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Best shows to see: Come, Bitchin Bajas, Matt Ulery's Loom, Square Roots
Summer music festivals are like a box of chocolates: too many to choose from. This weekend is especially crowded, and not just because Taste of Chicago has everyone taking up a little more space than...
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The boys who made The Jungle Book sing
Planning to see The Jungle Book at the Goodman Theatre? There are a couple of obvious ways to make this visually dazzling production an even richer experience.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments...
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Did you read about Spider-Man, Jay-Z, and the Village People?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the Tribune Company will "spin off" its newspaper holdings? —Tony Adler• How police and community leaders...
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Working mothers (and fathers) in the New York Times
On Monday, the New York Times launched a periodic series about careers and families. "Balancing Act" promises to focus on how "working mothers from varied backgrounds" balance career and family...
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12 O'Clock Track: The bewitching bedroom-pop of Emily Reo's "Happy Birthday"
It's been nearly a month since I stumbled upon a lovely and lackadaisical jam from Boston bedroom-pop musician Emily Reo called "Happy Birthday" and I'm still stuck on it all these weeks later. Reo...
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Kris Swanberg's Empire Builder: Ennui go to Montana!
In my recent post about tonight's "Joe & Kris Swanberg double feature" at Doc Films, I failed to grant more than a few words to the second half of the program, Kris Swanberg's Empire Builder. I...
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Taiwanese baseball collides with Taiwanese death metal
Not many people realize that Taiwan has a heavy metal scene, or that it has a professional baseball infrastructure. This makes a little sense when you consider that Wikipedia's list of Taiwanese metal...
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The first annual Rotted Tooth Fest
For the past few years Bitchpork has run the same weekend as Pitchfork, providing a gnarly alternative to the comparatively mainstream festival lineup. During its run the three-day megafest, hosted in...
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On Via, veteran rocker Thalia Zedek quietly turns up the intensity
In this week's paper I previewed Friday's performance by the reunited Boston band Come, who are playing a handful of U.S. shows in support of the deluxe reissue of their 1993 debut album Eleven: Eleven...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 7/12: Zombie Prom, The Sketchbook Project, and a reading...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:If you're ever lucky enough to come back to life as a zombie after you die, chances are you won’t have the good sense to do anything besides...
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Speedy Ortiz has your Saturday covered
Speedy Ortiz is a quartet from Northampton, Massachusetts, exploring a subspecies of alternative rock that has yet to get much traction in the ongoing 90s revival—namely the slightly skewed art-pop of...
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Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings
In this week's issue I revisit some of the Chicagoans who appeared in Haskell Wexler's 1969 political drama Medium Cool, and also take a look at Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love, with Steve...
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Co-Prosperity Sphere celebrates Chicago filmmaker and visual artist Tom...
Starting tonight and running through July 21, the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport will host a multimedia retrospective devoted to local hero Tom Palazzolo. The exhibit will include paintings,...
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Did you read about Sharknado, Toshi Seeger, and the D.C. city council?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About K.S.M.'s vacuum cleaner? —Steve Bogira• About whether the Trib spinoff ends Wrapports' dream of buying that...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Irene" is a dreamy preview of Twin Peaks' upcoming vinyl...
I'll bet you've at least heard of Twin Peaks by now. The superhyped, glammy young 'uns have been creating quite a stir around town lately, not only for their excellent ability to write a killer pop...
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It worked for Northwestern: Save Wrigley Field
At Thursday's meeting of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Cubs staffers were on hand to outfit supporters in the audience with buttons and T-shirts that used the same scare tactic employed by...
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Street View 108: Sharp in shorts
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest style seen in Chicago.Not too long ago men could zealously care for their appearance without being labeled...
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Laughing about Crimes Against Humanity with director Jerzy Rose
Screening this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Crimes Against Humanity was cowritten and directed by Jerzy Rose, a local experimental filmmaker who spent several years making shorts before turning...
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Theron Humphrey on Maddie on Things
The title Maddie on Things sounds like a philosophical inquiry, sort of like Lucretius's On the Nature of Things. But actually Maddie is a 45-pound coonhound with a preternaturally developed sense of...
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New jazz rarities from the tastemakers at Dusty Groove
Last December Wicker Park record shop Dusty Groove launched an arrangement with the reissue imprint Real Gone Music that allowed it to start releasing music, as it had between 2007-'09, when it brought...
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