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    Pomona 6/20/2009

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Maudie it looks like you have a new camera! those pictures are fab :)

     

    Also, Donna, it sounds like you had a great time -- I am so glad you and the rest of the Kidsmoke contingent got to be there!!

    Hey LouieB

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Jun 29, 2009 11:55 am

    Discussion Planned On Future Of Uptown Theatre

    Chicago Architecture Foundation To Host Documentary Screening, Talk On Restoration Efforts

     

     

    The long-vacant Uptown Theatre looks much the same as it did nearly a year ago when JAM Productions bought it with plans to bring live concerts back.

     

    But many Chicagoans are eagerly awaiting its reopening, and they may get some updates this Wednesday.

     

    The Chicago Architecture Foundation on Wednesday will screen, "Portrait of a Palace," a documentary film on the history of the Uptown Theatre, 4814 N. Broadway, which has been boarded up since early 1981. Afterward, JAM Productions founder Jerry Mickelson and Friends of the Uptown volunteer Andy Pierce will talk about the history and planned renovation of the theatre.

     

    The free screening and discussion are set for 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Chicago Architecture Foundation's first floor gallery in the Santa Fe Building, 24 S. Michigan Ave.

     

    When the Uptown Theatre opened in 1925, it was touted as "an acre of seats in a magic city." The theater originally showed movies and held stage shows by entertainers including Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, and Judy Garland when she still went by the name Frances Ethel Gumm, among others. It also boasted the second largest Wurlizter theater pipe organ in the world, Friends of the Uptown reported.

     

    But the theater went into decline in the 1960s. It found some success as a concert venue in the 1970s – hosting A-list artists including the Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley.

     

    But in early 1981, the theater closed its doors following a sale and serious problems with deferred maintenance, Friends of the Uptown reported. Since then, the building has been used as a site for the filming of a few movies, and its lobby hosted the Hearts Party HIV/AIDS benefit. But otherwise it has been shuttered.

     

    Numerous other former movie palaces across the city have been demolished in the past two decades, but the Uptown is protected by landmark status.

     

    Last year, the theater was subjected to a forced judicial sale because of confusion about who actually owned it. JAM Productions, which already owns the nearby Riviera Theater, paid $3 million for the Uptown in July 2008. The company announced plans to renovate the theater and bring back live concerts.

     

    A forced judicial sale was held because of confusion about who actually owns the theater. While Standard Bank and Trust is the legal title holder, the beneficiary is the now-dissolved corporation Cercore Properties, the Chicago Tribune reported.

     

    Jam Productions paid a little more than $3 million at a court-ordered auction Tuesday to re-create the magic. The theater at 4814 N. Broadway had been boarded up since 1981.

     

    Friends of the Uptown is also holding a fundraiser in September at the Sanfilippo Estate in Barrington Hills. The $40-per-ticket fundraiser will feature tours of the mechanical musical devices and historical artifacts at the estate, and a theatre organ concert. It's set for Sept. 20 at 2 p.m.

     

    Fingers crossed. Wouldn't a Wilco show there be all kinds of awesome??

    Obama jokes

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I thought I'd start a thread for when late night comedians actually come up something that's clever and funny that takes jabs at Barack Obama. Besides SNL, Obama has been pretty much untouchable since the election.

     

    So it was refreshing to see a bit on Jimmy Fallon that, while not mean-spirited and personal like the millions of anti-Bush and Cheney jokes that still flood the late night shows, found a way to jab President Obama, however so lightly:

     

    http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2009/04/jimmy-fallon-obama-facial-expressions.html

     

    I guess you don't watch The Daily Show. Obama gets something basically everytime I see it.

    Jay Bennett R.I.P

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Wow -- what shocking news. Really really sad. Condolences to his family and friends, many of them here on this board.

     

    Fitting somehow that I got a text tonight about this from the friend that got me to see Wilco live for the first time in '04. I was taking a break from the computer so didn't see the news until now.

     

    Godspeed, Jay.

    Wilco appreciation thread?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Ummm, the lead singer/drummer and main dude from that band I've been trying to get support for over in SES. He's a HUGE fan too! :thumbup

     

    Oh, see, I generally don't go there.... it's the freaking wild wild west in that forum :lol

     

    Pics? :heehee

    Wilco appreciation thread?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Wilco consistently makes my days, weeks, months, years better and is a HUGE, WONDERFUL, IMPORTANT part of my life!!!

     

    I've made same great friends here and met my current b/f thanks to Wilco! This music has saved my life, no joke!

     

     

    Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much to Jeff & the boys and all that they do!!! :worship

     

    WHO?????

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