Chicago Lifestyle Podcast & Video Blog
Video related to books, authors, art, music, theater and performance in Chicago.
Review Summary: An inspired performance art meets multi-media entertainment extravaganza probably unlike anything you might have seen before. The combination of live action, shadow puppetry, and video centers around a chance encounter between a meals-on-wheels driver and a QVC home shopping obsessed elderly woman that …
Pete Wentz shows and tells you what to do if you have 48 hours in Chicago.
In case you thought the mandolin was just for slicing vegetables or playing bluegrass. Here is a cool piece from the Chicago Symphony of Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital playing Bach Gigue from second partita in D minor.
The energetic cast of twelve talented actor/musicians, tell the story of four ill-fated so-called “anarchists” and their wives through approximately 19 bluegrass/folk songs with limited dialogue. “Haymarket” original run through July 22, 2018 at The Den Theatre’s Heath Main Stage, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. …
Every year since 1993 artists of all kinds gather to decorate the wall at Loyola Park near Jarvis Beach in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. Rogers Park which includes the campus of Loyola University is perhaps one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the …
This is a series of several roughly 30-minute video episodes about books and authors mostly from the Chicago area. Many of these episodes have aired on Chicago cable channel 25. The concept of the show is to expose readers to new books and authors that …
Featured Profile with pianist and pop composer Chicago native, Steven Solomon a/k/a “Skatterplot”.
Chicago composer Janice Misurell-Mitchell translates the text and imagery of William Blake into a sonic experience in “Mad Song” presented at Northwestern University. Performed by twelve students of the Bienen School of Music, conducted by A.J. Keller, DMA candidate in Choral Conducting. The performance was …
This past year we produced a three part video series featuring two Chicago area artists who collaborated to mount an exhibition commemorating the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial. The exhibit took place at the Chicago Cultural Center at Randolph and Michigan downtown. Sandra Holubow is known largely …
We had to share this video segment by S.E.E. Chicago about Prometheus Bound at the CityLit Theatre in Edgewater because it was such an interesting theatrical production. You can also read Reno Lovison review at ChicagoTheaterandArts.com.
A cool vintage video we found thanks to “Obsolete Video.” Before cable TV there was something called UHF (Ulta High Frequency) TV that extended the over-the-air bandwidth introducing a number of additional channels and providing for more diversity that included more local programs. This pilot …
This music video produced by Chicago’s Boom Shot Records was shot in Rogers Park and on the Northshore by RenoWeb.net. “Dream Come True” featuring Rohan “Indian” Murray with D.J. Donnie Silk is distributed by VPAL Music. The song by Murray has a classic reggae vibe …
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