Politics
Ben Joravsky and Sam Adams
The Picture Police
Do festivals like Pitchfork and Lollapalooza have the right to restrict photography in a public park?
Music / Post No Bills New Guitar Music at the Hideout Tonight
Posted by Peter Margasak on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Travis Bird and Dan Burke
His curatorial side gets another airing via an excellent new vinyl-only release called Offstrings. Burke is one of four guitarists on the collection, and all of them will be performing tonight at the Hideout in celebration of the release.
Free Shit / Food & Drink 7/31 — Free Beerfest at Whole Foods
Posted by Robin Peterson on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM
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Crickets / Music The Best of the Rest
Posted by Kevin Warwick on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:40 PM
- Todd Roeth
- Cotton Jones
This week's List of course has its fair share of recommendations, and there's also the great lineup at Wicker Park Fest to keep in mind. But in a city this big, you can always find more shows that warrant attention. Check out my day-by-day breakdown of the week's other notable happenings after the jump:
Chicagoland / Media / Politics Mick Dumke: New Job, Same Great Aldermanic Quotes
Posted by Whet Moser on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Much as I already miss Mick Dumke, at least I still get to read him:
Sixth Ward alderman Freddrenna Lyle wondered if food would be sold in the wee hours of the night “so people can have something to eat to absorb that liquor.”
Chicagoland / Food Chain / Lit & Lectures / Film / Music / Food & Drink / Performing Arts Dinner & a Show: Friday 7/30
Posted by Whet Moser on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Spike & Mike Present New Generation Animation
Show: Spike & Mike Present New Generation Animation "These 19 short animations place a lower premium on grotesquery than the usual "Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation" package—most of them would be rated PG—but the artistic quality is as high as I remember from the Spike & Mike imprimatur in its heyday," writes Cliff Doerksen.
Midnight, Music Box, 3733 N. Southport Ave., 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre.com
Dinner: Cafe Orchid "When Kurt Serpin says he’s cooking Ottoman cuisine, he doesn’t mean the extravagant feasts of the sultans, but he is talking about the traditional Turkish cuisine that evolved from the sultans’ expansive palace kitchens," writes Mike Sula.
1746 W. Addison St., 773-327-3808, cafeorchid.com
Ink Well
Your City Council Now more than ever, it's important to follow what our 50 aldermen are up to. Are our representatives up to the task of telling the mayor "no" once in a while, or, better yet, of coming up with an alternative vision of Chicago government? Read our guide and decide for yourself what their prospects are.
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Movies To See Today
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Countdown to Zero
Nearly 50 years after the Cuban missile crisis, the danger of a nuclear attack on the U.S. is compounded by a false sense
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Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre
Spike & Mike Present New Generation Animation
These 19 short animations place a lower premium on grotesquery than the usual "Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation" package—most of them
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Music Box
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Farewell
Christian Carion (Joyeux Noel) fashions an engrossing espionage drama from a forgotten but crucial episode of the Cold War: the 1983 spy case
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Landmark's Century Centre and Renaissance Place
» More Critics' Choices and other Recommended Movies
The Best Cap'n Jazz Cover Band Ever Tim Kinsella on returning to the music he's spent most of his career trying to shake
The Picture Police Do festivals like Pitchfork and Lollapalooza have the right to restrict photography in a public park?
The List: July 29-August 4, 2010 Critic's Choices and other notable shows: Zomes, Night Beats, Andrew W.K., the Aram Shelton Quartet, Seu Jorge & Almaz, Bob Log III, and more
Bartok Rock Reds and Blue: what happens when a music professor's kid forms a band
Photo Pit: Konono No. 1, I Kong Kult July 20, Empty Bottle
Secret History of Chicago Music: Care of the Cow "You're not a band, you're a religion."
Crashing Pumpkins Corgan down! Plus: Guns n' Roses' hoses, the KOL pigeon, Major Taylor reports from Comic-Con, and more
The Kubba King A family business built on spiced meat and bulgur
Beyond Baba Ghanoush Recommended Middle Eastern restaurants
The Restaurant That Wants to Be a Truck Gaztro-Wagon, in storefront form. Plus: Indian and Nepalese at Cumin in Wicker Park and the Cookie Bar in Lincoln Park.
In the Neighborhood Recommended Edgewater restaurants
So Bad It's . . . Bad The lesson of Best Worst Movie? Life's too short to waste on terrible movies.
The War From Both Sides In two new docs: Osama bin Laden's servants in and out of Gitmo, U.S. soldiers in and out of Afghanistan
Comedy With Teeth Laura Jacqmin gets serious laughs from a dental society meeting.
The Other Chicago Machine The Second City can't turn out a dull revue—even when it seems to be trying.
In the Fish Tank A convicted felon, a suspected white-collar criminal, and a teenager too smart for his own good, thrown together and just trying to stay afloat in the world premiere of A Guide for the Perplexed
A Cabbie's Tale Local noir, from the front seat of a taxi
When Know-It-Alls Don't It's not just biblical knowledge that’s faith-based.
Habit to Close, Vince to Open One store closes, another opens.
New Bags at Modbags New finds at Modbag.com
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