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Reader's Agenda Sun 10/5: Taste Talk's All-Star Cookout, CHIRP Record Crawl,...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of David Fincher
This week, the first major movie of the fall, David Fincher's Gone Girl, hit multiplexes to more or less widespread acclaim. (For what it's worth, my boss J.R. Jones, America's most reliable film...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 10/6: 'Between the Buildings,''Ink, Paper, Politics,' and...
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Best shows to see: Don Giovanni, Suffocation, Steve Gunn
It's another busy week around town for live music, and there's a ton of stuff to see from all different corners of the musical world. Tonight, solo prog drummer Terry Bozzio will be shredding his...
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Did you read about the Great Chicago Fire Festival, Greg Maddux, and Twin Peaks?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That, for now, the Supreme Court has decided not to hear challenges to rulings allowing same-sex marriage?…[ Read...
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'(Until Then) I'll Suffer,' classic late-60s soul from Barbara Lynn
Since belatedly discovering Here Is Barbara Lynn, the sole Atlantic album by the titular Texas soul singer, half-a-dozen years ago, I've often wondered why she never became a major star (Light in the...
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School's not quite out for Al Jackson
Comedian Al Jackson spent time as a middle school teacher, but he's not done educating us all on the ways of the world. by Kevin Warwick It's debatable whether Al Jackson left his profession as a...
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Will Chicago reelect a mayor who’s nearly as unpopular as the Green Bay Packers?
I got a tip the other day from a secret source—call him Rocky—in Alderman Bob Fioretti’s mayoral campaign. He said they’d just commissioned a poll of Chicago voters and, as hard as this is to believe,...
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London bar rips off Nandini Khaund's pig's blood cocktail
It's been more than six months since Nandini Khaund, one of the founders of the app Craft Cocktail and blog craftcocktailrules.com, made a cocktail with pig's blood for the Reader's Cocktail Challenge....
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Previewing the normal Italian-American at Formento's
About the time three of us were munching on the house-made braunschweiger (pork liver) at Tete Charcuterie, we were talking about Formento's, the upcoming Italian-American throwback/tribute place...
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In praise of movies that fail spectacularly
On Saturday afternoon I went to the Siskel Center to catch Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969), screening as part of the eight-film series dedicated to director Nagisa Oshima. I've now seen Shinjuku Thief...
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Did anyone really see Art Everywhere US?
The Art Institute-backed campaign brought American masterpieces to billboards across the country this summer. But did anyone really see Art Everywhere US? by Annette Elliot It's August, and under the...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 10/7: Banks, 'Words or Music?,' and Girl Group Chicago
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Fans of house music and gothy synth-pop should check out Roman Flügel at...
The German record label Dial has been on my radar for a while now, having put out a distinctly sumptuous and elegant brand of house music that carries a melancholy and foreboding tinge. This year the...
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Did you read about wild bison, horror movies, and Dungeons & Dragons?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• How the American consumption of meat is linked to world hunger?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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Does life at 75 have meaning?
Last Wednesday's Tribune found columnist Mary Schmich remembering her mother's death. "She was stooped and attached to an oxygen machine, her fingers so gnarled she could barely hold a coffee cup much...
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Show us your . . . Catmobile
Show us your . . . Catmobile: animal trainer Samantha Martin discusses the Acro-Cats' tour-vehicle totem. by Gwynedd Stuart If you've ever doubted whether there are terrible people in the world, the...
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On the amazing effect of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier...
The new One Book, One Chicago selection, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, is still amazing after a dozen reads, writes Aimee Levitt. by Aimee Levitt One of the major plot points of The...
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Bob's Burgers returns and works it, girl
A delayed season premiere isn't always a bad thing: we're relatively deep into the fall premiere season and, so far, the offerings are so average that it's a huge relief to see Bob's Burgers return....
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A new light installation illuminates the Farnsworth House
Last Thursday evening, Mies van der Rohe's iconic Farnsworth House in Plano was bathed in computer-controlled lights in intricate sequences and patterns. A team of artists called Luftwerk—namely, Petra...
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