Music Reviews
"Mexicanos al Grito de Rock" @ The Aragon (Chicago Tribune)
"Mexican pride rocks at the Aragon"
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Tempo
Date: April 28, 2008
Music Reviews
The Mars Volta @ The Aragon (Chicago Tribune)
"The Mars Volta hits hard, loud, otherworldly"
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Tempo
Date: April 22, 2008
Music Reviews
CD: "Tijuana Sound Machine" (Chicago Tribune)
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Arts & Entertainment
Date: April 20, 2008
Music Reviews
CDs: “TTM Greatest Hits” & “Latin Bitman” (Chicago Tribune)
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Arts & Entertainment
Date: April 6, 2008
Features
Chicago Performance Poetry (Chicago Tribune)
"Fighting words: Checking in on the sass and spirit of the city's open-mic battlegrounds
Hiss, grunt, snap—become well-versed"
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: On the Town
Date: April 4, 2008
Eternal poet laureate of Illinois Carl Sandburg said it from the jump of the 20th Century: My city can kick your city's butt. Just listen to the rusting, hulking lilt of Sandburg's "Chicago Poems" and you can hear a city set to brawl, a pugilist ready to hit the mark and make his name.
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Black Moth Super Rainbow @ The Empty Bottle (Chicago Tribune)
"Black Moth drawn to the light of a psychedelic, self-indulgent night"
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Tempo
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008
Music Reviews
CDs: "Latin Reggae" & "Lotería Beats" (Chicago Tribune)
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Arts & Entertainment
Date: March 2, 2008