Touchdown, Donald Driver!
23.05.2012, 03:02:00
Green Bay Packers receiver Donald Driver is a Super Bowl champion and now a “Dancing With the Stars” winner.
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CSO gets ambitious with 'Keys to the City'
22.05.2012, 23:33:00
CSO's 3-week event promises in-depth look at instrument Music festivals typically invite listeners to regard familiar pieces in different contexts and perspectives, seek out musical connections between scores, and discover new things about works they may have long taken for granted.
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Summer celebrity spotting about to heat up
22.05.2012, 19:04:00
Conan O'Brien, Charlie Sheen, Reese Witherspoon, Peyton Manning coming to Chicago Now is when Chicago’s celebrity scene gets interesting.
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Beach Boys mix nostalgia, surf, melancholy at Chicago Theatre
22.05.2012, 14:38:00
Brian Wilson all the rage, as 44 songs survey 50 years of music Brian Wilson broke character Monday at the Chicago Theatre in the first of two 50th anniversary concerts by his longtime band.
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Grant Achatz helping U.S. win culinary gold
21.05.2012, 23:09:00
Achatz teams with competition chef to bring U.S. culinary gold Alinea/Next chef/co-owner Grant Achatz is teaming with a chef to bring the U.S. culinary gold in the Bocuse d'Or competition.
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Robin Gibb, Bee Gees helped define disco era
21.05.2012, 18:36:07
LONDON (Reuters) - Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who with brothers Barry and Maurice helped define the disco era with their falsetto harmonies and funky beats on hits like "Stayin' Alive" and "Jive Talkin'", has died after a long fight with cancer. He was 62. The singer had colon and liver cancer and, despite brief improvements in his health in recent months, passed away on Sunday evening. Gibb died at the London Clinic surrounded by his second wife Dwina, sons Spencer and Robin-John and daughter Melissa. Officials at the clinic declined to comment on Monday. Barry, now the last surviving member of the Bee Gees, had been in Britain in recent weeks to see his ailing brother, but was in the United States when he died. Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced later this week, a spokesman said. "The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time," read a statement on Gibb's website. Fans, fellow musicians and politicians paid tribute to the musician, and at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas late on Sunday the show stopped for a moment of silence to honor him. Canadian rocker Bryan Adams was among the stars who took to Twitter to say farewell. "Robin Gibb RIP. Very sad to hear about yet another great singer dying too young," he wrote, referring to the death on Thursday of another giant of the disco era, Donna Summer. She was 63. In Britain, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, a friend, called Gibb "a highly intelligent, interested and committed human being. "He was a great friend with a wonderful open and fertile mind and a student of history and politics. I will miss him very much," he said in a statement. "My thoughts and prayers are with Dwina and all the family." Gibb spent much of a career spanning six decades pursuing solo projects. But it was his part in one of pop's most successful brother acts, the Bee Gees, that earned him fame and fortune. Born in 1949 on the Isle of Man, located between England and Ireland, Robin and his family moved to Manchester where the brothers performed in local cinemas. They went to live in Australia where the Bee Gees as a group was officially born, and in 1963 released the first single "The Battle Of The Blue And The Grey." Believing their future lay in Europe, the Gibb brothers travelled to England to pursue a career in music and had their first British number one with "Massachusetts" in 1967. TRAIN CRASH The same year, Robin and wife-to-be Molly survived the Hither Green rail crash in south London that claimed around 50 lives. He later recalled that they probably would have been killed had they not been sitting in a first class carriage. Rather than build on the early successes, the Bee Gees almost threw away the promising career they had worked so hard to achieve. After recording the double-LP set "Odessa," the siblings fell out over which track should be the single and Robin walked out. Two years later the Gibbs were back together, and the 1970s was to belong to them. Early in the decade
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Robin Gibb: A Bee Gees voice filled with more than just disco
21.05.2012, 17:42:00
Their hits could fill an entire Saturday night, last until the first church bell rang on Sunday morning and provide a sweat-drenched workout on the dance floor that broke only for the slow numbers. Even more remarkable was that each classic gem of the Bee Gees,whose co-founder Robin Gibb died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, would be packed with feeling.
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R. Crumb stars at Hyde Park comics panel
20.05.2012, 22:18:00
Alternative comics legends, headlined by R. Crumb, make for quite a scene in Hyde Park Alternative comics legends, headlined by R. Crumb, make for quite a scene in Hyde Park.
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