Smashing Pumpkins
Adore (Virgin)
Hated the Pumpkins’ big, blustery arena anthems? Didn’t enjoy Billy Corgan’s agitated whine? Or the oblique, deep-therapy lyrics? Then this is the Pumpkins album for you. With its strange nocturnes and gossamer melodies, “Adore” is a gorgeously intimate work–a bold musical detour in the wake of uber-drummer Jimmy Chamberlin’s ouster. Corgan’s lyrics are more direct even as they address the ambiguity inherent in holding on to love, and his voice has an androgynous delicacy not heard before. “Adore” seduces with its loveliness, then reveals its depth with repeated listens.
![The Ravinia Festival Association filed a motion to dismiss the complaint by Karen Ettelson, former member of the organization’s Women’s Board, who sued the musical festival nonprofit and it’s Board of Trustees for “defamatory conduct,” along with seven other counts, after the Board of Trustees expunged her from the working board for an alleged conduct violation. The motion from the music non-profit, which hosts an annual music festival of the same name each summer, argues the lawsuit should be dismissed because there is no justified reason for the courts to intervene with Ettelson’s volunteer status, board members are immune from […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lake-County-News-Sun.jpg?w=620 "The Ravinia Festival Association filed a motion to dismiss the complaint by Karen Ettelson, former member of the organization’s Women’s Board, who sued the musical festival nonprofit and it’s Board of Trustees for “defamatory conduct,” along with seven other counts, after the Board of Trustees expunged her from the working board for an alleged conduct violation. The motion from the music non-profit, which hosts an annual music festival of the same name each summer, argues the lawsuit should be dismissed because there is no justified reason for the courts to intervene with Ettelson’s volunteer status, board members are immune from […]")
