Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Gig Posters Music Gig poster of the week: David Gray
Posted by Luca Cimarusti today at 07.52 AM
Media Politics News The mayor's first year: moving forward, over and over again
Posted by Mick Dumke today at 07.17 AM
- Ray Noland
- Rahm Emanuel does not want to be confused with that guy who used to be mayor
Today marks Rahm Emanuel’s one-year anniversary as mayor of Chicago, as the local media have reminded us repeatedly in recent days, in between updates on which city streets will actually be open during the NATO summit.
The verdicts on our new mayor have all been similar: he’s “impatient,” “frenzied,” “rash,” and thrilled to be rebuilding a city "that had lost its direction and confidence" under Richard M. Daley.
In fact, one could say that Emanuel is an illustration of the Newtonian law that a body in motion will maintain its velocity unless acted upon by an outside force, which never happens in Chicago, since there aren’t any outside forces with the guts or millions in cash to alter the mayor's course.
Style Style Week Giving away: a bad-luck jacket
Posted by Deanna Isaacs today at 06.26 AM
One deep-purple, near-vintage, cotton summer jacket by legendarily inventive designer Issey Miyake.
Meticulously constructed, immensely comfortable and versatile, with top-stitched and embroidered seams, creative yoking, side pockets, and apparent curse.
Dear reader:
Might you want my jacket? And do you believe that clothes have karma?
I don’t, of course.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Crime Media News Are there other Gacy graves?
Posted by Michael Miner on 05.15.12 at 08:30 PM
But Alison True, who was editor of the Reader from 1994 to 2010, and independent TV producer Tracy Ullman believe Gacy killed and buried more people than that. "Are there others?" asks the site they just launched. "Detective Bill Dorsch believes there are and he's pretty sure he knows exactly where they're buried. This site documents the efforts of Dorsch, a career Chicago homicide detective, to find and share new evidence in the case of the notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
"Gacy, who ran a small contracting company in Chicago, was arrested in 1978 and eventually confessed to having killed 33 young men and boys. He buried some of their bodies at his home, and others he dumped in a nearby river. Over the last 15 years, Dorsch has learned not only that Gacy may have worked with accomplices, but that a property on the city's northwest side almost certainly contains the remains of additional victims."
Music Post No Bills Old Town School drops the Folk & Roots fest for Square Roots
Posted by Peter Margasak on 05.15.12 at 04:51 PM
Music Post No Bills Swedish trumpeter Emil Strandberg makes his Chicago debut
Posted by Peter Margasak on 05.15.12 at 03:51 PM
Whoa $$$ Charity works much faster, funnier on Twitter
Posted by Asher Klein on 05.15.12 at 02:43 PM
- photosync / Shutterstock
"Jersus Chronst thank you so much everyone I feel so many emotions right now that I think I am becoming ALMOST a female," she tweeted. [Sic, sic.] You can read about the surgery here, but you can't help anymore—she shut down the PayPal link as soon as her cult following ponied up the money.
Style Style Week Street View 008: Casual + Neat
Posted by Isa Giallorenzo on 05.15.12 at 12:31 PM
Street View is a series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights fascinatingly fashionable Chicagoans.
Ed attains the difficult balance of relaxed yet well put together. Notice the attention to detail: the perfectly buttoned cardigan, the rolled-up sleeves, the crispiest bow tie ever, the perfectly fitted pants . . .
12 O'Clock Track Music Post No Bills 12 O'Clock Track: Yoko Ono, "Why"
Posted by Peter Margasak on 05.15.12 at 12:00 PM
Time, of course, has been very good to both of them. Ono's manic, shrieking vocals on "Why"—a piercing, sirenlike wail derived from hetai, a technique used in Kabuki theater—presaged all sorts of extreme female singing that would emerge during the postpunk era. It's hard to think of a single female new-wave singer, from Lene Lovich to Kate Pierson to the vocalist in just about every early Rough Trade band, who didn't sound like she was swiping from Ono—albeit with relatively palatable and pop-friendly results.
Foreign Film I'm outta here!
Posted by Ben Sachs on 05.15.12 at 11:45 AM
