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Is Brobagel the New York bagel place the city has been waiting for?
In order for a bagel to be truly a bagel, as opposed to a round dinner roll with a hole in the middle, it needs to be boiled before it's baked. When you do this, the bagel develops a tough, shiny crust...
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Electronic producer and former Chicagoan Mister Lies returns to town Sunday
Nearly two years ago electronic producer Nick Zanca released his debut full-length as Mister Lies, the lovely Mowgli; since then the Connecticut native left Columbia College and moved back east to...
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Work that selfie
Style like this must be photographed from every angle at all times! Eli and Destiny bring luxurious textures and a sophisticated color palette to their casual stroll, creating a versatile look that...
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Chicago's own One World Trade Center is all but forgotten
More than 13 years after terrorist attacks destroyed New York City's twin towers, One World Trade Center opened for business on November 3. The 104-story building, America's tallest, welcomed its first...
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My five favorite Jean Renoir films
This weekend the Gene Siskel Film Center continued its new series, titled "Great War/Grande Guerre: World War I on Film," with a screening of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, the French classic of poetic...
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Wisconsin vs. meat, (part one): The end of Bolzano
A Chicagoan wandering the Dane County Farmers' Market, the vast farmers' market that wraps around all four sides of the state capitol in Madison on Wednesdays and Saturdays, could be forgiven for...
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Nonprofits bring the arts into Chicago's cash-strapped public schools
“Let me see your best crispy hands,” Nicole Scatchell shouts as she dramatically extends her fingers in front of her body. Thirty small hands instantly shoot out, frantically waving and wiggling, each...
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Chicken Shop might serve the best roast chicken in Chicago
I'm not sure if it's absolutely true that Chicken Shop at Soho House has the best roast chicken in Chicago. The world is, after all, full of roast chickens, not just at restaurants and in the...
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Did you read about Grant Park, Next Theatre, and Northwestern University...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About new forms of housing discrimination designed to help businesses profit off of communities of color?…[ Read...
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My Brightest Diamond's 'Lover Killer,' a churning dose of art-pop
On the latest album from My Brightest Diamond, This is My Hand (Asthmatic Kitty), the group's charismatic, mysterious leader Shara Worden injects her brand of art-pop with a serious rhythmic bump,...
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Will Republicans confirm a warbler?
Conservative confusion over President Obama's nominee as attorney general, Loretta Lynch, has been straightened out, and Republicans vow that she faces a rough road to confirmation by the Senate. "It's...
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Is Interstellar better when you're stoned?
In a watershed moment for American film criticism, Andrew Sarris conceded in the Village Voice that he may have been off base in his negative assessment of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); he made a point...
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Is peri peri chicken the next battle in the poultry wars?
There's a new chicken joint in Skokie that specializes in Portuguese-style peri peri chicken. Peri peri—or pili pili or piri piri—refers to the red African bird's eye chile peppers the chicken is...
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Peek inside the fantastical Ukrainian Village home and studio of artists...
Entering the Ukrainian Village home of artists Jared and Jessica Joslin is like teetering on the edge of a dream—a place where creatures have skeletons fashioned from Victorian chandeliers, wings...
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Bee and PuppyCat is as adorable and bizarre as ever
I was never one for animation. Even as a child I got much more excited when my parents would let me stay up late to watch ER than I was by the prospect of Saturday morning cartoons.…[ Read more ][...
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Peer through the peculiar lens of photographer Aaron Siskind
Major American photographer Aaron Siskind gets his first retrospective in book form. by Aimee Levitt When Aaron Siskind arrived in Chicago in 1951 to teach photography at the Institute of Design...
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Wisconsin vs. meat (part two): The end of Black Earth Meats
Yesterday's story was about a Wisconsin state agency's alleged unfair treatment of artisanal meat producer Bolzano Artisan Meats. The story of Black Earth Meats isn't about that kind of internecine...
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Bears writers get to kick ass
I envy sportswriters. They get to bang away.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Bill Cosby, Olive Garden, and Bob Dylan?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• The Washington Post's in-depth look at the meaning and use of a racial slur?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Listen to the Pretenders' rust-belt-disco jam 'My City Was Gone'
A couple months ago I was driving around and listening to the Sirius XM station 1st Wave when a song came on that I hadn't heard before: the Pretenders'"My City Was Gone." The track had a drum sound...
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