CHICAGO – If you’ve never seen the farcical ensemble theater chestnut “Noises Off,” you will see no better version than on the Steppenwolf Theatre stage, now at their northside Chicago venue through November 3rd. For tickets and details for this riotous theater experience, click NOISES OFF.
Music Review
Slideshow, Review: Green Day at Wrigley Field on Aug 13, 2024, Photos by Jeff ‘Doc’ Doles
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 15, 2024 - 5:29pmCHICAGO – When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade—or in my case, when life gives you a denied photo pass, you grab a disposable camera and go full 1990s at a Green Day concert. I was all set to capture every sweat drop and guitar riff from the photo pit, but ironically this photographer was invited to the show without his camera.
Music Review: Iron Maiden Conjures the Soul of Heavy Metal in Chicagoland Concert
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 19, 2017 - 10:49amCHICAGO – On a hot and humid night – with dark ominous clouds enveloping the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Tinley Park, Ill. on June 15th, 2017 – the crowd gathered to see Iron Maiden, and spilled into their seats like a cold beer from the tap. The heavy metal-loving masses, with their torn jeans and ever-present mullets, got ready for the latest show in the band’s “The Book of Souls” World Tour by responding in Pavlovian fashion to UFO’s “Doctor Doctor” (Maiden’s intro song), as it boomed from the venue’s speakers.