Many of Chicago’s blues venues feel like tourist traps or museums, but this tiny Calumet Heights dive is the real deal, a welcoming place to hear terrific music. Sundays Tre’ and the BlueKnights play an appealing hybrid of blues and rock ‘n’ roll, and DJs spin old-school R & B, house and steppers’ cuts on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. But Monday is the best night to show up, when harmonica legend Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues hold court. As Branch makes his way around the circular bar, don’t be surprised if he blows a few stray notes in your ear.
Today in the Culture: March 10, 2021 | Theater Workers Take on Playbill | City Advances Blues and Culinary Projects FILM & TV The Open Matrix Lily Wachowski of "Matrix" fame is joining the newly formed OTV Studio, a for-profit spinoff of OTV/Open Television, cofounded by 2017 Newcity "Film Leader of the Moment" Aymar Jean Christian, as a creative advisor and strategic partner. Wachowski talked to Deadline about the new alliance. "'As a queer trans woman, I am acutely aware…
