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Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Apr 7, 2020
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The untold story of Joe Mantegna’s teenage garage band

Maybe you know that the Apocryphals existed, but we’re willing to bet you haven’t heard all this.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Apocryphals, Joe Mantegna, Johnnie Ray, Morton East High School, Cicero, Art Stout, Ricky Johnson, Sordelli, Weasels, Jack Leckel, Beau Brummels, Tom Massari, Chris Montagna, Bernardine, Gloomy Sunday, Hungarian Suicide Song, Cheetah, Holiday Ballroom, My Sister's Place, Missing Links, Chicago Transit Authority, Ides of March, Jim Peterik, Joe Sugarman, BluBlocker, Mad Record Company, Tommy Jones, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Sam the Sham & the Pharaoh, Neil Diamond, Goodman School of Drama, DePaul, Hair, Images, Rajah, All Alone Am I, Baby, I Know I’m Losing You, Godspell, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 7, 2017
Candide, Gidion's Knot, and ten more stage shows to see now

A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Leonard Bernstein, Candide, Leibniz, Voltaire, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Music Theater Works, Light Opera Works, Rudy Hogenmiller, John Caird, Gary Alexander, Ben Barker, Cecilia Iole, Roger L. Bingaman, Cunegonde, Clued In: An Improvised Murder Mystery, Second City, Judy's Beat Lounge, Gidion's Knot, Johnna Adams, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Michelle Annette, Julie Partyka, Katherine Siegel, Hair, Lauren Rawitz, Noah Spiegel-Blum, Her Majesty's Will, Robert Kauzlaric, David Blixt, Lifeline Theatre, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Peter Greenberg, Improvised Jane Austen, Ana Silva, Kate Parker, Stephanie Jones, King Liz, Windy City Playhouse, Chuck Smith, Lanice Shelley, Eric Gerard, Fernanda Coppel, Not Quite: Asian American by Law, Asian Woman by Desire, Ada Cheng, Ragtime musical, Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty, E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime, Scott Weinstein, Denzel Tsopnang, Richard III, Fury Theatre, Nathan Agin, David Gonzalez, Mark Dodge, Indian Boundary Park, Save Ferris: The Unofficial Sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Under the Gun Theater, Christian Missonak, Andrew Bentley, Kayla Cole, Shrimp Boys Present: Seinfeld, Shrimp Boys, Seinfeld

Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2016
Curl up and dye

Street View featuring wardrobe stylist Elizabeth Margulis and her big blue hair.
- By Isa Giallorenzo
- Tags: Arts, Style, womenswear, fashion, stylists, hair, Chicago street style

Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2015
Mia Wallace makes an appearance in Bucktown

Street View features a stylish Holland, Michigan, version of Mia Wallace.
- By Isa Giallorenzo
- Tags: Style, Arts, womenswear, winter, fashion, hair, Chicago street style

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 23, 2014
Chicago theater 2014: In a year of hard losses, the shows went on—many of them spendidly

Writers Theatre's Hedda Gabler and The Dance of Death and a rawer, truer Hair were among our senior critic's favorites.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Trinity P. Murdock, Molly Glynn, Tom Jones, Sheldon Patinkin, Playwrights Theatre Club, Paul Sills, Second City, Hedda Gabler, Writers Theatre, The Dance of Death, Hair, American Theater Company, Monstrous Regiment, Lifeline Theatre, The Qualms, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Wild Party, Bailiwick Chicago, Iphigenia in Aulis, Court Theatre, Year in Review 2014

Best of Chicago, Goods & Services Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Salon to Bring Together Hair and Art

Strange Beauty Show
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Goods & Services, Best of Chicago 2014, Strange Beauty Show, Ghanaian barbershops, hair, haircuts, hair styling, Critics' Picks

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 14, 2014
Recommended
Hair gets back to its roots

American Theater Company revitalizes the 1967 "American tribal love-rock musical."
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Hair, American Theater Company, Mad Men, AMC, Motown Records, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jack Lemmon, Chris Lemmon, PJ Paparelli, Joseph Papp, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Broadway, Michael Ginsberg, Zach Kenney, Ella Raymont, Abbie Hoffman, Aaron Holland, Keith Pitts, Mary Hollis Inboden, Christian Libonati, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 10, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Bobby Conn re-creates his Hideout residency on Bandcamp

Plus: Eitarnora's austere party favors, Jody Duff's decadent feast, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Bobby Conn, the Hideout, Michael Zerang, KK Rampage, Mucca Pazza, Joan of Arc, Cave, Tuxedomoon, Roxy Music, Os Mutantes, Hair, Eitarnora, Tall Grasses and Black Ash, Planning for Burial, Jody Duff, Unbelievable, Rick Ross, Duff, What the Duff, the Gift, Rockie Fresh, Maybach Music Group

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Ty Segall & White Fence, "I Am Not a Game"

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is from the highly anticipated Ty Segall/White Fence collaboration, Hair.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Ty Segall, White Fence, Tim Presley, Hair, Drag City, I Am Not a Game, video, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 23, 2010
Hair Pie

A fine point of etiquette explained
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Mince pie, hair, etiquette

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2009
Hair, hair

Do John Darnielle and Blago share the same "football"?
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Rod Blagojevich, John Darnielle, Hair, Mountain Goats

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2009
The secret of Blago's hair revealed

Blago's 'Bama Bangs.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Rod Blagojevich, Hair, Bama Bangs

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2009
Remembering Tom O'Horgan

Chicago director Sheldon Patinkin recalls Tom O'Horgan, best known for directing Hair on Broadway.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Sheldon Patinkin, Hair, Tom O'Horgan, Playwrights Theatre Club, Jesus Christ Superstar

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2008
Written in the stars

The Age of Aquarius seems to be proceeding according to plan.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Hair, Age of Aquarius

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The untold story of Joe Mantegna’s teenage garage band

Maybe you know that the Apocryphals existed, but we’re willing to bet you haven’t heard all this.

Candide, Gidion's Knot, and ten more stage shows to see now

A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week's best bets.

Curl up and dye

Street View featuring wardrobe stylist Elizabeth Margulis and her big blue hair.

Mia Wallace makes an appearance in Bucktown

Street View features a stylish Holland, Michigan, version of Mia Wallace.

Chicago theater 2014: In a year of hard losses, the shows went on—many of them spendidly

Writers Theatre's Hedda Gabler and The Dance of Death and a rawer, truer Hair were among our senior critic's favorites.

Critics' Picks
Best Salon to Bring Together Hair and Art

Strange Beauty Show

Recommended
Hair gets back to its roots

American Theater Company revitalizes the 1967 "American tribal love-rock musical."

Gossip Wolf: Bobby Conn re-creates his Hideout residency on Bandcamp

Plus: Eitarnora's austere party favors, Jody Duff's decadent feast, and more

Video
12 O'Clock Track: Ty Segall & White Fence, "I Am Not a Game"

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is from the highly anticipated Ty Segall/White Fence collaboration, Hair.

Hair Pie

A fine point of etiquette explained

Hair, hair

Do John Darnielle and Blago share the same "football"?

The secret of Blago's hair revealed

Blago's 'Bama Bangs.

Remembering Tom O'Horgan

Chicago director Sheldon Patinkin recalls Tom O'Horgan, best known for directing Hair on Broadway.

Written in the stars

The Age of Aquarius seems to be proceeding according to plan.

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Maybe you know that the Apocryphals existed, but we’re willing to bet you haven’t heard all this.

A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week's best bets.

Street View featuring wardrobe stylist Elizabeth Margulis and her big blue hair.

Street View features a stylish Holland, Michigan, version of Mia Wallace.

Writers Theatre's Hedda Gabler and The Dance of Death and a rawer, truer Hair were among our senior critic's favorites.

Strange Beauty Show

American Theater Company revitalizes the 1967 "American tribal love-rock musical."

Plus: Eitarnora's austere party favors, Jody Duff's decadent feast, and more

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is from the highly anticipated Ty Segall/White Fence collaboration, Hair.

A fine point of etiquette explained

Do John Darnielle and Blago share the same "football"?

Blago's 'Bama Bangs.

Chicago director Sheldon Patinkin recalls Tom O'Horgan, best known for directing Hair on Broadway.

The Age of Aquarius seems to be proceeding according to plan.

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