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Reader's Agenda Sun 3/23: Chicago Fire's home opener, Jon Langford, and Bike Day
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I Saw You, illustrated: At the United Center
You took a selfie during first period intermission and I accidentally photo bombed you. You had on jersey #33 with the name Cross on back and were about eight rows behind the goal.…[ Read more ][...
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Weekly Top Five: Films directed by actors
In this week's paper, J.R. Jones recommends the new comedy Bad Words, the directorial debut of actor Jason Bateman (Arrested Development, Horrible Bosses). Of the film, Jones writes, "[I]t's not much...
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In Rotation: Cave's Cooper Crain on a mind-blowing Chilean DIY label
Current musical obsessions of Cave's Cooper Crain and Scott McGaughey of Chandeliers by Peter Margasak Peter Margasak, Reader staff writer Various artists, Jazz Gems From Gennett-Champion One of the...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 3/24: Love and Understanding, the Lifeline Storytelling...
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Did you read about the World Cup, Back to the Future, and Gwar?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the quest to provide scientific proof that bisexuality exists? (Featuring Northwestern's very own Michael...
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12 O'Clock Track: Dub Thompson's jammy, out-there "Dograces"
At the heart of Dub Thompson—the Agoura Hills-based jam/slacker indie-rock band—are Matt Pulos and Evan Laffer, a pair of friends who met in high school and have been playing together ever since...
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First look at dishes from Randolph Street's Tete Charcuterie
Many of the restaurants that have popped up in the Randolph Street meatpacking district seek to create a little oasis of glamour in the midst of food-industry grittiness. Tete Charcuterie wants you to...
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Best shows to see: Children of Bodom, the Internet, Susanna
There are a handful of interesting shows to catch at the beginning of this week, so if you weren't able to get tickets to the now sold-out Future Islands show, there are still some great events to...
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Cahoots announces itself as a brewery to watch with No S'more Imperial Stout
Whenever I get surprised by a brand-new brewery—which doesn't happen too often, now that I've encountered so many—I'm especially grateful to have a platform from which to alert my fellow nerds that...
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Unfriendly confines: Did racial discrimination start the Cubs' slide?
P.K. Wrigley spurned black players at a pivotal time—did his actions start the Cubs' slide? by Steve Bogira"It is frequently noted that Wrigley Field is lovelier than the baseball often played on the...
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Pretty Butterflies reminds you not to judge a festival film by its title
At nearly every international film festival in Chicago, one inevitably finds titles that recall adolescents' first attempts at poetry. These films reference seasons, emotions, and plants (and some...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 3/25: James Adomian, the Internet, and "Just Yell"
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The life of Peggy Shinner, as told by her body
Peggy Shinner's new collection of essays on the body catalogs a lifetime of memories and obsessions. by Aimee Levitt Peggy Shinner is, in no particular order, a Chicagoan, a Jew, a black belt in...
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Stella Barra's Jeff Mahin on your right to pizza party
If you want to rile up the natives of Foodlandia, there's no better way than starting the deep-dish pizza argument (Is it a pizza? A casserole?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Upworthy, Antiques Roadshow, and Kurt Cobain and Courtney...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That President Obama is proposing an end to the bulk collection of phone records by the federal government? —Mick...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Seven Angels" is pioneering doom drone by Earth
On Thursday night pioneering drone act Earth will be playing at the Empty Bottle. The band, whose original lifespan lasted from 1989 to 1997, got back together about ten years ago and have since been...
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This week at the Nightingale: Avant-garde video, ethnology, and pasta
The Nightingale, the Noble Square microcinema and multimedia arts venue, seems to be enjoying a busy month. Ten days ago the venue's programmers embarked on a four-week collaboration with the Museum of...
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Add the scent of wild water-bug love to your dips and sauces
I never pass up a chance to make insect sauce, so I was thrilled when Friend of the Food Chain Leela Punyaratabandhu offered to send me some water-bug essence she brought back from Thailand. Maeng da...
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Sam Smith brings UK two-step back to the Hot 100
One of the best pop songs of 2012 was Disclosure's "Latch," a throwback house track flavored with some of the smoothed-out funk of turn-of-the-millennium UK two-step and a synth part that salvages the...
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