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Tickets are now on sales for L7’s concert on October 15 at Metro in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood. The band will perform the entire Bricks Are Heavy album to honor its 30th Anniversary, along with other material. Patti Smith has a concert coming up there on May 4. The gigs are part of Metro’s 40th anniversary celebration.

When The Who perform on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS tonight, it will be to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Teen Cancer America. Founding members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry started the charity organization in 2012 to help young people they felt were overlooked when it comes in cancer treatment.

The Chicago-based indie record label Pravda is staging Pravdafest in collaboration with Sketchbook Brewing Company on June 24 and 25. The event will celebrate Pravda’s 38 years of showcasing unique recording artists, and introduce a new Sketchbook beer called Pravda38. Josh Caterer, Steve Dawson, Hushdrops, and Boom Hank are scheduled to perform on the 24th and The Slugs, The Service, Diplomats Of Sound, and The Handcuffs are scheduled for 25th. That’s what you call an impressive lineup.

Wilco will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of its groundbreaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album with a 2022 tour that includes concerts on April 22 and 23 at the elegant Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. Band leader Jeff Tweedy will discuss the album on WXRT’s new series On The Record series this coming Monday, April 18, at 8:00 pm.

Chicago photographer Bill Sosin will be showcasing his work from 5:00 to 7:00 pm next Saturday, April 23 at the Chicago Art Source/Gallery 1871 at 1871 N. Clybourn on the 2nd floor. Artist Melissa Herrington will also be displaying her work at the exhibit.

The Cine Youth Festival 2022, which bills itself as a “celebration of the next generation of filmmakers from around the world,” will take place next weekend, April 22 – 24 at Facets on Fullerton Avenue.

So you think he’d be fun? Well, you’re probably right. Robin Hitchcock will bring his eclectic and melodic repertoire to the Old Town School Of Folk Music next Thursday. April 21.

Next Saturday, April 23 will mark the 15th Anniversary of Record Store Day, with limited-edition LPs coming to retail outlets across the globe. Vinyl junkies can show their appreciation by ordering a copy of author Larry Jaffee's new book Record Store Day - The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century.

Tickets are now on sale for the hour-long Prince: The Immersive Experience, which opens at The Shops At North Bridge In Chicago on June 9. The official website promises 10 multidimensional spaces, and an opportunity to “step inside the iconic Purple Rain album cover.” All ages are welcome.

The Petty Hearts - The National Tom Petty Tribute Show comes to the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights next Saturday, April 23. Five days later, Shout! - The Mod Musical opens and will run through June 11.

My nephew Joe Flamm will celebrate the first anniversary of his Croatian-Italian restaurant Rose Mary in style on April 20. Joe was the Season 15 winner of Top Chef on the Bravo Channel, and he’s invited some fellow competitors to join him for a special event at the Fulton Market area restaurant. Chefs Joe Sasto, Carrie Baird, Adrienne Cheatham, and Tyler Anderson, who’ve all gone on to great success since the competition, will be on hand. The price is $150 per person, and 20% of all tickets will be donated to Alex’s Lemonade Stand in its battle against childhood cancer. On a related note, Joe had a guest appearance as a judge on the current season of Top Chef last night.

 

Not a Chef Show. That’s the description given by the official Seinfeld Facebook page regarding the Seinfeld Food Truck Tour. I’ve never heard of it before but apparently it’s been going on for at least a decade, and Junior Mints are on the menu. The Seinfeld Food Truck Tour will visit Chicago this year on the weekend of April 29 – May 1, but I wasn’t able to learn exactly where. Other cities on the tour include New York and Los Angeles (4/22 – 4/24) obviously, there’s more than one truck; Dallas (5/6 – 5/8); and San Francisco (5/13 – 5/15). The numerous comments in response to the Seinfeld Facebook announcement were pretty much all catch phrases, such as, “No soup for you!” Speaking of which, I met Larry Thomas, the actor whose terse delivery made the Soup Nazi so memorable, at the Wizard World Comic Con in Rosemont a few years back. I told him he must be one the most imitated actors ever from a sitcom, and he seemed to agree.