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This week's Chicagoan: Joshua Dumas, composer
Joshua Dumas, composer: "There are a lot of composers who can hear stuff in their mind's ear, but I'm not one of them." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 7/13: George Wendt, West Fest, and Tomato Blast
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I Saw You, Illustrated: A shared moment between a theatergoer and a theater...
You had just finished the play performance and were taking a bow with your costars. I was sitting front row on the north section of the theater, shoulder-length chestnut hair, glasses, and wearing a...
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Weekly Top Five: The best 70mm films
The Music Box's highly successful 70mm Film Festival is back for a second edition, and a few titles from last year's fest have returned for your viewing pleasure, including Paul Thomas Anderson's The...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 7/14: Bastille Day, Burgers and Beer 5K, and Seun Kuti
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Best shows to see: Seun Kuti, OOIOO, Fresh & Onlys
The 90s are back! Veruca Salt plays on Monday, and that's something to get excited for.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award winner Patty Templeton on her debut...
Patty Templeton won the first-ever Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award in 2010. She's just published her first novel, There Is No Lovely End, and will read from the book on Wednesday, July 16, 7...
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Down-home cookin' with Nate Bargatze
Stand-up comic Nate Bargatze unearths his southern roots and spins yarns about growing up with a professional clown. by Brianna Wellen When he's given a second to ramble about Vanderbilt football,...
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Did you read about Rikers Island, the Lucas Museum, and J.K. Rowling?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the city of Chicago has agreed to allow the public to see records of alleged police misconduct—the result of...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Menino Horrível,' hushed pop from Amabis
We've often been told in these heady days of the Internet that we don't need radio stations, record labels, or, cough cough, music critics, because listeners have easy access to music and no longer...
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Saul Steinberg: Art-world outcast?
If you can find the Art Institute's Saul Steinberg exhibit, you're in for a treat. by Noah Berlatsky Saul Steinberg was behind one of the most famous magazine covers ever: the March 29, 1976, issue of...
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I'm being haunted by the ghost of Wilson Mizner!
Once every week or two I attend a preview screening for work at the Showplace ICON in the South Loop. To make myself feel better about having to go there, I try to stop at the Harold Washington Library...
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First visit: Evanston's Smylie Brothers Brewing Co.
On June 24, former chef and commodities broker Mike Smylie and his four younger brothers opened Smylie Brothers Brewing Co. at 1615 Oak Avenue in Evanston. (Why is it so hard not to type "Slymie"?…[...
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Hungary for you: Going for it at the Gulyas Festival
Where did the Hungarians go? They were part of the Eastern European (or central European, as it was called before the Cold War) population of Chicago in the early 20th century, etymologically half of...
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Tacos unmastered at Si Fu Chino Latino Kitchen
Between the Jerk Taco Man and the Colombian hot dog, last week was a feast of inspiring culinary collisions, so I was hoping keep it up at Roscoe Village's Si Fu Chino Latino, an Asian-Mexican taqueria...
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Saturday at Pitchfork Music Festival 2014: Previews of all bands playing,...
Previews of all bands playing, along with all the afterparites, on Saturday of the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival by Reader staff Artists' names are in the color of the stage they're appearing on. See...
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Friday at Pitchfork Music Festival 2014: Previews of all bands playing, plus...
Previews of all bands playing, along with all the afterparties, on Friday of the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival by Reader staff Artists' names are in the color of the stage they're appearing on. See...
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The Reader's guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival 2014
The Reader's guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival 2014: Previews, itineraries, aftershows, and more The Pitchfork Music Festival is in its ninth year—tenth if you count the 2005 Intonation Music...
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Sunday at Pitchfork Music Festival 2014: Previews of all bands playing, plus...
Previews of all bands playing, along with all the afterparties, on Sunday of the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival by Reader staff Artists' names are in the color of the stage they're appearing on. See...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 7/15: 'Sharp, Clear Pictures,' Afro-Latin@ Diaspora, and...
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