Wednesday, June 8

Experimental Composer and the X-box
Why isn't the interactive, three-dimensional world of the game console more attractive to today's laptop composers, soundscape artists, and sound installation designers?

Comedy Writer/Director Looks Back on Success

Museum, diner or both?
These Golden spots across Chicago provide more than slop, they give us a window into history.

Top 10 Musical Buzz Bands
This is a sweet article - links, sounds and dripping with info! Not a fresh list, a little more mainstream - but good words.

Do you find yourself walking into Filter and drooling over that punked-out barista? Or stopping to get a nightly cocktail at Crew to mentally undress that hottie bartender with the body?
Inside the steamy world of customer service lust.

More issues for artistic space in Wicker Park
One of the cities dopest alt-cultural spaces has lost its lease. The hood is losing any hip-ness it had left. Wicker Park is done, call it Wrigleyville II and get out of there.

Downtown Hotel News
At 887 feet, the skyscraper is expected to be the city's seventh-tallest tower when it is completed in 2008. The Cities scraper boom continues.