- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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My favorite book about Chicago moviegoing
Revisiting Daniel Pinkwater's young adult novel The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 13, 2013
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Trying to make separate equal
Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 11, 2013
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A writer haunted by his brother's death finally tells the story
Richard Pollak finally finishes the memoir centered on his troubled brother.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Jun 6, 2013
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Who does Brandon Baltzley think he is?
A chef whose mesmerizing creativity is deserving of fame? A drug addict in recovery who rightly eschews sobriety? A twentysomething memoirist whose brief history is worth your time? Or is he none of those things?
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Jun 6, 2013
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The Reader's guide to the Printers Row Lit Fest
Judy Blume, Art Spiegelman, D.T. Max, Haki Madhubuti, and more: Our critics pick favorites for the annual book blowout.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, May 30, 2013
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Susan Nussbaum's next act
The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.
- Music, Music Feature, May 23, 2013
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The return of Dance Mania Records
Twelve years after it folded, the Chicago label that helped birth ghetto house, juke, and footwork music makes a play for the new EDM crowd.
- Music, Music Feature, May 8, 2013
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What music's outsiders and oddballs got up to before the Internet
A new coffee-table book and CD set documents the weird bygone world of private-press records.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, May 1, 2013
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Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don't call him a sentimentalist
The storied Tribune columnist gets a "mea culpa" from Trib theater critic Chris Jones.
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Apr 22, 2013
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Culture Vultures: Improv performer Pat Ivansek on Rod Serling's Night Gallery
Plus: WordPlaySound's Ryan Singleton on the mob history Deadly Valentines
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Apr 4, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
House of Cards, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Boy Detective Fails, and Chicago Whispers
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Apr 3, 2013
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The Books Issue: Violence
In which we explore works that confront violence in its many forms. Read together or on their own, what do these books have to tell us?
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 3, 2013
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Pain becomes parable in Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Stories can both harm and heal in a new collection by Karen Russell.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 3, 2013
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Who's to blame for violence against Native women?
In The Round House, Louise Erdrich settles for an easy target.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 3, 2013
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Gun Guys: Not quite lock, stock, and barrel
Dan Baum's latest could use more guys, less Baum.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 3, 2013
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From Averill to Zeus: A local lit roundup
Short takes on five new books
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 3, 2013
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No easy answers in David McConnell's American Honor Killings
That's the best thing about it.
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Mar 28, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
The Rebuilding Exchange, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and the Other People podcast
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Mar 27, 2013
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
The Secret Keeper, the Fabulous Ladies of Fitness, and Bunheads
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 19, 2013
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80s punk zine We Got Power! still packs a punch
A new book by Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz casts a broad view of LA's early-80s hardcore scene.
