Our (fairly) regular roundup of Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers.
- Chicago’s sweetheart ready for the world
Though she first made her impact on the music scene in Georgia in the ’90s, first as the golden voice of the star-crossed Jody Grind and then as a member of the Rock*A*Teens, Kelly Hogan has been Chicago’s sweetheart for more than a decade now, perhaps the brightest star in this city’s roots-r
- Gossip Wolf: The Promise makes good
A great free album from hip-hop duo the Promise, a new variety show at Saki, and a birthday party for half of Football
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Local hip-hop producer Mulatto Patriot has released The New Deal—an LP whose progress this Wolf reported on almost two years ago—under the name the Promise (his duo with MC Squair Blaq). Last week they finally threw the album up on Bandcamp, and if it weren’t free, we’d be mad we had to wait so long for something so damn good.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Good mourning, class
In Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar, an Algerian refugee copes with grieving students
by J.R. Jones
In this French Canadian feature by Philippe Falardeau, a standard liberal tale about an inspirational teacher gradually deepens into a quiet study of how grief works its way through a community. The death of a young grade school instructor shocks her students and colleagues alike, though, as one child astutely observes, the institutional response speaks more to the adults’ trauma than the children’s.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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