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The Fifth Star Awards: A great show, but where were the winners?
Chicago celebrated its first annual Fifth Star arts awards with a public event Wednesday night at Millennium Park that was a combination of weird and wonderful. First, the weird: The crowds weren't...
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Drug dealer gets 35 years in prison after judge says he 'very likely'...
U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow stressed Thursday that Jason Austin had not been tried for murder. Before a packed courtroom, she noted that Austin, 32, was standing before her in an orange prison...
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Key Ingredient: Kai Zan's Vizconde twins make a bento box with pig heart
Challenged to create a dish with pig heart, Carlo and Melvin Vizconde of Kai Zan prepare it three ways in a bento box. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 9/19: Reeling Film Festival, Funny Ha-Ha, and Beak
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Romania mania, revealing Reeling, and the rest of this week's careening...
Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival opens Friday at Music Box with the romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl; check out our sidebar for reviews of eight features screening this week. That...
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'Think of the Children' tells the history of censorship in Chicago through...
This Sunday marks the start of Banned Books Week, an event usually confined to schools and libraries where celebrants curse the philistines who have had the temerity to ban Judy Blume and Harry Potter....
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the name-dropper
Obama's Name Dropped from Planned CPS High School—headline yesterday in DNAinfo Chicago***September 18, 2014: Mayor Emanuel announced today that the city will honor President Barack Obama by not naming...
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Did you read about Scotland, a gay-friendly mosque in Africa, and SCOTUS?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Scotland is sticking with Great Britain?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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'Dodging Invisible Rays' is a Guided by Voices classic in honor of their...
Writing this 12 O'Clock Track post is almost like writing a eulogy for an old friend. Yesterday it was announced that Ohio lo-fi indie-rock legends Guided by Voices had called it quits.…[ Read more ][...
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The Red Lion Grill: A British-style pub, minus the beer
Things don’t seem to have gone well for Logan Square's Red Lion Grill—originally to be named the Red Lion Pub and Grill—in its first few months. First it turned out that the Red Lion Pub in Lincoln...
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He's back: Weasel Walter plays Chicago/RIP Kenny Wheeler
Rockford native Weasel Walter has always had an uncomfortable relationship with the free jazz that first propelled him onto local stages with the earliest version of his band the Flying Luttenbachers,...
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The latest big thing from Mayor Rahm: Janitors without mops!
In his three years in office, Mayor Emanuel has tried such curious experiments in education as school libraries without librarians and school bathrooms without toilet paper. Now he's got a new one:...
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One Bite: The meaty carne en su jugo at Taqueria Los Gallos #2
Friend of the Food Chain Rob Lopata has probably forgotten more bowls of carne en su jugo than I'll ever eat. Fortunately his 2006 citywide survey of 16 of the meaty bowls remains viable, at least in...
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There's a raging inferno at River Roast
Fire-roasted hunks of meat are the centerpiece at Tony Mantuano and John Hogan's River Roast, but stick with the smaller plates if you don't want to get burned. by Mike Sula Many new restaurants, it...
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A few more things to see at Expo Chicago
This is the first thing I saw when I walked into Expo Chicago last night:"That's the story of my life," I told the gallery owner, a slim man with artistic glasses. (Many people at Expo have artistic...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 9/20: the Breeders, the Chicago Wandelweiser Festival,...
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Stret View 217: Sheer elegance
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Alyssa models how smart girls show skin: sheer! And it works for all sizes—this type of...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 9/21: Aahh! Fest, Design Harvest, and Wand
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Jerry Lewis
As part of his series "The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies from the U.S.," former Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum presents a screening of Jerry Lewis's The Ladies Man. Obviously, a survey of...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 9/22: Blackhawks Training Camp, Louder Than a Mom, and...
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