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Coming soon: Amina Waheed's superb Chicago-shot documentary Corner Stores
I almost recommended Under the Same Sun—a well-intentioned but inescapably clunky Israeli-Palestian coproduction screening twice next week at the Gene Siskel Film Center—on the basis of the remarkable...
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In Bill Hillmann's novel The Old Neighborhood, Edgewater is rife with...
The things you do eventually catch up with you.If there's a central theme to Bill Hillmann's debut novel, The Old Neighborhood (Curbside Splendor), that could be it. Joe Walsh is essentially a good...
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Glunz marks its 20th annual Global Beer Expo
On Monday Louis Glunz Beer hosted its annual Global Beer Expo at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. There's always plenty of variety, but because it's a trade tasting brewers are unlikely to...
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Green Street Smoked Meats: Praise god and pass the pork ribs
Brendan Sodikoff's Green Street Smoked Meats is down-home simplicity just off Randolph Street. by Gwynedd Stuart"I'm not building restaurants to make everybody happy," restaurateur Brendan Sodikoff...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 4/18: The Kid, Todd Barry, and Regina Carter
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The Patio's last shows for a while, and the rest of this week's movies
At the end of next week the historic Patio Theater will close for an indefinite period, as the owners claim they're unable to afford repairs to the building's air-conditioning. (Heather Cherone...
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Richard III, Robin Hood, 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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Did you read about online security, the NBA, and Bob Ross?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That online security depends, at least in part, on a handful of volunteers? —Deanna Isaacs• About how Mayor...
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12 O'Clock Track: New melodic thrash from Boris
In June, loud-as-hell Japanese everything-metal band Boris will be releasing Noise, their 24th studio album. Over the course of the past 22 years, this heavyweight trio has experimented with—and...
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A busy weekend for live jazz: Pandelis Karayorgis, Michael Moore, Pat...
Chicagoans usually have many nightly options when it comes to quality jazz, but this is an especially fertile weekend. In this week's Soundboard I wrote previews for shows by violinist Regina Carter,...
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Has there really been, as the CDC reports, a huge decline in diabetes...
Here's the good news according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine: if you have diabetes, you're 67.8 percent less...
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Cubs runner crosses plate
With one out in the bottom of the seventh today at Wrigley Field, in a game with Cincinnati, Cubs third baseman Luis Valbuena singled in Starlin Castro. Cubs fans responded with a standing ovation,...
View ArticleReader's Agenda Sat 4/19: Chicago Zines, 20x2 Chicago, and Record Store Day
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Street View 183: Taking it easy
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Crystal looks effortlessly fashionable, perfect for a Friday evening stroll with her...
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The Encyclopedia Show turns a final page
The live-lit staple ends its five-year run. by Brianna Wellen Back in 2008, when poets Shanny Jean Maney and Robbie Q. Telfer were spitballing about the creation of a live-lit show, they turned to an...
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This week's Chicagoan: Heather Garry, corset maker
Heather Garry, corset maker: "People think corseting is antifeminist. Honestly, I think that's bullshit." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "First...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 4/20: Adult Easter Egg Hunt, American Me, and Kurt...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Charlie Chaplin
On Friday, the Silent Film Society hosted a screening of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, accompanied by the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra of North Carolina, at the ill-fated Patio Theater. Chaplin, of...
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The Pixies' deflating Indie Cindy and 15 more record reviews
Future's conscience-stricken coke rap and 15 more reviews of recent releases by Luca Cimarusti, Leor Galil, Kim Kelly, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer, Philip Montoro, Erin Osmon, Miles...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 4/21: Shakespeare's birthday, The Beast, and Neil Young
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