In a classic Chicago storefront space, the size of an average apartment, Permanent Records is the young version of what you’d expect from mom-and-pop joints. Ever-friendly and well-informed Lance Barresi and Liz Tooley are exemplars of the think globally, act locally ethos: the biz plan of the big bad bricks-‘n’-mortar stores has fallen, but the possibility of sweet, unpretentious local enterprise lives on. Vinyl! CDs! Newsletters! Podcasts! In-store appearances of bands you’d likely see drop into joints in the owners’ old stomping ground of Columbia, Missouri! Plus, of course, a cool cat calls it home.
This Week in the Culture: January 8, 2021 ART Building Stories Sequel? If you're waiting for Chris Ware to finish the second installment of his epic "Rusty Brown" (perhaps circa 2030 based on how long Volume One took?), you can get a fix, of sorts, in the most unlikely place: he created the cover of the "2019 North Suburban Reassessment Report." In this riveting text—OK, in its defense,…
