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Reader's Agenda Sat 8/24: Free dance at Pritzker, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, and...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The Chicago Dancing Festival closes out several days of performances today with a show at Pritzker Pavillion.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 8/26: "I Have a Dream," Rhythms of China, and an ancient...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is this Wednesday, and it has everyone, including us, reflecting.…[...
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March winds—the Chicago press in 1963
The Sunday Tribune looked back 50 years to the March on Washington and was honest about its nervous Nellie coverage. Much of what it had had to say prior to the march "concentrated on fears the...
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Did you read about ESPN, Novak Djokovic, and American eating habits?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That NSA officers "on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love...
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12 O'Clock Track: The handclap-heavy glam of Giuda's "Roll On"
I've been having tinges of regret these last couple of days for not swinging by the Liar's Club on Friday to catch the glam garage of Rome's Giuda. The Italian five-piece's debut, Racey Roller, was...
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Best shows to see: Rhythms of China, White Hills, Matthew De Gennaro, The-Drum
Doubtless you're still trying to process the significance of the 'N Sync comeback or the Replacements reunion or the Miley Cyrus . . . whatever that was, but Soundboard is gonna try to distract you...
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Building a better Panozzo's Italian Market
Panozzo's Italian Market is in the midst of a rehab and redecoration job that will make the South Loop Italian deli into more of an actual restaurant. Which marks the end of a long, roundabout journey...
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This week's Chicagoan: Chris McBrien, educational performer
This week’s Chicagoan is Chris McBrien, educational performer by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "The majority of my work is presenting educational...
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How stop and frisk works in Chicago
About quarter to eight on the evening of May 21, 2011, two Chicago police officers noticed a young black man they deemed suspicious near the corner of Iowa and Pulaski. The problem, as they saw it, was...
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Destihl brings its beers upstate to Chicago—including the medal-winning...
Destihl was founded in 2007 in downstate Normal, just 130 miles away along I-55, but until last week the brewery had only poured its beers in Chicago at festivals—and at the second South of 80 tap...
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Big chicken at Smalls Smoke Shack
"If it were easy everybody would be doing it" is an axiom that doesn't seem to apply to making barbecue. It isn't easy, and yet Chicago has been flooded with so much sorrily smoked meat over the last...
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Those movies that say "Thank you, come again"
My favorite thing about The World's End, which opened in wide release on Friday, is how it seems to be engineered for multiple viewings. A little over halfway into the film, I realized that the name of...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 8/27: Rush Hour Concert Series, musical printmaking, and...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Catch the last Rush Hour Concert of the summer at St. James Cathedral today, where the Spektral Quartet performs a concerto by Ernest...
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Doughnuts come to Longman & Eagle, Inc.
Unleash the hysteria: one of Chicago's favorite food fads has come to, well, one of Chicago's favorite food fads. No, not Parson's Chicken, Fish & Cronuts, though you're close.…[ Read more ][...
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In Rotation: Janet Bean of Eleventh Dream Day on Nick Drake's mom
Janet Bean of Eleventh Dream Day on Nick Drake's mom, Jim Elkington of Horse's Ha on Bollywood Bloodbath, and more by Peter Margasak Peter Margasak, Reader staff writer Timo Andres, Home Stretch The...
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Did you read about B. Kliban, the University of Liberia, and the Yosemite...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• Cartoonist B. Kliban, rediscovered? —Tony Adler• About the world's cleverest silver thief and the retired...
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12 O'Clock Track: The dazed psych-hop of Martin $ky's "CritiCALI"
Chicago's new generation of hip-hop artists continues to draw on a wide range of influences. Here we have the new video for Martin $ky's "CritiCALI," a slippery bit of meditative psych-hop that borrows...
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Mayor Emanuel: a tough leader for a tough city, or just an a-hole?
Mayor Emanuel: a tough leader for a tough city, or just an a-hole? by Ben Joravsky During the 2011 mayoral campaign, I kept hearing a refrain from voters, especially relatively well-to-do...
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Will Catalyst leave home?
The Community Renewal Society—which describes itself as a "faith based organization that works with people and communities to address racism and poverty"—is completing a merger with the likeminded but...
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New blood at an old-school newspaper
The Reporter's new editor intends to carry the torch for long-form journalism while adapting to the digital age. by Michael Miner"What's your editorial staff?" I asked Susan Richardson, who on...
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