Chicago Lifestyle Podcast & Video Blog
Note: Here is a link to our podcast theater review of the world premiere presentation of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter which was the last play we attended before the pandemic closed everything down in 2020. Now the play will soon be released as …
Julie Lovison director of The Lake Shore Music Studio in Chicago talks about teaching online piano lessons and coping with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
1930, People, cars, Glen Clark Globe Gasoline service station, and life, Chicago, Illinois Wonderful footage all centered around activity at a service station somewhere in Chicago. 2 min 09 secs, 16mm 2k digital scan B&W
1927 Mom and child, dad and extended family, out in front of the home, Christmas, Chicago, Illinois. Some charming family footage captured outside their home, a four story apartment on 6412 N Seeley Ave, Chicago. ID’d from film box address. 5 min 30 secs 16mm 2k digital scan Possible photographer R.O. Burns https://youtu.be/g4C_23pXfP8
1933 Mystery reel! Ski jumping and possible Chicago Worlds fair. The ski jumping location is unknown, possibly in Michigan. The rest of the film might be the 1933 Chicago Worlds fair. Maybe someone can confirm that. There is a scene with Pabst advertising and beer being served, oddly prohibition wasn’t repealed until the end of 1933. 8 min 19 sec, 16mm 2k digital transfer https://youtu.be/CjLNdXJTM9Y
1941 Chicago street scene. A short but interesting clip of traffic in downtown Chicago. Lots of details. Great color. 1 min 36 sec, 16mm 2k digital scan
Rare footage of the WBBM Curtis Aero Car location trailer. 1939, 40th Annual Western Open, Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois. Badly damaged film due to being run through a poorly maintained projector decades ago, shredding the perforations. Film salvaged as best as possible given current technology. Highlights of event include Byron Nelson, Tommy Armour, Charlie Pena, in a pre-television world, film reels were taken of major sporting events often by amateur photographers. Look for rare footage of WBBM Chicago’s Curtis Aero Car location trailer. 6 min 03 secs, 16mm 2k digital scan
Podcast review of 2019 documentary film SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING by Josh da Silva about Chicago northside neighborhood teens using Improv to enhance communication skills and explore racism as well as other topics that impact their lives. You can watch the film online at Tubi. …
Whatever happened to WGN radio personality Spike O’Dell? Connie Wilson interviews one of the station’s most popular broadcasters from his current retirement home in Nashville where he paints and otherwise is “doing whatever he wants to do.” Connie and Spike both born in E. Moline, …
Tony Aiken and Future is back with “Something About You,” another reggae music video this time rockin’ a mainstream crossover vibe distributed by Radial by The Orchard.
The recording kicks off with a guitar solo lick by Stann Champion on guitar before launching into the featured vocals of Leslie Ming with backup vocals by Aiken, Champion, and Robert Burchell.
D.J. Stylee Mon who also appeared in “Not Your Fool” breaks in with a rap interlude which has become the signature of producer Aiken giving these somewhat old-school cuts by Boom Shot Records a fresher younger sound.
The music video production was shot primarily around Chicago’s Montrose Harbor by our associate company RenoWeb.net.
This ninety minute version of the icon fish tale Moby Dick produced by Chicago based Theatre in the Dark captures the essence of Herman Melville’s classic seafaring novel including vivid descriptions of the elusive and menacing great white whale itself. No need to keep your …
If you are a lover of classic film noir don’t miss Nightmare Alley a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, with Colleen Gray as Molly directed by Edmund Goulding. You can watch it right here and now. A talented circus con man reaches …
Dozens of local singers, dancers, and musicians join a star studded group of celebrities including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kegan-Michael Key, Jessie Mueller, Andre De Shields, Alan Ruck, George Wendt, Joe Mantegna, Rachel Barton Pine, E. Faye Butler, Ramsey Lewis, Twista, Rhymefest, Sandra Delgado, Jim Peterik, Lecy Goranson, Kurt Elling and Chef Rick Bayless to record the Blues Brothers classic “Sweet Home Chicago” in support of the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund providing relief to Chicago-area artists throughout Chicago and Illinois who are struggling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The full list of artists in the video includes (in alphabetical order): Edson Barbosa, Bril Barrett, Rachel Barton Pine, Rick Bayless, Jim Belushi, Melanie Brezill, Time Brickey, Tristan Bruns, E. Faye Butler, Dara Cameron, Matt Cashdollar, Thomas Cavender, David Chiriboga, Shantel Cribbs, André De Shields, Sandra Delgado, Star Dixon, Michael A. Downs, Kurt Elling, Annie Ermel, Aubriel Fields, Felicia P. Fields, Annie Jo Fischer, Joshua Funk, Cindy Gold, Lecy Goranson, Monique Haley, Brad Hall, Charlie Hall, Henry Hall, Anne Harris, Bernard Johnson, Mark Kelly, Heidi Kettenring, Keegan-Michael Key, Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert, Ramsey Lewis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nikki Lynette, Courtney Mack, Mallory Maedke, Ezra Mahler, Michael Mahler, Joe Mantegna, Megon McDonough, Dan McGuinness, Anthony Mosely, Jessie Mueller, Jesse Nolan, Jeff Perry, Jim Peterik, Jessica Redish, Rhymefest, Maisie Rose, Alan Ruck, Larkin Ruck, Julia Rust, Amaris Sanchez, Martin Saunders, Colten Settle, KJ Sheldon, Christine Sherill, Raymond Smith, Paul Oakley Stovall, John Toney, Cyrus Tong, Jessica Tong, Twista, Trey Vavra, Sam Wagster, Michael Weber, George Wendt, Jayden Wilson, Bobbi Wilsyn, Ellen Winters, Elise Wolf and Jeff Wolfe.
WTTW Chicago’s PBS station produced a series of roughly hour long videos under the banner “Remembering Chicago.” The first video covered the 1920s -30s and 40s. In 2004 the year the first of the series was produced many of the people featured like Studs Terkel, …
Theatre in the Dark celebrates the end of 2020 with their spin on Charles Dickens’ beloved classic tale of self-reflection and repentance. Through a nightmarish one night odyssey iconic miser Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge comes to see his negative effect on others, as well as his …
Stop the swamp . . . save a pond.
Residents defeat proposal to vote Lakeview precinct dry.
Dogs gone wild in Lakeview.
Help is badly needed for adored Streeterville couple.
Hopleaf heading into hibernation.
New Van Gogh exhibit coming to North Side.
Pandemic inspires luxury restaurants to offer takeout.
High School senior distributes warm blankets to homeless.
DoorDash gives half a million dollars in grants to area restaurants.
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