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Best shows to see: the Cairo Gang, Minsk, Implodes, Taste of Chicago
Getting straight down to business with this one, because it's Monday and that's what we all should be doing. Unless you're Andy Murray.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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12 O'Clock Track: The crackling, noisy beats of Food for Animals'"Bulk Gummies"
Food for Animals doesn't much care for conventional hip-hop. Producer Ricky Rabbit (Nick Rivetti) carves out beats from glitchy noise and crackling feedback—most often placing the group well outside...
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Off the ground in Bowmanville
Liz and Alex Gabbard allow us to climb into and poke around their urban tree house in Bowmanville. by Andrea Bauer When Alex Gabbard turned nine years old in 2003, his mother, Liz, had a trick up her...
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Summer session time: New Belgium's Rolle Bolle
New Belgium Brewing's new summer seasonal, Rolle Bolle, has been around since April (and will continue shipping through September), but this past weekend was the first time it got hot enough for me to...
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Electronic-noise outfit Bad News is good news
After a decade and a half of putting up with being a countercultural punchline, industrial music's found itself unexpectedly back in fashion in 2013, thanks not only to the legions of Tumblr users...
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Freddie Gibbs mans the ramparts for gangsta rap
Gangsta rap is in decline on the charts, but Freddie Gibbs could keep it alive single-handedly. by Miles Raymer The pop charts have been a dangerous place for much of the past two decades. When...
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New menu, new seating arrangement at Elizabeth restaurant
When Elizabeth restaurant opened last September, it offered three fixed-price menus of ten to 20-odd courses, served at communal tables. Chef Iliana Regan had done something similar at an underground...
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Dear Paradise: Love
Though I've seen you three times in the last nine months, I think I'm just starting to understand what you're all about. I've tried toarticulate it on the few occasions when you came to Chicago, but I...
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"That felt wrong": Mary Zimmerman on The Jungle Book
Blame the holiday crunch. Questions I submitted for director and playwright Mary Zimmerman before writing this week's column didn't make their way to her—and her responses didn't get to me—until after...
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Stick with tradition at J. Rocco
Pick a meatball, any meatball (but probably not the shrimp kind) at J. Rocco. by Gwynedd Stuart There's a reason you've never had a shrimp meatball. To a great extent, shrimp's appeal is its texture,...
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Taste of Chicago keeps the weight off in 2013
Taste of Chicago's slimmed-down five-day lineup includes Robin Thicke, Jill Scott, and Robert Plant. by Luca Cimarusti Taste of Chicago hits Grant Park this week, and as usual it's got more to offer...
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Yin and yang at West Fest 2013
The postrock of Tortoise and the garage trash of the Oblivians are the yin and yang of this year's West Fest. by Luca Cimarusti Last year West Fest attracted an estimated 60,000 people, and this...
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It's raining men!
Nomi's "A Few Great Men" is one great evening. by Laura Molzahn Men who dance are in short supply. So to scare up five male choreographers for a single performance is a feat.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 7/9: Adjust Your Tracking, Lamp, and art beyond binary
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The VHS tape seems doomed to the same fate as its former rival, the Betamax, but it still has a few devotees—some of whom appear in the...
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What about a military coup in the House of Representatives?
When David Brooks wrote the other day to defend the military coup in Egypt, something about his diagnosis of the deposed government of Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood sounded familiar. "When...
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Did you read about Wimbledon, The Book of Mormon, and The Wire?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That a quarter of people in a recent international survey reported bribing a public official in the last year?...
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Video premiere: Secret Colours'"Blackbird (Only One)"
Back in the spring local psych revivalists Secret Colours self-released a new album, Peach, that continued their ongoing exploration of the kind of fuzzed-out, head-trippy sonic spaces that have been...
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12 O'Clock Track: Chippy Nonstop's hyphy single "Pimpin
It's entirely possible that you've never heard of Chippy Nonstop unless you lurk certain parts of the Internet where the weirder fringes of hip-hop, dance music, and Tumblr culture overlap, but within...
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Climate change in Chicago baseball
If not for a little bad luck—it stopped raining—the White Sox wouldn't have lost to the Cubs again last night. The game was a makeup of a May 28th contest.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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As schools starve, Mayor Emanuel finds $5 million for hot dogs
As schools starve, Mayor Emanuel delivers a $5 million subsidy to Vienna Beef. by Ben Joravsky On June 11 Mayor Emanuel officially recommended giving about $5 million to Vienna Beef to move its hot...
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