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'I was following what the artists were doing'—An interview with Martha Lavey...
Here, in edited form, is part two of a conversation I had with Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Martha Lavey, apropos of the news that she'll be stepping down from her post in 2015. Part one deals...
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Did you read about Jeb Bush, Jian Ghomeshi, and positive thinking?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Jeb Bush is reportedly moving toward a run for president, though there are plenty of reasons why he...
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'Bladed Stance,' a luminescent meditation written by former Chicago composer...
This past summer Chicago lost one of its most distinctive and acclaimed composers when Marcos Balter—the Brazilian native who was previously the director of musical composition studies at Columbia...
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CHAOS Brew Club celebrates Learn to Homebrew Day
Regular readers may remember my column from July 2013, about CHAOS Brew Club's Summer Brew-BQ—the group's last party in its old home near Grand and Ogden. CHAOS has been operating out of a new, larger...
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A local start-up is tackling transgender unemployment
"Why do most people use the internet?" asks Angelica Ross as she begins a presentation on freelancing. Her audience, comprised of queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people interested in technology,...
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The South American variation on Superbad that was an unexpected highlight of...
In my posts about this year's Chicago International Film Festival, I failed to mention the Uruguayan drug comedy High Five, which played two Fridays ago at 4:20 PM. It was one of the more memorable...
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Fired host of WBEZ's Q defends his 'sexual practices'
Jian Ghomeshi, founder and host of the CBC's Q, which WBEZ airs four nights a week at 8 PM, was fired Sunday for reasons apparently related to his private life. The Toronto Star, reporting Ghomeshi's...
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Tunde Wey's Nigerian food road trip comes to Chicago
If you've traveled outside the prosperous west, you've met the kind of entrepreneur that emerging economies tend to produce—the cabdriver who's also a travel agent, a caterer, a handyman, a...
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Did you read about Ebola, crazy Neanderthal sex, and Jay Cutler?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Ebola policies made in panic can be counterproductive?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Slowdive's Thursday show is sold out, but you can still listen to the band's...
In his Soundboard capsule for Slowdive's sold-out show on Thursday night at the Vic, Kevin Warwick refers to the band's 1993 album Souvlaki as their masterpiece. He's right that it's the band's best...
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Tomorrow Never Knows announces its 2015 lineup
This January, Chicago's yearly midwinter music festival Tomorrow Never Knows will return to fill some of the city's more intimate venues with bands and concertgoers who aren't daunted by the freeze....
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Investment bankers rule at Rahm's City Hall
Mayor Emanuel replaces the outgoing treasurer with another executive from his friend's investment firm. by Ben Joravsky You'll have to forgive me for feeling a little paranoid these days, as I...
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Covering the rust belt for readers who don't like to think they're part of it
Would the rust belt benefit from a journal of its own—a medium chronicling its resurrection or continued decay?For the past year, it's had one in Belt, a website by Anne Trubek of Cleveland. Its focus,...
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The ear of the cat: Halloween lite (part two)
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.So in my previous Halloween post I was addressing that very pressing issue of being in a...
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Why the candidates for governor are suddenly interested in black voters
The latest twist in the increasingly strange, uglyrace for governor came over the weekend, when south-side minister Corey Brooks said he received death threats, and his church was burglarized, after he...
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Twin Peaks listen to ten mystery songs from 1994—the year three of them were...
Chicago garage-pop whiz kids Twin Peaks listen to ten mystery songs from 1994—the year three of them were born. by Leor Galil Chicago garage-pop whiz kids Twin Peaks have been gigging seriously for...
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Avant-garde horror and memories of the Chicago Eight coming soon from South...
"If there's a documentary about political activism from the 1970s that was shot on 16-millimeter, then chances are I'm going to show it," said programmer Michael W. Phillips at a South Side Projections...
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Bruce Rauner is a 'successful businessman' why exactly?
The race for governor took an interesting turn yesterday. Mark Brown of the Sun-Times published the most cogent and urgent argument I've seen yet for not voting for Bruce Rauner.…[ Read more ][...
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Dove's Luncheonette: Paul Kahan and company's Mexican diner fills a void in...
Dove's Luncheonette: Wicker Park hasn't had this much soul since the Busy Bee closed. by Mike Sula There is a beautiful framed sepia-toned photograph hanging in each of the restrooms at Dove's...
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This Titanic goes the way of its namesake
Without a star—the set—Griffin Theatre Company's modest version of the Broadway musical Titanic sinks. by Justin Hayford Peter Stone, who wrote the book for this 1997 Tony-winning musical, proclaims...
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