Sunday is Johnny Cash's 80th birthday, so don your finest black suit. Here is a video of Cash performing "Boy Named Sue," alongside the songwriter (and Chicago son) Shel Silverstein. more ›

Over the past twenty-years director Spike Jonze has stretched the reaches of our imaginations with not only his mind-bending movies like Being John Malcovich and Where the Wild Things Are, but also his visually thrilling music videos for artists like Bjork and The Beastie Boys. If Sinatra saw the world through rose-colored-glasses, then Jonze sees it through a a psychedelic kalidescope on LSD. more ›

• He's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
• The Sun-Times looks into a fence that cost taxpayers over $45,000 but seems to have benefited Ald. Ed Burke (14th) the most by keeping those damn kids with their rock'n'roll music off his lawn.
• Jackie Heard, Mayor Daley's press secretary, is not amused with media reports suggesting she rented a house to drug dealers.

At the Old Town School of Folk Music on Friday, Chicagoist saw Bobby Bare, Jr. & Sr. perform on the same stage. From the moment that Bobby Bare, Jr. entered the stage, kicked his shoes off, and started tuning the guitar we knew that we were in for some fun on Friday night. Bobby Bare, Jr. played solo for one song among a stage littered with instruments and then the band entered for a quick... more ›