Musical musings from the mind of Sunshine
One of the unexpected upsides of the world shutting down has been the absolute avalanche of artists doing live-streamed shows and posting new material online. Aside from Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard, who recently wrapped his series of daily shows that we highlighted two weeks ago, it seems like everyone’s getting into the game as folks …
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Root Stock – fantastic little bakery with amazing breakfast sandwiches (and pretty fantastic lunch ones too). They do em all on housemade biscuits (buttermilk, peppercorn and chive, sweet potato, even chocolate!) and they’re gooey, oozy messes – I liked their version of ham and cheese (city ham, pimento cheese, pickles, and egg) and their biscuits …
Sunshine’s/Diablo’s Happy Space: These are some of my favorite places in my beloved city by the lake, aka THE GREATEST PLACE ON EARTH (#GPOE!) They’re the spots that get my stomach rumbling and my heart aching whenever I’m away, and the first places I plan to go to when I land at O’Hare. The question …
Like Punxsutawney Phil (or the furry groundhog asleep on my lap now in his spastic explorations of the couch each night) I’ve been burrowed deep in my hole since you last saw me, hoping for a reprieve from all the cold and nonsense swirling at the surface. And while Phil seems to think it’s going …
What the fuck just happened? That’s mostly a rhetorical question – I’m up on the smorgasbord of smiles that are our current events and know I engorged myself like a feudal tsar for the holiday yesterday — but it’s also a question that’s emblematic for the year we just completed. Because, honestly – what the …
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Since I’m home with a sick pup whose recovery plan includes sleeping on my lap in as unbroken a stretch as possible (bathroom breaks and beverage refills be DAMNED!), thought I’d capitalize on the stasis to throw out some songs that got caught in my snatches since last time. First, in honor of his beloved …
Before the big sportsball exhibitions kick off tonight, wanted to highlight some really good releases that’ve come out in the past week — as well as some solid retrospectives on a few beloved bands/albums. In honor of this evening there are four of them and they cover the past four-plus decades, taking us all the …
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Of course it being the weekend and finally having an opportunity to sleep in a little, my body decides to wake up even earlier than during the week (4am instead of the normally sporty 5), compounding the deficit we’ll all shortly have with the extra hour of sleep we lose tonight. Whether you lose a …
Since I can’t manage to do much else this weekend, having apparently obliterated a nerve in the midst of such strenuous activities as stretching when I woke up yesterday morning, I slowly clawed my way to the keyboard to throw out a few finds before I pass out from not being able to breathe. They’re …
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