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Best shows to see: Rabbit Rabbit, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Ken Camden, Mobile...
George? In a world of famous babies named Blue Ivy and North, a world that's apparently breeding more and more Katnisses and Djangos and Imogens by the day, the royal family names its newest son...
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How one Alderman Mell begat the next Alderman Mell
The latest member of the Chicago City Council didn't come out of nowhere. Five years ago I overheard veteran Alderman Richard Mell explaining to a colleague how he cleared the field to get his daughter...
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Did you read about Willie Louis, Marv Rotblatt, and the history of book blurbs?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Willie Louis, who in 1955 braved intimidation and testified against Emmett Till's killers, died last week in...
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12 O'Clock Track: Balance & Composure's gigantic, surging "Reflection"
I've written about the underground emo scene with the kind of consistency that reflects my genuine obsession with a lot of the new crop of bands—a lot, but not all. There are plenty of groups that...
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Chicago Film Archives posts this year's Media Mixer films
In early June Chicago Film Archives hosted its second annual Media Mixer event at the Hideout, a fund-raising event for the organization where filmmakers are invited to create new work from its...
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Introducing the Chicago Underground Music Archive
A beautiful thing about Chicago's vibrant underground music scene is how many people are out there trying to document it—people like John Yingling (who's officially heading to China!) and...
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The snake who ate a stone and other reasons to take the kids to the park
Celebrity veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald—you might have seen him on Animal Planet—was on hand Wednesday when "Animal Connections," a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, opened its Chicago run...
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Playing it safe at Mott St
At Mott St, the folks behind Ruxbin try their hand at Asian street food. by Mike Sula I think I know where Edward Kim is going with the mentaiko kimchi udon he's serving at Mott St, the...
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This week's Chicagoan: Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan
This week's Chicagoan is Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "I moved here from Austin July 6.…[ Read more ][...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 7/26: Cat Film Festival, Fly Honey Show, Chicago French...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The utter ubiquity of cat videos may be an internet phenomenon, but that doesn't mean they never existed before YouTube.…[ Read more ][...
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Catching up with R.I.P.D before it dies, and the rest of this week's screenings
Last week the comic book adaptation R.I.P.D. opened to general disinterest and mostly negative reviews. It failed to enter the top five on the U.S. box office chart, which must hold significance for...
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Science proves love and fear are two sides of the same thing
In his song "Cautious Man," Bruce Springsteen sings about a man who'd "on his right hand . . . tattooed the word 'love' and on his left hand was the word 'fear.'" Turns out that Bruce was onto...
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Did you read about MOOCs, Dan Savage, and Anthony Weiner's hockey skills?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:•This argument against Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs? —Tony Adler• That after raising the country’s...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Elevator" is dramatic, airy neo-goth from Indiana
The boys in TV Ghost, probably the coolest thing to ever come out of Lafayette, Indiana, have gone through a really interesting sonic shift over the past few years. The band, which was started when...
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Torey Malatia leaves WBEZ
Torey Malatia is no longer running Chicago Public Media, which operates radio station WBEZ. In a statement issued Friday, CPM said that after 20 years in charge, Malatia was resigning effective...
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Bassist Chris Morrissey effortlessly straddles the worlds of jazz and indie pop
Bassist Chris Morrissey is hardly alone in living a kind of musical double life, earning his wage with indie rock and pop bands (Ben Kweller, Sara Bareilles, and Andrew Bird, among others, including...
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Sidetrack bans Stoli, and other food news bites
• Sidetrack has banned Stolichnaya in protest of Russia's antigay laws. More bars have followed suit, says Chicagoist.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Rahm's highest of high praise for Richard J. Daley
"I believe Chicago is the most American of American cities, and Mayor Richard J. Daley is the most American of big city mayors," the most Wilmette of Chicago mayors said Wednesday night, at the opening...
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Chief Keef destroys rap (again)
Salty hip-hop heads have been complaining about the declining quality of lyricism in rap music from just about the minute someone wrote something more complex than "Rapper's Delight," but over the...
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Zoom in: Rosemont
The Donald E. Stephens Museum of Hummels in Rosemont houses over 4,000 miniature ceramic sculptures. by Aimee Levitt Even though he's been dead for six years, Donald E. Stephens remains the Dear...
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