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12 O'Clock Track: The gravel and brawn of Castles'"Palm Reader"
Yes, I listen to any and everything released by Kurt Ballou's GodCity Studio. I have my reasons: the first and foremost being that the Converge guitarist rarely releases an album that isn't thick and...
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Sing's Noodle House, starring ace noodle puller Liu Chang Ming
After Tony Hu, is there a more recognizable Chinatown celebrity than Liu Chang Ming? You may not know his name, but if you've strolled past Hing Kee in the mall over the last few years, you've probably...
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Lessons of random double features
Last Tuesday I went to Doc Films for back-to-back screenings of Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm (1930) and Olivier Assayas's Clean (2004), two films with very little in common. It was the sort of double...
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Money makes the art world go round
In Capital Culture, historian Neil Harris looks at a rich east-coast scion who remade the museum experience. by Hannah Gold In a 1985 review of a National Gallery of Art exhibit on ancestral British...
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Gig poster of the week: Collecting toys with Notes + Bolts
ARTIST: Ryan DugganSHOW: Notes + Bolts Holiday Toy Drive with Sister Crystals, the Peekaboos, Coffin Ships, and the Iceberg at Empty Bottle on 12/10MORE INFO:ryanduggan.com[ Subscribe to the comments...
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Mario Batali wants you to have your "holy jeez!" moment
Mario Batali may be the most celebrated Italian restaurant chef in America at the moment. He's unquestionably the most recognizable—imposingly big, bookended by orange hair at one end and his trademark...
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Did you read about the pension bill, R. Kelly, and A.J. Pierzynski?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the pension bill passed by the General Assembly yesterday was "a bipartisan victory for the people of...
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12 O'Clock Track: Gut-punching keyboard explorations from the Italian duo...
Three decades after Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock recorded some of their most exploratory electric work in the early 70s, contemporary musicians are still untangling its mysteries. Satelliti—a duo...
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Christmas onstage: Let us count the ways
Our critics' takes on a handful of holiday play by Tony Adler, Jena Cutie, Keith Griffith, Justin Hayford, Jack Helbig, Marissa Oberlander and Zac Thompson There was a time in living memory when...
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This week in Claire Denis: A correspondence with Melika Bass and Lori Felker...
Tomorrow night at 6 PM, the Gene Siskel Film Center concludes its monthlong Claire Denis retrospective with the French director's most challenging work, The Intruder (2004). I consider it one of the...
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A Houston Rap mix's Royal Flush
This week's B Side cover story is about Houston Rap (Sinecure), a new photo book on the hip-hop scene in the biggest city in the state where everything is bigger. It's a dense book packed with quotes...
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A vote against bacon-infused bourbon
The first time I made bacon-infused bourbon, it was absolutely awful—one of the worst things I've ever tasted, no exaggeration. I'd come across a recipe for it in The New Old Bar, a cocktail recipe...
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Howe Gelb only looks forward as his career nears its third decade
Next month Fire Records is releasing Little Sand Box, a sprawling eight-CD box set collecting the solo output of Giant Sand visionary Howe Gelb—six commercially issued albums, a live effort, and a...
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Mayor Rahm gets ready to beat up some geezers
The state's lawmakers had passed a pension bill for all of about ten minutes—socking it to little old retirees from Cairo to Waukegan—when Mayor Emanuel issued a statement to the press. "The pension...
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The first Chicago Serbian Film Fest kicks off this Friday
Like the MOSTRA Brazilian Film Series, the Chicago Serbian Film Fest, which takes place this Friday through Sunday at the Muvico Theatres in Rosemont, is less of a cinematic event than a lesson in...
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Who is the Krampus?
The other day I ran into Monte Beauchamp on the street. "Do you know about Krampus?" he asked.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Heroin, LLC
The open-air drug market on the west side thrives in the same way that legal businesses do. by Mick Dumke Antonio Johnson called Ray Longstreet to talk business. Longstreet, a veteran leader of the...
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Secret breast left untold
Dan on indiscretions actual and theoretical by Dan Savage QI'm a bi woman in my mid-20s in a great monogamish relationship with my straight boyfriend. We occasionally invite other women into our sex...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 12/5: Make, Medora, and Anne La Berge
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Blackbird almost wasn't Blackbird, Tasting Table's Open Market, and more
If you haven't read it, you're the last one in Chicago . . . it being Chandra Ram's epic account of the opening and early days of arguably our most influential modern restaurant, Blackbird, at Plate...
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