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The Night Rock Fans Rioted to Kill Disco—at a Chicago Baseball Game
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAs Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl drove...
Last dance: 'The War on Disco' revisits Demolition Night in Chicago during 1979
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when American Experience's Cameo George reached out and told him ...
Column: Rat Hole Park? Second City Stadium? It’s never too early to name the new White Sox Park.
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Sports· 5 months agoEveryone is giddy for the new White Sox ballpark in the South Loop, even without the team or the...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Friday the 13th
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoTomorrow is Friday the 13th — a day that some deem doomed. According to folklore, Friday plus 13 equals a double dose of bad luck. What does that mean?...
Why Baseball Doc ‘Saint of Second Chances’ Is Making Grown Men Cry
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNetflix“The most beautiful thing is a ballpark filled with people,” says the late Bill Veeck in an...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: 100 years of WLS — the ‘World’s Largest Store’ — radio
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe year 1924 was a memorable one in Chicago. Construction of Soldier Field was completed. Two wealthy University of Chicago students committed what they called “the perfect murder.” And a company ...
The last great Chicago DJ? With Lin Brehmer’s death and rise of AI, are radio’s glory days over?
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe death of iconic WXRT-FM disc jockey Lin Brehmer not only left a hole in Chicago’s once mighty rock radio landscape, it’s a further reminder of the slow fade of the age when big personalities ...
Maine filmmakers explore 1970s disco backlash
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 30—Grainy TV news footage from 1979 shows thousands of people swarming over the field at Chicago's Comiskey Park, burning stacks of dance records and holding banners that read "Disco Sucks ...
