chicago hip hop, the first visual from The 2 of Diamonds’ forthcoming project, “Jackin for Fans” set to release sometime in July. The video was directed by Nic Collins and Ryan Farmer: Better Dayz-The 2 of Diamonds ft. Chris Mathien from nic collins on Vimeo. .
I’m lying on a recliner, its’ faint aroma of sweat and mold having long past become an unnoticed fragment of my day. The white sheet draped over it helps to mask the odor, but it still creeps through, like smoke in a clean room. The sleeve of my sweatshirt is covering my eyes and I …
In 1978 or 1979, roughly concurrent with Cheap Trick’s release of Heaven Tonight and Dream Police, I argued vehemently that Cheap Trick was a combo whose appeal would go on. I predicted their careers would have the longevity of a band like the Rolling Stones, who even by then had been recording and touring for …
Exotic species invading native habitats is a natural phenomena gone wild through the active transport provided by Homo Sapiens. What starts out as novel idea can quickly turn into a catstrophe when there is no constraint. Well now, nobody explained that to these boys from Peoria! Demonstrating Yankee ingenuity and comic book creativity, they are …
And here’s a video which shows a great street level view of the North Side of Chicago including a pizza joint, a Catholic (or maybe Orthodox) Church, a gospel choir, an alley with brick walls rising on both sides and an apartment full of empties.
Here’s the latest from Kidd Russell: Hey Guys – Here is my new weekly recap show via youtube called “Everyday’s Pulaski Day.” It will document what its like to chill with me and my homeless DJ John Blaze. Episode 1 has us hanging out on the Chicago music video set of Interscope’s newest artist, Kay. …
Charlie Sheen’s “Violent Torpedo of Truth” live stage show had more success in Chicago Sunday night than it had the previous night in Detroit, working better comedy into the show such as this exchange– Why does he pay for sex? He “ran out of things to buy.” Charlie Sheen takes on Chicago Chicago (CNN) — …
Dum Dum Girls cover Big Star
It’s all here… Also in EastPortlandBlog.com: The World Series Championship Trophy Comes to Redding, CA – by Chuck Strom October Baseball in San Francisco, by Chuck Strom
This will bring back some memories. Any guy who grew up playing football will feel this one. Reminds me of growing up back in the 60625 when it was still part of the 312 and running in the mud with a football till it got too dark to see at every park and empty lot …
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The NFC North is a division of the National Football League’s National Football Conference. It currently has three members: the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Minnesota Vikings, with the Detroit Lions playing on the NFC North Junior Varsity. The Bears, Packers and Lions have been in the same division or conference since the NFL …
Flying through the night on a fourteen-hour Japan Airlines Chicago-to-Narita flight had me thinking back on my long, soon-ending career as a Covenant Police officer. Twenty years and now I’ll get my military pension. Time had flown by. I served ten years in Washington protecting Covenant officers while they were looking for government funding …
. So, there I was at SOFA-Chicago (International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair) last month exhibiting my work and not selling much when an employee of Ferrin Gallery, Lauren Levato, purchased a small beaded flower of mine. It is possible that I started gushing about the work of my favorite artist Sergei Isupov, who …
. Driving to the train station the other morning, I had no idea that it was the first day of Hannakuh (Did I spell that right?). I was enlightened by Lin Brehmer, the ever resourceful morning man on Chicago’s finest radio station WXRT, who played this song. At long last an alternative to Adam Sandler’s …
. One of my favorite videos… not because of it’s excellent image quality (quite obviously NOT) but because it combines my favorite singer, Robert Plant, with one of my favorite bands backing him up, Pearl Jam, in my favorite city and hometown, Chicago, in an iconic club, House of Blues, for a very worthy cause, …