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Chicago street misses Punk Planet, collapses

Sinker — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:49:22 -0500

CHICAGO--The street just outside the old Punk Planet office collapsed yesterday, after nearly six months of missing the magazine. 80 feet of street and sidewalk gave way, and the street's tears flooded nearby businesses and parked cars. A spokesperson from the former magazine apologized for the inconvenience caused by the brokenhearted roadway.

three lives = eight years = WTF

Sinker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:23:12 -0500

So the verdict is in for the woman who killed Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist, John Glick, and Doug Meis by smashing into their car at 87 mph while they were stopped at light. She was, to remind you of that awful day, attempting to commit suicide after an argument with her mother.

She got eight years.

She'll be out in four if she behaves herself inside. She'll be 29 then, younger than the three men she killed were when they died.

Eight years.

It hardly seems fair, but nothing ever does when lives are taken away. Mostly it feels numbing, trying to find logic in a math that makes lives worth so little. You fumble for an answer and, like attempting to open a lock with heavy mittens on, all the effort is for naught.

Trial begins for Silkworm drummer's killer

Sinker — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:03:35 -0400

A dark day in Chicago's music scene is being replayed over and over now that the trial has finally begun for the woman who killed Michael Dahlquist, John Glick, and Douglas Meis back in 2005. It was a horrible death and a terrible day for anyone that knew those that died. I knew Michael only through others but I remember the fog I wandered through for days after he was killed. Out here in California, so removed from the tight-knit Chicago scene I called home for almost two decades, today feels especially lonely.

If you like zines, being outside, and you live in Chicago...

oliviarrow — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:42:57 -0400

Hi all,
Humboldt Park zines The HSSreader (made by me) and A New Tomorrow (made by Mike) would like to invite you to a picnic in the park. Local zine distributor Loop Distro will be there too! Stop by for party favors of zines and stay for food and drink! Frisby, kickball, and other park-ish things to do!

07/29/2007
1pm til 4pm(or whenever!)
Humboldt Park 'Zine Picnic:
look for the bright balloons in the Southeast side of Humboldt Park near Division & California
(Chicago, Illinois 60647)
This event is FREE-ninety-FREE!

http://www.myspace.com/hssforever
http://www.myspace.com/hfipublishing

Cops to Printer's Ball: Print is Dead

Sinker — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:35:34 -0400

So the always highly successful Printers' Ball, held on Friday night, was raided by the cops and shut the fuck down. Why? No one's quite sure--the current explanation is liquor violations! Read all about it here and here.

Chiblogo

anne elizabeth moore — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:31:34 -0400

I've started a photoblog, and if you go to it, you will sometimes be able to see what *I see* through the miracle of *technology*, and sometimes you will be able to see something I saw once in Chicago and forgot to post earlier, and then other times you will be able to see a new addition in the series in which I document how people are defacing the boxes that give away the horrible Chicago Redeye.

Right now, however, you'll be able to see pictures from last night's staff-only fried chicken party. Which, like all good Punk Planet parties, ended in a broken-glass fight, police intervention, and a whole lotta cheap beer.

Hey Zinemakers!!

Sinker — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:53:55 -0400

Hey Zine Folks!

The wonderful theater folks behind the Neo-Futurists (those are the folks behind Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind) are setting up a small zine library in their theater lobby so showgoers (and there are a lot of them at their shows) can read YOUR WORDS while they wait for plays to start. Pretty awesome, huh?

Read all the were/how/whos right here!

public participation in public art selection?: kinda cumbersome, says Chicago

anne elizabeth moore — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:20:11 -0400

On June 13, an issue will come up for a vote at the Chicago City Council meeting that will affect public participation in meetings about public art.

In mid-May at the request of the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs (Lois Weisberg), Mayor Daley proposed an ordinance to revamp the Public Art Program. Unfortunately, this proposed ordinance is bad government: bad for Chicagoans and particularly bad for the Chicago art community. In essence it wipes out public participation in the selection of public art. This is outrageous, and will not be tolerated by the local art community.

Mayor Daley and the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) have proposed an ordinance to modify the Public Art Program. Their stated reason makes no sense: that the open meetings were cumbersome and unnecessary. That the previous ordinance existed for 25 years and that the City has an exemplary art collection in part because of these open meetings they deemed irrelevant.

bikes!

kira — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:30:33 -0400

One of the many things I love about Chicago is the bike culture and two biking events are happening this weekend.

Chicago Critical Mass against the G8 & Climate Change!
Friday, June 8
Daley Plaza
4pm
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070605102127983

World Naked Bike Ride: Chicago
Saturday, June 9
Union Park
6pm: Gathering and Body Painting
9pm: Departure
http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/chicago/

Women & Children First on Bookseller's (death) Row

Sinker — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:47:14 -0400

It's all doom and gloom these days isn't it? Today's Chicago Tribune reports that Women and Children First, Chicago's stalwart feminist indie bookshop is teetering closer and closer to shutting its doors.

Last week, the two women, who founded the store in 1979 in Lincoln Park, thought long and hard before deciding to renew their lease for the three storefronts at 5233 N. Clark St. But, buffeted by competition from the Internet and huge chain stores, they only did so after their landlord said he wouldn't raise their rent -- and they only committed to a single year.