Feature XLR8R October 2005 Link Click on the link to check out XLR8R’s awesome Chicago City issue, which includes a guide to the city I wrote. Note: Portillo’s is not included.
Interview Playboy.com October 2005 Delivering a call to arms for the fans of University of Massachusetts athletics, svelte Sam the Minuteman is ready to defend life, liberty and the pursuit of an NCAA championship at any cost. Whether it’s rooting for the football team at the Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium or raising hell indoors at […]
Interview XLR8R October 2005 Link Located on walls around São Paulo, the fantastically bright paintings of Os Gemeos (“The Twins”) grab the attention of passersby like a float from Carnival. Full of fluid lines, eye-popping colors (often yellow and red), and surreal characters, their work would be at home in a children’s book, but the […]
Feature Chicago Tribune June 10, 2005 When Spoon singer-songwriter Britt Daniels began writing songs for the band’s latest album “Gimme Fiction,” he was already focused on the end. As in The End. “I was thinking about the apocalypse,” he said. “There are a lot of people in Texas and in the Bible Belt who believe […]
Feature URB May 2005 Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore remembers endlessly listening to a homemade tape filled with his favorite hardcore songs. He recalls touring the country during the ’80s in a van with a monstrous, sticker-stained boom box blasting tunes. And he still treasures the mix tapes bestowed by older and wiser friends and […]
Feature Time Out Chicago April 2005 “Sometimes, I feel like the invisible man of Detroit techno,” says Anthony “Shake” Shakir. Being in the right place and being connected can make all the difference. But sometimes, even those big breaks aren’t enough. Working during the ’80s in the studio of dance music icon Derrick May (who […]
Feature Chicago Tribune November 2004 Anthony Kiedis, singer for the multiplatinum funk-rock Red Hot Chili Peppers, released his epic autobiography, “Scar Tissue,” this week. It’s full of the type of wild stories — watching his father deal coke to a football player as a kid, trading in a guitar signed by all of the Rolling […]