Rick Kogan: After a 5-year absence, Playboy magazine is back in print
The March 1990 issue of Playboy magazine featured an interview with the man who now sits and sleeps and signs executive ...
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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture
Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of ...
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To these Chicago Symphony players, here’s the sound of music in an era of crisis
How does music speak to times of crisis? University of Chicago professor Steve Rings posed the question to clarinetist Stephen Williamson, violinist Danny Jin, and cellist John Sharp of the ...
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GoFundMe launched to help Chicago house pioneer DJ Lee Collins fight cancer
they said. Born in Chicago, Collins first caught the attention of the city's emerging house music scene with his college radio show, Disco Madness, which he started in 1983. The show led to a club ...
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‘Move Ya Body: The Birth of House’ Exists Because Hillary Clinton Loves House Music
But he also came to the project with his own lifelong passion for house music. “Hillary is from Chicago. So when I met Hillary, I said ‘No one is gonna believe that you’re a house music lover.
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‘Move Ya Body’ Review: Doc Doesn’t Definitively Answer Its ‘Birth of House Music’ Claim
New York City has hip-hop, and Chicago has house music. Although each genre became a global phenomenon, the latter still generates far less mainstream coverage. To this day, a cloud of mystery ...
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Car slams into house in northwest Chicago suburbs
LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. (CBS) -- A car plowed into a house in northwest suburban Lake in the Hills Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened in the 400 block of Ridge Court, near Frank Road and ...
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The Chicago-area house from ‘Home Alone' just sold for $5.5 million—take a look inside: It's ‘one of the most Googled houses in the world'
For the first time in over a decade, the iconic "Home Alone" house has new owners. Located in the Chicago suburbs, 671 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois 60093, first went on the market in May ...
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Man critically injured in Pilsen house fire: Chicago Fire Department
CHICAGO (WLS) -- One person was hospitalized after a fire broke out at a house on the city's Southwest Side on Tuesday afternoon, the Chicago Fire Department said. The fire started at home near ...
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Chicago immigrant residents are in Trump's sights. The mayor says he'll defend them
That's what Chicago is known for," Johnson said. "We're going to continue to do that regardless of who's in the White House." Johnson spoke to Morning Edition to discuss how his city is preparing ...
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'We had hit albums but can't afford a house': How much money pop stars really make
Braithwaite, who is 48, says he and his bandmates are “comfortably living off music”. Like Pritchard, he benefited from comparably low living costs and bought a house around the time of Mogwai ...
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Fat Joe Uses Australian Music Festival To Troll MLK Day Chicago Show Boo’ing Rumors
On January 21, footage of The World Changed On Me rapper being boo’d while on stage at a show believed to be in Chicago on Martin ... himself at the recent Juicy music festival in Australia ...