Some people are calling the strange weather “Sprimmer,” or “Sprummer,” for the up-and-down temperatures that resemble spring one day and summer, the next. As long as everything’s blooming, we will take it by any name. Here’s our Sprummer soundtrack.

“Coca Cola,” Pepi Ginsburg
“Could you be loved,” Bob Marley
“The magic of crashing stars,” Tender Forever
“Unwed fathers,” John Prine (+Iris Dement)
“Blackbird,” Crosby, [...]

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Fall Mix Tape: something about fall can be very exhausting. We are adjusting to the shorter days, the darkness, and covered skin. There are rewards: apple cider and donuts, pumpkins, sweaters and scarves, leaf peeping, etcetera. But while you’re struggling with the transition, here are some songs that are keeping the feeling of summer alive.
Chasing [...]

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We still love to work to the tune of heavy break-up songs, but lately we’re also looking for a little 4 o’clock jolt (see the Avett Brothers). Enjoy!
 
1. If it Be Your Will, Leonard Cohen 
2. Typical, Laura Marling
3. My Shadow, Lavender Diamond
4. Stitching Leggings, Kate Nash 
5. Breathe Me, Sia 
6. Dancing Daze, Avett Brothers
7. Wig in a Box, the Polyphonic Spree (Hedwig [...]

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Listening and reading are different. To start, most of us are steeped (and even drowning) in the written word–the daily news, our bills, e-mail correspondence, work memos, proposals, reports, you name it.  But sound can stop us in our tracks, even when we’re most determined to keep trucking. Almost always, it either carries us more [...]

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Here is an exciting project combining oral history with architecture: some of the great Chicago architects talk about their work. Go ahead and click on the excerpt from Gertrude Lemp Kerbis’s interview–her first impression of Taliesen East. 

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