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Concert Mon Sep 15 2008 Third annual Umbrella Music Festival lineup announced
For the third straight year, the aptly named musician/promoter collective Umbrella Music will bring improvisers and jazz musicians from around the country and globe to Chicago for five days of music, November 5th through 9th.
The festival is perhaps without peer in the United States in terms of bringing cutting edge European acts to perform stateside, and its emphasis on musical meetings between local musicians and those from other cities and countries adds an alchemical element to the proceedings. The festival will once again open with a free multi-stage evening of performances at the Chicago Cultural Center and then move to venues across the city for concerts.
This year's festival brings in free jazz luminary John Tchicai, Italian free noise punk power trio Zu, New York based cornetist and composer Taylor Ho Bynum, and Globe Unity Orchestra founder Alexander Von Schlippenbach to town, amongst many others. For a full list of the offerings, visit umbrellamusic.org

- Daniel Melnick

Markov--a prominent writer and journalist--had defected to London in the late 1960s, but continued to energize the Bulgarian dissident community with his writings and radio commentary. Supporters thought of Markov as the Bulgarian Solzhenitsyn; the regime perceived him as the enemy whose activities justified the use of 'special means' of elimination.
In September 1978, the means reached the end--Markov died in a London hospital of a mysterious flu-like illness, four days after being injected with the poison ricin, concentrated in a pellet doctors found in Markov's body post-mortem. Markov told colleagues he remembered someone pricking him in the leg as he walked across Waterloo Bridge to work that day; when he turned to see who it was, he said he noticed a stranger picking up an umbrella from the ground. Since then, the ominous legend of the 'Bulgarian umbrella' that was used as a murder weapon spread throughout Europe. It was widely believed that the assassin used the umbrella's tip to inject the ricin pellet into Markov's body. But Hristov argues in his book that the assassin used the umbrella not as weapon but as a distraction, and that the real weapon was a pen-like injection--the kind of device for 'mechanical ejection of special needles, containing swift poisons,' described in Addendum 13.
Thirty years later, Bulgarian authorities decided to forego the statute of limitation on Markov's case and keep the investigation open. As they should. The purported killer--Francesco Gullino, a Dane of Italian origin contracted for the job by the Bulgarian communist leadership under the code name 'Piccadilly'--is still at large

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