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A local cycling apparel maven embraces the weirdness
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Attitude is such an important element of style, and Aleia has a great one. Her smile...
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In never-ending wars, the U.S. is on a losing streak
Veterans Day, originally known as Armistice Day, commemorates the end of World War I in 1918. Germany lost, a resolution it was hard for Germans to get their minds around, as the guns that fell silent...
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A U. of C. scientist's robotics are helping with that cool comet mission
Tomorrow, the European Space Agency will attempt to land on a comet with the hopes of getting insight into the evolution of the solar system. One of the scientists behind the operation is the...
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What we learned at the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival
Here are the nuggets wisdom and trivia we gleaned from the Chicago Humanities Festival. by Reader staff Never write for free. As a five-year-old child in Russia, Gary Shteyngart was paid in cheese...
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Our guide to the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
Eyeworks Festival of Animation presents two programs of mind-blowing imagery. by Ben Sachs According to curators Lili Carré and Alexander Stewart, the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation...
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Burroughs lays bare the notorious author of Naked Lunch
This 1983 documentary gets Burroughs right between the eyes. by J.R. Jones Out of circulation for decades, Howard Brookner's documentary Burroughs (1983) is the most intimate and revealing screen...
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Shame That Tune celebrates its golden episode
Shame That Tune's 50th episode, Quinn Tsan's debut EP, and Bike Cops' new tape by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil Back in 2010, when Gossip Wolf first covered Shame That Tune—which calls itself "America's...
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Gig poster of the week: He gazes into the distance, a Reverse V strapped to...
ARTIST: Jason CastilloSHOW: Rearden Roark, Rakunk, and Dirty Dirty Dollars at Martyrs' on Fri 11/7MORE INFO:castilloillustraton.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about the European Space Agency, Bandcamp, and Stephen Glass?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That—surprise!—the United States and China reached a significant agreement on climate change after quiet...
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See New York band Crying put a new spin on chiptune at Bottom Lounge
On Saturday Bottom Lounge showcases a great array of groups who play fourth-wave emo, pop-punk, and, um, chiptune. Well, Crying is the only band on the bill that plays chiptune—the New York state...
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The Michelin Guide is still your dad (and more food news)
So first off: congratulations to the recipients of the two well-deserved new stars on the 2015 Michelin list for Chicago. Grace, which has both food and service that truly live up to the top level of...
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The first step to toppling a mayor: Getting on the ballot
The first step to toppling a mayor: getting on the ballot by Ben Joravsky On election night, I sat in a bar with a few of my lefty friends and somberly watched as one Republican after another rolled...
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'Reform' ain't right for Chicago, and maybe Derrick Rose isn't either
Talking back to the morning papers . . . Eric Zorn is right about the problem, wrong about the solution.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Contemporary dance group Khecari's radical Oubliette imprisons itself
Jonathan Meye's unsettling work is weakened by a pileup of metaphors. by Jena Cutie The Nature Play Center at Indian Boundary Park is transformed at night: in the half light the three tiny houses, the...
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BBU member MC Epic shows a flair for unordinary raps on his solo debut
Local hip-hop outfit BBU set a personal high with its second mixtape, 2012's bell hooks, so it was sad to see the group call it quits before that year came to a close. Fortunately it was more of a...
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Chicago's voters deserve the Bears
At the risk of sounding cruel and sadistic, I must confess I've been getting a perverse charge watching Bears fans desperately search for words to adequately express their rage over Sunday's 55-14...
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Wrigleyville diner Rice 'n Bread is putting an American spin on Korean...
Remember Hamburger King? The Wrigleyville greasy spoon that was Korean owned but more Japanese in spirit?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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I'm poly and happy—do I have to come out?
Dan Savage on closeted poly folks, exes and open relationships, and a threeway-or the-highway fiance. by Dan Savage QI consider myself one of the lucky ones: happily married for decades, with a...
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DJ Rashad is gone, but his influence on footwork lives on
The Chicago producer died before the music he helped define could break out, but he's still inspiring his Teklife crew—which is releasing a compilation to benefit his young son. by Leor Galil Chicago...
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Friends of the Parks files suit to stop the Lucas Museum
Friends of the Parks says it will make good today on its threat to go to court to stop the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art from building on a lakefront site owned by the Chicago Park District. …[ Read...
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