november 2011 edition.
Sounds
- East of Underground (American Army bands in Germany, 1971-72)
- Elvis Costello, Punch the Clock
- Rubio Quartet, Shostakovich – Complete String Quartets
- VA, That Devilin’ Tune: A Jazz History, 1895-1950 (Allen Lowe‘s compilation, insanely huge and amazing), especially Gene Greene’s extremely weird “King of the Bungaloos”
Words
- Wendy Lesser, Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets
- Nick McDonell, The End of Major Combat Operations
- Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, and Scott Lash, Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Traditions, and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
- Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
- Simon Frith, Taking Popular Music Seriously
Screens
- Boardwalk Empire, Season 2
- Homeland, Season 1
- Thin Red Line
- The Last Metro
Stages
- Timeline Theater, A Walk in the Woods
- Goodman Theater, The Chicago Boys
- Steppenwolf Theater, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan
- Faustin Linyekula/Studios Kabako, more more more…future
- Pickup Performance Co(s), Dancing Henry V
- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
- American Blues Theater, Waiting for Lefty
- Steppenwolf Theater, Clybourne Park
- Victory Gardens Theater, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
- Goodman Theater, Red
Walls
- Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, MCA Chicago
- Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s, MCA Chicago