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Hayao Miyazaki's millennial odyssey
Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind creates a world 1,000 years after the demise of our own. by Ben Sachs Hayao Miyazaki's first major theatrical work (1984), adapted from a manga...
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Gossip Wolf: People-watching at Pitchfork
Gossip Wolf: People-watching at Pitchfork, new material from Pezband, and a farewell to Cross Record. by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil On Sunday Lady Gaga hit Pitchfork for the second year running, this...
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In the weeds of the state's medical marijuana law
Illinois's new cannabis program will help some ill patients, but its many rules, restrictions, and uncertainties are a real buzz kill. by Mick Dumke Despite what you may have heard, you're not going...
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Reader's Agenda Wed 7/24: Philip Caputo, Twin Peaks, and Medea in Pilsen
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:For Philip Caputo's newest memoir, The Longest Road, the Pulitzer Prize winner traveled from America's southernmost point to its northernmost...
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Gig poster of the week: a cool treat from Pissed Jeans
ARTIST: Ryan DugganSHOW: Pissed Jeans at Pitchfork Music Festival on Sat 7/20MORE INFO: ryanduggan.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Mayor Rahm plays musical chairs with CPS teachers
By coincidence, I was driving across town with one out-of-work art teacher, when another out-of-work art teacher called to say he just got a job. Call one art teacher Annie and the other art teacher...
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Did you read about Ryan Braun, Newton Murray, and Walter White?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That automation"makes us better off collectively by making some of us worse off"? —Steve Bogira•This defense of...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Ebb and Flow," an agile slice of postbop from drummer...
Over the last decade and a half or so one of my favorite jazz saxophonists has been Michael Blake, the Vancouver native who first made his name as a member of one of the final lineups of John Lurie's...
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Tapmeisters unite at CHRP's jubilant "JUBA!"
Tapmeisters unite at CHRP's jubilant "JUBA!" by Laura Molzahn The "JUBA!" shows that close Chicago Human Rhythm Project's 23rd annual "Rhythm World" fest begin with a bang. Next Monday, in an intimate...
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Street View 110: Riot Grrrl revisited at Pitchfork 2013—and more
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.This is festival attire in my book: something you could dive in the mud with and still...
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Soriano is player being named earlier in deal with Yankees
Ah, midsummer—a great time to follow two baseball teams, what with the pennant races heating up. If you'd like to do that, just pick teams in some other towns.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments...
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Get to know local rapper Lucki Ecks as he drops his debut mixtape,...
Tonight Fake Shore Drive hosts a listening party for Alternative Trap, the debut mixtape from local rapper Lucki Ecks, and it's taken him by surprise. He's only released a handful of songs, but the...
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Bread pudding and all that jazz at M Vie
We hadn't actually wanted the bread pudding. What we really, really wanted was to get the hell out of M Vie.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday
This Friday at 8 PM Chicago Filmmakers and South Side Projections will copresent a program of cat-related short films in the parking lot of Filmmakers' Andersonville location; it runs again on Saturday...
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A big to-do over a road that's been around since 2002
The Sun-Times just took readers for a spin. They traveledChicago's 'Bat Cave,' as the banner headline across page one of Monday's paper dubbed the 2.5-mile busway that links lower Randolph Street and...
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Chicago French Film Festival: Naturalist dramas and formalist filmmaking
Select reviews of screenings at this year's Chicago French Film Festival, hosted by the Music Box Theatre. The Chicago French Film Festival runs Friday, July 26, through Thursday, August 1, at the...
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Key Ingredient: Topolobampo's Andres Padilla transforms cock's combs
Topolobampo's Andres Padilla turns cock's combs into an elegant summer plate. by Julia Thiel The Chef: Andres Padilla (Topolobampo) The Challenger: Carl Shelton (Boka) The red, fleshy comb that sits...
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Seiche
Seiche's downer prog-sludge predated grunge by a decade but went almost completely unheard at the time. by Plastic Crimewave[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Should I marry my roughhousing, possibly asexual, crap-in-bed true love?
Dan on an ill-considered match and a married straight man getting enthusiastic blow jobs from dudes, plus more advice for FURFAG. by Dan Savage QI've been mostly happily married for 15 years. I'm a...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 7/25: Fiesta del Sol, Newberry Book Fair, Chicago Reader...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The largest Latino festival in the midwest, Pilsen's annual Fiesta del Sol, kicks off today with local music, an art pavillion, authentic...
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