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The audacity of Michael Sheerin's Cicchetti
Former Blackbird chef Michael Sheerin is taking Venetian food somewhere new. by Mike Sula In the early 60s the ailing Italian countess Amalia Mani Mocenigo was ordered by her doctor to adopt a diet we...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 2/7: Love Is Love, Thalia Zedek, and an abundance of auto...
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The Evil Dead, Nightjohn and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online...
Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel accomplished.…[...
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Me, Her, you, and the rest of this week's screenings
In this week's issue I give two stars to one of the best-reviewed movies of 2013, Spike Jonze's Her. We've also got recommended reviews of: Gloria, a comedy from Chile about a middle-aged woman...
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Alain Tanner's La Salamandre: The most welcome movie reference of the week
Of the numerous films referenced in Sébastien Betbeder's 2 Autumns, 3 Winters (which I discussed a few days ago), La Salamandre (1971) might be the least familiar to contemporary U.S. audiences. Yet...
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Did you read about the cold weather, e-cigarettes, and Kit Kats?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That this actually is the coldest winter in 30 years (thus confirming the legitimacy of all of our complaining)?...
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12 O'Clock Track: Warm Soda's "When Your Eyes Meet Mine" is pretty power pop...
A couple of years ago Oakland-based glammy-garage rock band Bare Wires called it a day, and front man Matthew Melton immediately started up Warm Soda, whose second record, Young Reckless Hearts, is due...
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Roses are red, preorders are due for Valentine's Day
We food writers never feel so loved as when our inboxes are full of Valentine's Day pitches from PR people. We have lots of events for Valentine's Day, and a few against it; one of them will be just...
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Tim Daisy and Mikolaj Trzaska hit the road
Tonight Chicago jazz and improvised-music fixture Tim Daisy launches a short midwestern and southern tour with the fiery Polish reedist Mikolaj Trzaska, a regular collaborator in recent years. They...
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What ever happened to the far right?
Channel surfing the other night, I came across a movie I'd never heard of—a 1999 thriller called Arlington Road. It had an A-list cast—Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack—and something to say, and...
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Moore v. Waguespack on Rahm!
I was watching reruns of The Sopranos last night, so I missed WTTW's great debate on city finances when it first aired. In particular, I was watching the episode where Tony has his daughter's former...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 2/8: Cider Summit, Pancakes & Booze, and "To Perform, To...
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Street View 164: Owning cool
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Fashion journalist Mark Holgate quipped, "France may have chic, but America owns cool"....
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Convicted former alderman Ike Carothers explains why he deserves another...
Isaac Carothers argues that there are good reasons he should be elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners. First and foremost, he says, he's spent his whole career serving the public.…[ Read...
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The facts in the case of Silence Once Begun
In Jesse Ball's tangled fourth novel, Silence Once Begun, a man confesses to a string of murders he didn't commit. by Hannah Gold Silence Once Begun, Chicagoan Jesse Ball's fourth novel, is a great...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 2/9: Celluloid Therapy: The Diary Films of Anne Charlotte...
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I Saw You, illustrated: Heading downtown from ORD
You: Strikingly handsome, broad shoulders, neon yellow or green ear buds, a bit unprepared for the weather! Equipped with a passport and euros so putting two & two together: you were just coming...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Philip Seymour Hoffman
For a certain generation of moviegoers, Philip Seymour Hoffman was considered one of Hollywood's great actors, known for bringing his towering presence to the smallest of roles. His sudden passing...
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In Rotation: Jake Austen of Roctober on a sitar cover of the Banana Splits
Current musical obsessions of Roctober's Jake Austen and WHPK's Mario Smith by Philip Montoro Philip Montoro, Reader music editor Jute Gyte, Discontinuities Adam Kalmbach, aka one-man Missouri...
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A collection of Ghanaian salon advertisements on display—in a salon
In "Sportin' Waves," there's a hair's breadth of difference between art and advertisement. by Noah Berlatsky In Gwyneth Jones's sci-fi novel Phoenix Cafe, set in a distant future, the protagonists...
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