Nostalgia Week

My nostalgia problem with the Bulls—or is it?

by Ted Cox on April 21, 2012 at 2:19PM

I have a nostalgia problem with the current Bulls, and I don't think I'm alone in that. As much as I like the current roster, from the goofy Joakim Noah, who has made himself a much better pro than I ever expected, to Luol Deng, the one holdover from the promising previous bunch of Bulls who never fully panned out, to of course Derrick Rose, whom I saw first as a sophomore at Simeon and have been following ever since, they just don't compare to the Bulls of Michael Jordan.

Corey Crawford: Brutal plus brutal equals doubly brutal.

Blackhawks: nostalgia, perhaps yet to come

by Ted Cox on April 20, 2012 at 3:21PM

It's funny how the outcome colors the drama of a sporting event—funny yet somehow sad. Here the Blackhawks are playing one of the most exciting, dramatic Stanley Cup playoff series in memory.

Permanent resurrects Clone Records' dead stock

by Kevin Warwick on April 20, 2012 at 7:22AM

A couple weeks back, I was one of many recipients of a Permanent Records e-blast emphatically titled "Clone Records Warehouse Find!" Unlike Permanent's weekly store and label updates, which detail new stock, recommended restocks, and the like, this one discussed nothing but releases from very much defunct Akron label Clone Records.

Projections for the future

by Ben Sachs on April 19, 2012 at 10:18AM

The print of Time Bandits that Doc Films screened last night was far from perfect. The first few reels had degraded and taken on a pinkish hue; others appeared washed out, as if the film been exposed to sunlight before processing; and the music sounded like it was came from an old transistor radio.

The jacket says Beethoven. But as he waits for the photographer to set up, what's running through his head?

And I think that song ain't going out of my head . . .

by Michael Miner on April 18, 2012 at 7:50AM

During his years in Chicago leading the CSO, I knew exactly what question I'd ask Georg Solti if I had the chance. “If someone stopped you on the street,” I’d say to him, “and said ‘What music, right now, is running through your head?’ would you always have an answer?” And if he said “yes,” or “most of the time,” I’d ask Solti to describe the music.

I had too much to dream last night

by Tal Rosenberg on April 18, 2012 at 6:35AM

I'm not a particularly athletic individual, and that undoubtedly has to do with the fact that I spent an inordinate amount of time as a youngster either reading or watching television. One common element of the latter was that television stations programmed huge blocks of children's shows, so there was no reason to change the channel in the afternoon when you came home from school or on the weekends.

The Uptown Theatre's opulent decay

by Elly Fishman on April 17, 2012 at 6:25AM

Last Saturday I went with my 83-year-old grandmother to see Eric Holubow's photography exhibit “In Decay—Stitching America’s Ruins” at the Chicago Cultural Center. My grandmother grew up in Uptown and used to spend her Saturday afternoons going to the Uptown Theatre, where she’d spend ten cents on a vaudeville show and talkie picture.

How I survived the good old days

by J.R. Jones on April 16, 2012 at 10:40AM

Tuesday marks my 15th year at the Reader, but I can't honestly say this means anything more to me than a convenient hook I can use to get this blog post written, so I can move on to the next task. I miss a lot of people who used to work here, but otherwise I have few fond feelings for the Reader's illustrious past.

A park in Hungary literally called Nostalgia Park

All week long, taking a trip down memory lane

by Tal Rosenberg on April 16, 2012 at 6:35AM

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "nostalgia" as: 1) the state of being homesick, or 2) a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. Nowadays, nostalgia seems to be popping up everywhere, from the recent reemergence of Mad Men to news coverage of a long-gestating Lyndon Johnson biography to a book with the premise that nostalgia is the overriding current of present day culture.

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