Two Ideas: Please Steal

Here are two very cool things.1: The Chicago Mixtape (started in Chicago, early 2011)2: The Mississippi Records Tape Series (started in Portland, early 2008)Chicago MixtapeThe basic premise of their site is this: the music scene in Chicago has literally dozens of bands that roll through town each week,...

Après-Ski Party at Hugh

Kick those ski boots off and sip some champagne by the fireside at Hugh for the Holidays' après-ski party, this Tuesday 12/21. If you haven't made it out to Park Avenue's 3-week pop-up shop this holiday season, I urge you to check it out. This year's theme is Hugh Hefner on a swank Scandinavian ski...

Dave Bing Volume 2

This year's Holiday party is at Leopold's Books. Tonight!!! at 7 pm. Come as David Bowie or Bing Crosby, but don't come as Bill Cosby because that one doesn't really work. I tried last year. Damn, it's hard to find a box of puddin' pops in a pin...

Tears Baby

Just came across the November edition of Daptone Jukepox featuring a mix by Brad Hales, owner of People's Records on Woodward & Peterboro. Highly recommend it. Give Maggie Thrett's "Soupy" a try. Hard to imagine her day job was acting, not singing.Here's the link:http://daptonerecords.podbean.c...

Spitzer @ the Burton

Last Thursday, the night after the D Show, the Creative Arts Scholarship Series (CASS) debuted at the Burton Theatre with a special screening of Client 9: The Rise & Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Academy Award-Winning Director Alex Gibney came out to show the crowd his latest work. Those of us who...