Delmark celebrates big 5—0

The day before Buddy Guy’s Legends was shut down by city officials, Delmark Records held a party celebrating the label’s 50th anniversary. Inside the building’s cracked and dilapidated walls, local blues greats paid testament to the tradition Delmark helped create.
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Boys have drum fever

The sound comes down the street—thump, thump, thumping in the brisk spring air—the contagious, rhythmic beats continuing. These are the drummers who have become a staple along the Magnificent Mile and at local sporting events. They go by no specific name, but these young entrepreneurs have made a place for themselves in the street performance business.
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Anxiety-riddled Adult steals the show

If Adult’s sold-out concert May 16 at the Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave., was any indication, ’80s nostalgia has run its course. Out is the kitschy snobbery, the legwarmers, the blind praising of Human League and Depeche Mode. In is the postmodern dystopia of early ’90s industrial music, the black boots, black jeans and guitar feedback.
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Jealousy, betrayal and ‘The King

“An honorable person suffers more deeply in the face of dishonor than do the mediocre.” That tenet reveals itself in literature more clearly (and more often) than in any other art form. And, there is great honor and deep suffering in Steven Millhauser’s most recent book, The King in the Tree (Knopf, 2003).
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‘Nobody’ makes Knight somebody

The literary world has had a love-hate relationship with the short story collection. Hard to sell and hard to categorize, a book of short stories might appeal to the A.D.D. crowd, but it isn’t easy to market. Michael Knight’s newest collection of stories, Goodnight, Nobody (Atlantic Monthly Press), makes things a bit easier.
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