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Reader's Agenda Fri 8/1: Lollapalooza, Give Me 500, and Black Harvest Film...
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Presents of the Lords, and the rest of this week's screenings
Lord Thing, screening next Thursday at Gene Siskel Film Center as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival, is a 1970 documentary about the Chicago street gang the Conservative Vice Lords, whose...
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The Paper Machete tries out new talent
On a Saturday in late July, Christopher Piatt, a bald gentlemen in a plain white T-shirt and a pair of sparkly studs, took the stage at the Green Mill to hilariously lip sync Betty Hutton's jazz...
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Did you read about the Golden Girls, fake money, and smokers?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That a court has overturned Uganda's antigay law? —Tony Adler• That the Golden Girls used to be part of a...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Buddy' is nostalgic emo-pop-punk from All Dogs
All Dogs from Columbus, Ohio are playing at Township tonight, and it's probably a show you should go and see. I caught the band over the winter and have been in love with their 90s-flavored,...
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Farewell, Serious Eats Chicago
Every food-media website deserves notice on its way out the door, so this is mine for Serious Eats Chicago, which technically still exists but has largely been absorbed back into its New York...
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Chicago's Wanees Zarour showcases his expansive vision of Arabic sounds
Palestinian musician and composer Wanees Zarour has been a fixture on Chicago's international music scene for more than a decade, adapting his fluency on the violin and the buzuq (a long-necked Arabic...
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Tomorrow night Bongripper will make metal haters Miserable
Gnarfest has been running as a counter-Lollapalooza blowout for four years now, during which time it was mostly underground. In previous years the punk festival went down at various DIY spots in town,...
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Amisha Patel's idea for keeping track of aldermen
I got a call the other day from Amisha Patel, one of the city's leading progressives, telling me the Indigo Girls were coming to town to throw a fundraiser for the anti-Rahm cause. At least that what I...
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Evanston's Boltwood is unpredictable—and that's not a complaint
Evanston's Boltwood is unpredictable—and that's not a complaint by Mike Sula Brian Huston couldn't have picked a better time to open Boltwood, a vigorously market-driven restaurant in the square and...
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Show us your . . . ‘nipples’
The TaTa Top subverts Chicago's law against women exposing their nips. by Gwynedd Stuart Exposing a nipple (or two) can be a costly prospect for women in Chicago, which, when you think about it, is...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 8/2: Salt-n-Pepa, Beer & BBQ Challenge, and Gnarfest
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Good for Derrick Rose
If there's a rift between Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls the Bulls won't wind up on the right side of it, so it's smart that they aren't trying to. Rose apparently refused to pimp for the Bulls in...
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Dense crowds and dubious security practices at the first day of Lollapalooza
Tal Rosenberg: The big news out of the first day of Lollapalooza was Blood Orange; unfortunately, troubling news about festival security overshadowed otherwise positive feedback about the Dev...
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This week's Chicagoan: Xavier Nuez, photographer
Photographer Xavier Nuez: "I've never been afraid of walking down a dark alley." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "I've never been afraid of walking...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 7/27: 'Picturing Logan Square,' From Good Stock, and...
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Saturday at Lollapalooza: emotional guitar solos, sincerity with a sex doll,...
Even—or especially—after all the shoving and puking, the tank-topped (and tanked) bros and the cheek-exposing booty shorts, there's something undeniably extraordinary about sharing a moment with...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 8/4: Maps & Atlases, Fictilicious, and No Light No Lycra
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The Aviary's Charles Joly wins best bartender in the world
If you were wondering whether those weirdly conceptual drinks at the Aviary are really worth the asking price, well, the cocktail world has chimed in to say, "hell yeah." Charles Joly, the Aviary's...
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Film critic Kenneth Turan has more to say about himself than Boyhood
Kenneth Turan's task would have been easier had he liked Boyhood either more or less than he did. If in his view Richard Linklater's new movie was god-awful, he could have rolled up his sleeves and let...
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