Spearhead Chicago

10/12/2012

What?! http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2012/tracy-letts/

Tracy Letts is both a revered stage performer and a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright.

20/10/2012

If you didn't read it in September, you might want to now. Ike Holter's HIT THE WALL is headed to Barrow Street in NY. Check out "The Real Ike Holter" by our very own Josh Jaeger here: http://spearheadchicago.tumblr.com/post/31054556738/the-real-ike-holter

Josh Jaeger I’m standing outside the Steppenwolf Garage. It’s around 5 o’clock on a Wednesday in early April. It’s unusually hot for Chicago in Spring. In fact, today it feels like a different season entirely, as compared to the Sunday before and the Wednesday before that, each of which was plagu...

19/10/2012

Ike Holter's Hit the Wall headed for Barrow Street in 2013. Congrats? No. HOLLADAZZLE from your Spearhead fans.

19/10/2012

We're hearing rumors...exciting rumors.

19/10/2012

Photography by Ross Feighery Photography, Samantha Hylla and Kelsey Jorissen

19/10/2012

10-17-12 Chris Jones says, "And where Chicago goes first, New York usually follows."

16/10/2012

Check out the photos from the ISSUE I - Fall 2012. We are getting excited for ISSUE II - coming this winter!

15/10/2012

some lovely fall music we love. anyone have some good CHICAGO artists taking it to the streets? share it with us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPwRdVg5Ug&feature=related&noredirect=1

Lake Street Dive is releasing a new EP entitled Fun Machine on May 29, 2012 on Signature Sounds Recordings. Fun Machine features five covers and one original...

14/10/2012

WHAT. This is what we're watching right now! http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/36096/felix+baumgartner+is+headed+up+for+his+23-mile-high+skydive/

PRESS THE PLAY BUTTON ABOVE TO WATCH THE LIVE BROADCAST With favorable weather in the forecast for Roswell, New Mexico, Sunday, Felix Baumgartner's Red Bull Stratos team is scrambling to make another early-morning launch attempt of his daring mission the edge of space, where he's hoping to break a...

13/10/2012

Y'ALL. We just joined Instagram. Follow us there or on our Twitter to get all the behind the scenes info on ISSUE II!

12/10/2012

Did you like our shoot with Shannon Matesky? Well rumor has it we're doing the first shoot for the second issue tomorrow at The Green Mill with the same photographer - Samantha Hylla. GET PUMPED.

04/10/2012

Um.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZxXwI2IjiU

Actors Will Allen (now appearing in GOOD PEOPLE at Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and Dan Waller (now appearing in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH at Goodman Theatre) disc...

04/10/2012

Check out our first original Illustration by our very own Melanie Plank! Fall 2012 is bringing on lots of overwhelming . http://spearheadchicago.tumblr.com/post/32878578776/the-very-first-spearhead-original-illustration

The very first Spearhead original illustration. Spearhead Illustrator, Melanie Plank Fall of 2012.

29/09/2012

Staff hung out for this week's paper machete show at The Horseshoe.

28/09/2012

Our director of video is also a very talented musical writer! Check out her latest project "There She Is" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTghugpLZTs&feature=plcp

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Janie Killips

22/09/2012

We will be at United Film Festival: Chicago tomorrow. So excited to see some great films!! What are you doing this weekend?

14/09/2012

What do you think?

Brought to you by Diamond Nexus Show Producer: Chris Ho Creative Director: Chris Ho Models: Ford Models Hair & Makeup: Mario Tricoci Venue: Lyric Opera of Chicago AKIRA…

13/09/2012

Dexter Bullard, Michael Shannon AND Craig Wright. MAKING CHICAGO PROUD. http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/theater/midwest-musketeers-storm-broadway.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1347567170-ogEzyM4W/b7nOhNPBe/00A

10/09/2012

So, the first issue came out Friday...it reached 5,000 + people so far. WE. ARE. PUMPED. Keep spreading the word faithful readers!!! Get us out there!

10/09/2012

Janie Killips, our Director of Film, is having a birthday today! Celebrate by watching her video for "The Stacks"! http://spearheadchicago.tumblr.com/post/31055116108/watch-our-live-session-with-the-stacks

Watch our Live Session with The Stacks!

07/09/2012

Click the link and Download the First Issue of Spearhead Chicago! (PDF)https://www.dropbox.com/s/tyt5isu2yrdshq1/Spearhead%20Chicago%20First%20Issue.pdf

07/09/2012

http://spearheadchicago.tumblr.com/post/31055116108/watch-our-live-session-with-the-stacks

Watch our Live Session with The Stacks!

07/09/2012

http://spearheadchicago.tumblr.com/post/31054556738/the-real-ike-holter

Josh Jaeger I’m standing outside the Steppenwolf Garage. It’s around 5 o’clock on a Wednesday in early April. It’s unusually hot for Chicago in Spring. In fact, today it feels like a different season...

07/09/2012

http://spearheadchicago.tumblr.com/post/31054556751/shannon-matesky-how-the-pauper-is-the-princess

Jacob C. Shuler She sits in the makeup chair with a posture better-suited for a throne. Her eyelids, perhaps the calmest you’ve ever seen, graciously accept their liner. Between blush-filled...

07/09/2012

http://spearheadchicago.tumblr.com/post/31055114627/the-stacks-the-band-thatll-melt-your-popsicle

Brittany Squier “I hate this kind of stuff,” says coy guitarist and vocalist of The Stacks, Alex Hardaway as they prepare to film their first music video. The three band members, Alex, Adam, and Joe...

07/09/2012

ONLY A FEW SHORT HOURS!

05/09/2012

Thanks to Nick for helping us reach 100 likes - how many more can we get before launch???

05/09/2012

Inspiring us just before we launch? THIS. Chicago theatre is IN YOUR FACE. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/ct-ae-0902-jones-20120830,0,2167142.column?dssReturn

Over the past 25 years or so, two surging art forms have elevated cultural Chicago on the global stage: theater and fine dining. Is this coincidence or correlation?

05/09/2012

Almost at 100 likes! Who is going to be the one to get us there? We launch online on Friday! Printed copies coming VERY VERY soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

02/09/2012

ARE YOU READY CHICAGO? 5 days in counting...