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...moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy’s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful Thinking” to jangly Clear Channel cutdown “The Late Greats.” Unofficial concert poet laureate of Chicago Thax Douglas will be sorely missed, but the inevitable “Heavy Metal Drummer” sing-along will not. Opening are hot hot hot indie experimental rockers Fiery Furnaces. Tickets $25-30, available at www.wangcenter.org. 7:30 p.m. Wang Center for the Performing Arts, 270 Tremont St., Boston...
More than four years ago, in February of 2000, my local CBS affiliate in Chicago tried something different. With the mantra “no water-skiing squirrels” and the expertise of veteran Chi-town anchor Carol Marin, “The 10 p.m. News with Carol Marin” attempted to take local news back in time. Gone were the menacing, sensational teasers as the station went to commercial—“What your family should know about strangulation this Christmas season”—replaced by Marin standing and reciting the day?...
...wisely, are all about stuff that he likes—food, girls, gambling, and himself. He’s largely naked by the end of every performance, and his native Milwaukee audiences loyally go crazy for him every time. And massively, he came to visit me this summer in Chicago for a monumental playdate to the annual B96 Pepsi Summerbash at the Maywood Park Race Track...
...every team social event. There was a former Iowan schoolboy football star whose penchant for career ending hits was equaled only by his pathological desire for sex (which he sought from the lovely ladies of certain Glasgow neighborhoods), an NFL Europe veteran who’d played for the Chicago bears, a British sprinting champion and the best quarterback in Britain, whose 22-stone (308 pound) frame could not mask his awesome physical talent and acumen for the game...
Meselson left high school a year-and-a-half early, and never earned a diploma because he hadn’t taken the three requisite physical education classes. He entered the University of Chicago, and graduated with a degree in philosophy because at the time the school didn’t offer bachelor’s degrees in chemistry. But he didn’t give up on biology...