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Entries Tagged as 'Punk'

Saturday, May 24: The Relaunch of Planet Earth Chicago at Subterranean

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 15th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

Here’s another very fun event on the horizon: What are you doing next Saturday night? Feel like going New Wave dancing with some of the most flamboyant and fabulous Earthlings in Chicago, at a groovy new location? Here’s what I’m talking about:

Some of you know that over the last eight years I’ve been heavily involved […]

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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Chicago · New Wave · Ska · Punk · New Romantic · Nightclubs · Planet Earth Chicago

Roundup: Where All the Corn Cobs Are Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am


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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Music · Science · Tech · Food · LGBT · George W. Bush · New Wave · The B-52's · Film · Climate Change · Internet · Books · Comics · HIV · Star Trek · AIDS · Health · Advertising · Animals & Environment · Human Rights · Nature · Punk · Labor · Civil Rights · Fantasy · Pets · Europe · Healthcare Crisis · Law · Justice System · Organic Food · Roundup · Fiction · India · Death Penalty

Coming in November: The History of Chicago Punk on Film

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 26th, 2007 at 3:10 pm


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Tags: Culture · Music · Chicago · New Wave · Film · History · Video · Punk · Documentaries · Illinois · Peoria

The Oingo Boingo Video Vault: Gong Show, Flaming Bathtub, and an Urgh! Outtake

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 18th, 2007 at 10:47 pm


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Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · Film · TV · Video · Punk · Documentaries

Roundup: Skydiving Baby Giraffe Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am


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The Mid-70s Bowie Video Vault: David, Dick, Dinah … and a Dentist

Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 12th, 2007 at 6:59 pm


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Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · TV · Performance · David Bowie · Video · Glam Rock · Punk

Roundup: Still Life with Salmon Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 28th, 2007 at 4:33 am


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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Music · Science · Tech · LGBT · New Wave · Film · Democrats · Apple · iTunes · Barack Obama · Comics · Cardy Pop · Peace · Iraq · Republicans · Animals & Environment · UK/England · Wind Power · Energy · Nature · Punk · John Edwards · 2008 Election · Education · Macintosh · Pets · Dogs · Mitt Romney · Roundup · Gadgets · Dick Cheney

In Chicago: Rachel Claff Is Busting Out All Over

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 17th, 2007 at 6:51 am


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Blogs · Chicago · LGBT · New Wave · Film · Books · Theater · Neo-Futurists · Poetry · Fringe · Performance · Lit · The Partly Dave Show · Punk · Nightclubs

Music: “Free Money” for Rent Day from Patti Smith

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 5th, 2007 at 6:11 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · Chicago · New Wave · Patti Smith · Video · Punk

Music: Captain Sensible — “If You Don’t Talk Happy, and You Never Have a Dream …”

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 18th, 2007 at 6:09 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · Comedy · New Wave · TV · UK/England · Video · Punk

Music: Amnesty International’s Instant Karma — The Campaign to Save Darfur

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pm


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · New Wave · Activism · Beatles · iTunes · Yoko Ono · Human Rights · Darfur · Punk · John Lennon · Amnesty International

Partly Dave Show Tonight!

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 2nd, 2007 at 3:20 am


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Journal · Chicago · LGBT · Comedy · Theater · Neo-Futurists · Fringe · Performance · The Partly Dave Show · Folk-Rock · Even in Blackouts · Punk

Suzi Quatro Rocks Hard in Times Square

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 30th, 2007 at 4:18 pm


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Tags: Culture · Music · Journal · LGBT · New Wave · Film · Video · Glam Rock · Punk

Music: “Good Morning, Britain”

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 5th, 2007 at 6:36 am


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Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · Roddy Frame & Aztec Camera · Cardy Pop · UK/England · Video · Punk