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Reader's Agenda Wed 8/21: Opera Underground Cruise, Mary Gauthier, and Two...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Do you feel that a regular river cruise lacks a certain amount of . . .…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Gig poster of the week: Soul Summit and Afro picks
ARTIST: Scott WilliamsSHOW: Soul Summit DJs with Frank Raines and King Otto at Double Door on Sat 8/17MORE INFO:scottwilliamsdesign.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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BBC2's The Fall delves into double lives
Late in the first season of BBC2 drama The Fall, a shaken-up pathologist describes to tough-as-nails lady detective Stella Gibson the often bewildering experience of examining murdered corpses by day...
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The Vivian Maier of celebrity cheeseburgers
It started with a window display on Milwaukee Avenue that might have been the work of a very young David Lynch: an amateurish, vaguely disturbing mannequin slumped against a window, and a hand-drawn...
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Did you read about Marian McPartland, Joyce Kilmer, and the many uses of urine?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• This sweet, if backhanded, tribute to Joyce Kilmer on the occasion of the centenary of his most famous poem,...
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A Twelfth Night for the tween set
The Hypocrites offer a Twelfth Night for the tween set. by Zac Thompson Twelfth Night was the last happy comedy William Shakespeare wrote—though clearly the man's mood had already started to darken....
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12 O'Clock Track: "First Field Path," a slice of bucolic guitar music by...
On September 17, Louisville guitarist Nathan Salsburg will release his second solo album, Hard For to Win and Can't Be Won (No Quarter). Until a couple of years ago I knew him only as the guy behind...
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The Northwest Chicago Film Society and the Patio Theater are both alive and well
For a little while there, back at the end of May, the fortunes of the Northwest Chicago Film Society were looking a little shaky. For one thing, it was locked out of the Portage Theater where the group...
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Education in Chicago: Millions for DePaul, bulldozers for Whittier Elementary
Driving home last weekend from another well-deserved and much-needed vacation, I got a little mixed up when people started texting me about Mayor Emanuel's early-morning bulldozers. I was hoping he'd...
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One powerful line in Giftz's Position of Power mixtape
I've had my eye on Giftz since he ensnared me last year with a tune he cut with Tree called "Nino"; the east side MC somersaults over Tree's wobbly, hook-heavy beat like an Olympic racer, doling out...
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All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green (part two)
Read part one of this conversation.Ben Sachs: How did you meet Joyce Payne, the striking nonactor who appears in Prince Avalanche?David Gordon Green: My [assistant director] Atilla [Salih Yucer] and...
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A first look at the cocktails of Analogue
Earlier this month, Violet Hour beverage director Robert Haynes worked his last shift at the venerable Wicker Park cocktail bar. Both he and manager Henry Prendergast had been there since the bar...
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A dream unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, most blacks here were living in poor, segregated neighborhoods. They still are. by Steve Bogira The 50th Anniversary of the March...
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Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for...
Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it's time for another movement. by Steve Bogira and Mick Dumke The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington A dream...
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A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon...
March on Washington anniversary: A new generation of activists fights for change, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin. by Mick Dumke The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Fifty years later,...
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Should parents Pamper a diaper swiper?
Dan on a budding diaper fetishist and a pretty unimpressive deformity. by Dan Savage QI recently discovered that my 14-year-old stepson, who lives with us full-time, has been stealing, wearing,...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 8/22: Coffee ceramic art, Festa Italiana, and #ShopFest
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Ten years ago the Lillstreet Art Center moved to Ravenswood.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Best shows to see: The Horse's Ha, Serengeti, Bat for Lashes, Negativland
Everyone's worried that Chicago's almost out of good weather. Soundboard's no meteorologist (too rough a science—we prefer climatology), but we can definitely say the city's not out of good live...
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Burke's Bacon Bar wants to rescue your next meeting
The work-through-lunch meeting is a double-edged sword. On the one hand: free lunch.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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