Letters & Comments July 16, 2009

One aspect of racism is often refusing to admit an issue has a racial context—even when it involves an all-white group turning violent destroying a music which is associated with blacks.

• Tags: Letters, Disco Demolition, Movie showtimes, ice cream, Flamingo's, avocado ice cream, Diane Alexander White, Steve Dahl, Disco Demolition Night, racism

Still No Property Tax Bill for the Park Grill

The restaurant under the Bean wins another round in its fight to avoid paying up like everybody else.

• by Ben Joravsky
• Tags: Politics, Chicago, Cook County, politics, Matthew O'Malley, Laura Foxgrover, James Houlihan, Richard Billik, Park Grill, Eugene Golub, Richard M. Daley, Mayor Daley, property taxes, Chicago Sun-Times

Savage Love, July 16, 2009: You can have a boyfriend and Jesus, too.

Look, kiddo, you get one life, one chance at happiness. If it gives you a spiritual semi to fantasize about a God who created you gay but forbids you to act on your emotional and sexual attraction to men, knock your damn self out. But you can have a boyfriend and Jesus, too. You just have to do what people have been doing since the first terrified idiot invented the first religion: improvise.

• by Dan Savage
• Tags: Savage Love, Savage Love, sex, Catholicism, religion, celibacy, coming out, Man and Woman He Created Them, Bill Donohue

As the Sun-Times Media Group Prepares to Sell, Employees at Indiana's Post-Tribune Try Once Again to Buy

As the Sun-Times Media Group prepares to sell, employees at Indiana's Post-Tribune try once again to buy.

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: Media, News, Media, Inland Press Association, Andy Grimm, STMG, ESOP, bankruptcy, media, journalism, newspapers, Gary, Indiana, buytheposttribune.com, Copyediting, Tribune Company, Creative Loafing, Sun-Times Media Group, Jeremy Halbreich, Post-Tribune, Gary Newspaper Guild

The List, July 16-22, 2009

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: White Mystery, Andrea Marcovicci, Those Darlins, Harvey Milk, the Min Xiao-Fen Asian Trio, Psychedelic Horseshit, and more

• by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Brian Costello, Monica Kendrick, Bill Meyer, Ann Sterzinger, Albert Williams and Kevin Warwick
• Tags: Soundboard, Justin Adams & Judeh Camara, Najat Aatabou, Jon Irabagon & Mike Pride, Moaners, White Mystery, Andrea Marcovicci, Those Darlins, Total Abuse, Harvey Milk, Min Xiao-Fen Asian Trio, Psychedelic Horseshit, Future of the Left, Frank Rosaly & Keefe Jackson

Naledge: New-School Mind, Old-School Grind

Kidz in the Hall MC Naledge brings a craftsman’s work ethic to hip-hop’s Internet era.

• by Miles Raymer
• Tags: Music Column, Naledge, Chicago Picasso, Kidz in the Hall, Double-0, The Land of Make Believe, I'm in Chicago Bitch, Video

The Reader's Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival

What you need to know before you go

• by Miles Raymer, Peter Margasak, Jessica Hopper, Monica Kendrick, Bill Meyer, Kevin Warwick and Ann Sterzinger
• Tags: Music Feature, Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill, Disappears, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Dutchess & the Duke, Plants and Animals, Fucked Up, Antlers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Bowerbirds, Final Fantasy, Ponytail, Yeasayer, Wavves, Doom, Lindstrom, Beirut, Matt & Kim, Black Lips, The National, Michael Columbia, The Mae Shi, Dianogah, Frightened Rabbit, Blitzen Trapper, Killer Whales, Pharoahe Monch, Women, Thermals, DJ/Rupture, Walkmen, Japandroids, M83, Vivian Girls, Grizzly Bear, Mew, The Very Best, Flaming Lips

The Reader's Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Saturday

• by Miles Raymer, Monica Kendrick, Kevin Warwick, Jessica Hopper, Bill Meyer, Peter Margasak and Ann Sterzinger
• Tags: Music Feature, Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill, Disappears, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Dutchess & the Duke, Plants and Animals, Fucked Up, Antlers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Bowerbirds, Final Fantasy, Ponytail, Yeasayer, Wavves, Doom, Lindstrom, Beirut, Matt & Kim, Black Lips, The National, Michael Columbia, The Mae Shi, Dianogah, Frightened Rabbit, Blitzen Trapper, Killer Whales, Pharoahe Monch, Women, Thermals, DJ/Rupture, Walkmen, Japandroids, M83, Vivian Girls, Grizzly Bear, Mew, The Very Best, Flaming Lips

The Reader's Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Friday

• by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick
• Tags: Music Feature, Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill, Disappears, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Dutchess & the Duke, Plants and Animals, Fucked Up, Antlers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Bowerbirds, Final Fantasy, Ponytail, Yeasayer, Wavves, Doom, Lindstrom, Beirut, Matt & Kim, Black Lips, The National, Michael Columbia, The Mae Shi, Dianogah, Frightened Rabbit, Blitzen Trapper, Killer Whales, Pharoahe Monch, Women, Thermals, DJ/Rupture, Walkmen, Japandroids, M83, Vivian Girls, Grizzly Bear, Mew, The Very Best, Flaming Lips

The Reader's Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Sunday

• by Miles Raymer, Jessica Hopper, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer and Ann Sterzinger
• Tags: Music Feature, Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill, Disappears, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Dutchess & the Duke, Plants and Animals, Fucked Up, Antlers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Bowerbirds, Final Fantasy, Ponytail, Yeasayer, Wavves, Doom, Lindstrom, Beirut, Matt & Kim, Black Lips, The National, Michael Columbia, The Mae Shi, Dianogah, Frightened Rabbit, Blitzen Trapper, Killer Whales, Pharoahe Monch, Women, Thermals, DJ/Rupture, Walkmen, Japandroids, M83, Vivian Girls, Grizzly Bear, Mew, The Very Best, Flaming Lips

Taste of River North

Cracker and the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International headline a weekend of festivities in the River North neighborhood

• by Kevin Warwick
• Tags: Music Sidebar, Taste of River North, Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, Cracker, Erie Park, Ai Japanese, Sullivan's

Simple yet exquisite seasonal cuisine at Nightwood and Browntrout

Featured reviews of new restaurants Nightwood, Browntrout, and Fianco

• by Martha Bayne, Mike Sula and Anne Spiselman
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Nightwood, Lula Cafe, Jason Hammel, Amalea Tshilds, Jason Vincent, Kevin Heisner, Matt Eisler, Pilsen, Chicago restaurants, Browntrout, Sean Sanders, Bin 36, green restaurants, Fianco, Matt Troost, maltagliata, Mike Sula, Martha Bayne, Anne Spiselman, blogsherpa, golden trout, borlotti beans, chicken liver pate

New Too

Reviews of Eivissa, Terzo Piano, and other new restaurants.

Daniel Burnham

The man, the myth, the misrepresentations

An Odd Way to Honor Daniel Burnham

The Daniel Burnham behind the Plan of Chicago was a doer, a pragmatist, a builder of consensus. The folks behind the architectural component of his centennial tribute must've been thinking of someone else.

• by lynn becker
• Tags: Feature, Daniel Burnham, Plan of Chicago, Chicago architecture, Zaha Hadid, Ben van Berkel, Burnham Centennial, Millennium Park, Robert Somol, Joseph Rosa, Colin Rowe, Kristen Schaffer, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Blair Kamin, David Woodhouse, AIA, John Wellborn Root, World's Columbian Exposition, White City

Daniel Burnham Told Us to Fill the Potholes Too

Daniel Burnham probably never said his most famous words, and if he did, he didn't really mean them.

• by Bill Savage
• Tags: Feature, Daniel Burnham, Edward Bennett, Plan of Chicago, Chicago architecture, Lookingglass, Chicago expressways, boulevards, The Last Four Miles, potholes, "Make no little plans", Lookingglass Theatre Company

Zaha Hadid's Burnham Centennial Pavilion: A Big Aluminum Hot Potato?

TenFab Design either quits or is fired by the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee when it goes overdue and over budget on building a Zaha Hadid-designed Burnham Centennial pavilion for Millennium Park.

• by Deanna Isaacs
• Tags: The Arts, Zaha Hadid, Burnham Plan Centennial Committee, Burnham Centennial pavilion, Aaron Helfman, TenFab Design, Millennium Park

"Naked July" Fest Needs More Than Nudes

A review of the Naked July: Art Stripped Down festival at National Pastime Theater. The shows cited are: Living Canvas's Nocturne, the Ripette Burlesque's Speakeasy to Me, The Girlie-Q Variety Hour, The Great American Nudie Spectacular, and David Kaplan's staging of The Day on Which a Man Dies.

• by Justin Hayford
• Tags: Performing Arts Review, Naked July: Art Stripped Down, Nocturne, Living Canvas, The Ripettes Burlesque, Speakeasy to Me, The Girlie-Q Variety Hour, The Great American Nudie Spectacular, The Day on Which a Man Dies, Tennessee Williams, National Pastime Theater

Which One of These NEA Grant Recipients Doesn't Belong?

Why did Neighborhood Housing of Chicago get a grant from the NEA?

• by Deanna Isaacs
• Tags: The Arts, Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, North Lawndale, National Endowment for the Arts, Charles Leeks, NEA, Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative

Michael Kupperman's High Hucksterism

Tales Designed to Thrizzle turns boob-tube tropes into art.

• by Noah Berlatsky
• Tags: Book Review, Michael Kupperman, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Fantagraphics, comics, Monty Python's Flying Circus

SOM's William Baker wins prestigous structural engineering award

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Architecture, Bloomingdale Trail, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, High Line park, Manhattan, William Baker, Bill Baker, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, SOM, Fritz Leonhardt prize, engineering, architecture

I'm really not the only Olympics skeptic out there

• by Ben Joravsky
• Tags: Politics, Sports, Clout City, No Games Chicago, Chicago 2016 Committee, Chicago Tribune, 2016 Olympics, Neighborhood Capital Budget Group, Alderman Joe Moore, Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, Mayor Richard Daley, Lakeview Citizens Council

This week's food and drink events

• by Julia Thiel
• Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Kendall College, Culinary Curiosity Exhibition, ChicaGourmets, A Day in the Country, Vandermolen Blueberry Farm, Taste of River North, Neal's Yard Dairy, Goose Island Brewpub, After School Matter, Taste of Southeast Asia

The No-Pander Zone

• by Ben Joravsky
• Tags: Clout City, 2016 Olympics, Olivet Baptist Church, Mayor Richard Daley, Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, Permit Parking, Political Honesty, politics, Chicago politics, Chicago City Council

Dubhe Carreño Gallery reopening in a new location this fall

• by Julia Thiel
• Tags: Visual Art

Sergent Garcia returns to Chicago

• by Peter Margasak
• Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Sergent Garcia, international music, Logan Square Auditorium, David Chavez, immigration, France, Ozomatli, Grupo Fantasma

Family Day at the Eli's Cheesecake/Wright Farmers Market

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Free Shit, Food & Drink, Food, Swag, Eli's Cheesecake, Eli's Cheesecake/Wright Farmers Market, farmers market, Wright Farmers Market, farmer's market, farmers' market, Melissa Graham, Purple Asparagus, Rob Gardner, the Local Beet, Momentary Opera, Redmoon Theater, face painting, dance lessons

Siege at Republic

• by Ed M. Koziarski
• Tags: Film, workers, republic, windows and doors, local 1110, labor beat, andrew freund, kari lydersen, armando robles, ue, revolt on goose island, united electrical, occupation, benefits, bank of america, can tv, Video

Dave McDonnell bids Chicago adieu

• by Peter Margasak
• Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Dave McDonnell, the Hats, Michael Columbia, the Diminisher, Jason Adasiewicz, Chicago jazz, Bobby Hutcherson, Elastic, Evan Spacht

We don't trust 'em either

• by Ben Joravsky
• Tags: Politics, Clout City, 2016 Olympic Committee, Lori Healey, Mayor Richard Daley

A band you should hear: Philly's Tough Shits

• by Miles Raymer
• Tags: Crickets, Music, Davila 666, Tough Shits, Mannequin Men

Looking back at Wimbledon

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: Sports, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Wimbledon

Summer trunk show at Maison de Couture

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Style, Free Shit, Swag, trunk show, summer trunk show, Maison de Couture, Ukrainian Village, hair color consultation, hair consultation, cocktails, free, Ulta, Ulta Beauty

On plans big and little

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Architecture, Daniel Burnham, Plan of Chicago, architecture, Whereblog, Chicago, Chicago history, urban planning, Make no little plans, Bill Savage

Audrey Niffenegger's "Best Books Ever"

• by Jerome Ludwig
• Tags: Lit & Lectures, Visual Art, Books, Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry, The Night Bookmobile, Printworks

Friday-night stargazing at N.U.

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Northwestern University, Northwestern, NU, Dearborn, Dearborn Observatory, Dearborn Telescope, stargazing

Mazzonelli out at Theatre Building Chicago

• by Deanna Isaacs
• Tags: Onstage, Arts, Theatre Building Chicago, Joan Mazzonelli, Thom Van Ermen, Jeff DeLong

Leszek Kolakowski

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: Lit & Lectures, News Bites, Books, Leszek Kolakowski, University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Arthur Danto, "Modernity on Endless Trial"

Sales, deals, and a contest

• by Heather Kenny
• Tags: Fashion, sales, Robin Richman, Beta Boutique, Escada, Venus, Alison Mosshart, Dead Weather, Serpico, shopping, Net-a-porter, Chicago, fashion

Three quick Pitchfork picks

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Bowerbirds, The Mae Shi, The Very Best, Esau Mwamwaya, Radioclit, Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit are the Very Best, Paper Planes, Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, HLLLYH, Pitchfork Festival, Union Park, music, Video

An Open Mind

Mayor Daley's Olympics boosters still haven't explained how they're going to pay for the games, but I promise to listen closely when they make their pitch in North Park tonight.

• by Ben Joravsky
• Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago politics, 2016 Olympics, North Park College, Chicago 2016 bid

Like a farmers' market, only with clothes

• by Heather Kenny
• Tags: Style, Chicago sidewalk sale, shopping, Chicago fashion designers, Michelle Tan, Trois Chemises, Veronica Riley Martens, Fashion Focus

7/16 — Najat Aatabou

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Justin Adams, Juldeh Camara, Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Najat Aatabou

Jamlady speaks up: "Jamlady is not crazy"

• by Daniel Shumski
• Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Fruit Slinger, Jamlady, cookbooks, reviews, Beverly Alfeld

A blemish on Chicago's fashion scene

• by Heather Kenny
• Tags: Fashion, Jake, shopping, New York Times, Lance Lawson, Jim Wetzel, Chicago, fashion, Doo-Ri Chung

7/18 — Women's health and fitness fair

• by Keith Griffith
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Are You Game?, Women's Health, North Avenue Beach, euro bungee

Black Ops in the Green Economy

The city is set to move forward with an exciting solar power project on the south side. So why won't it share information about it?

• by Mick Dumke
• Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Economic Development, Exelon, Chicago City Council, Chicago politics, Alderman Carrie Austin, Alderman Manny Flores, green economy, Alderman Anthony Beale, environmental issues, Alderman John Pope, Alderman Virginia Rugai, solar panel, West Pullman, federal stimulus plan, solar power, renewable energy

Times: continuing to be rough and tough like leather

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, TIFs, millionaires, Willis Tower, Sears Tower, politics, economics, Oak Park

7/16 — White Mystery show at Cobra Lounge

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, White Mystery, Alex White, Critic's

Just so we're all clear

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympics, Mayor Daley, politics

Colombia's Bomba Estereo electrify cumbia

The cumbia gets a stunning facelift from Colombia's Bomba Estereo, who make their Chicago debut tonight at Rumba.

• by Peter Margasak
• Tags: Music, Post No Bills, rumba, Zizek Urban Beats Club, Cumbia, Bomba Estereo, Ivy Queen, Toto La Momposina, Simon Mejia, Liliana Saumet

Films at Alliance Francaise

• by Ed M. Koziarski
• Tags: Film, Boris Wexler, Alliance Francaise, Pillow Talks, Niles Maxwell, IFP/Chicago. Anna C. Butler, Bill Baykan, Stalk Much, Sean J.S. Jourdan, Beekeeper, Stalled, Julian Grant, Maidenhead, Marie Ullrich, Cache, Roundabout American

Surprise, surprise

Roland Burris has reportedly decided not to embark on an election bid he wasn't going to win. Yesterday Lisa Madigan bowed out. But somebody's going to run, right?

• by Mick Dumke
• Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Mark Kirk, Alexi Giannoulias, Lisa Madigan, U.S. Senate, Roland Burris, Illinois Politics, Chris Kennedy, 2010 elections, Cheryle Jackson

Eve of destruction for Michael Reese Hospital

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Architecture, Visual Art, Politics, Clout City, Michael Reese Hospital, 2016, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympics, Mayor Daley, Toni Preckwinkle, politics, architecture, Lynn Becker, Walter Gropius, Deanna Isaacs, urban planning, Olivet Baptist Church

The never-ending pollo a la brasa wars

• by Mike Sula
• Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, pollo a la brasa, Brasa Roja, El Llano, D'Candela, Flying Chicken, Fina Estampa, Borincuba, Mr. Pollo, Fogo 2 Go

OK, more moon blogging

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Lit & Lectures, Books, W.H. Auden, Moon Landing, Musee des Beaux Arts, Alan Shepard, Apollo 11, poetry, literature

BoarsHead Theater veterans protest Kristine Thatcher's firing

• by Albert Williams
• Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Kristine Thatcher, BoarsHead Theater, Victory Gardens Theater

Pitchfork photos by Clayton Hauck, pt. 1

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art, Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival 2009, Yo La Tengo, Built to Spill, Union Park, music, photography, music festivals, Clayton Hauck, everyoneisfamous.com

Free Neal's Yard cheese tasting at Pastoral

• by Julia Thiel
• Tags: Food Chain, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Food, Swag, Pastoral, Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread, and Wine, Neal's Yard, Neal's Yard Dairy, free, cheese, free tasting, free cheese tasting, Montgomery cheddar, Ogleshield

Free Lincoln-centric tour of Graceland Cemetery tomorrow

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Dick Bjorklund, Graceland Cemetery, free, Lincoln

Casting announced for Superior Donuts on Broadway

• by Albert Williams
• Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Superior Donuts, August: Osage County, Tracy Letts, Steppenwolf Theatre, Michael McKean

Pitchfork photos by Clayton Hauck, pt. 2

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art, PItchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival 2009, Pitchfork festival pictures, photography, music, Clayton Hauck, everyoneisfamous.com, Built to Spill, Jesus Lizard, Yo La Tengo

A good moonwalk spoiled

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Media, Music, Apollo 11, Apollo 14, Alan Shepard, the Beatles, Voyager, Voyager Golden Record, Glenn Gould, Blind Willie Johnson, Daily Show, golf, moon landing, Video

Free screening of Freedom on the Fence Tuesday

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Polish poster art, poster art, Polish posters, Poland, Martin Rosenberg, Freedom on the Fence, DePaul University Art Museum, screening, free, documentary, WWII, communism

The Plan of Chicago: Centennial Edition

• by Jerome Ludwig
• Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Plan of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, Edward Bennett, Great Books Foundation, Lynn Becker

Pitchfork photos by Clayton Hauck, pt. 3

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art

Luciana Souza brings the bossa to Millennium Park

The Brazilian jazz singer plays two free shows with Luna Negra Dance Theater

• by Peter Margasak
• Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Free Shit, Swag, Luciana Souza, bossa nova, Brazilian music, Grant Park Orchestra, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Eduardo Vilaro, Romero Lubambo, Larry Klein, Millennium Park

Free opera performance

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Free Shit, Performing Arts, Arts, Swag

7/17—"Healthy Living in the City" Garden Walk

• by Julia Thiel
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago, garden walk, healthy living in the city, free

The proof we need

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: News Bites, Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Saturn V rocket, Apollo 11 skeptics

Chicago Griddle Guide asks for a Kickstart

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Food & Drink, Food, Kickstarter, Chicago Griddle Guide, Andy Baio, Kind of Bloop, Miles Davis, food, Chicago diners, restaurants, Adrian Holovaty

Pitchfork photos by Clayton Hauck: the final day

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art, Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, Clayton Hauck, everyoneisfamous.com, Pitchfork photos

Street style at Venus mag's pre-Pitchfork party

• by Heather Kenny
• Tags: Fashion, street style, Venus Magazine, Pitchfork

One bite: Lithuanian potato sausage

• by Mike Sula
• Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Racine Bakery, Lithuanian food, Polish food, potato sausage, vederai, kolacky, blogsherpa

Free Groucho Marx glasses (and Duck Soup screening)

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Groucho Marx, Guinness, Guiness, Guinness Book of World Records, world record, Chicago Outdoor Film Festival, Duck Soup, Grant Park, glasses, free

Eight new restaurant reviews

• by Mike Sula
• Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Nightwood, Browntrout, Fianco, Eivissa, Kin Sushi & Thai Cuisine, Life Line Tropical Island Cuisine & Juice, Lunch Rolls, Saluté Wine Bar, blogsherpa, Chicago restaurants

Hot air at City Hall

• by Mick Dumke
• Tags: Politics, Environment, Clout City, Eco, politics, environment, public health, air pollution, air quality, coal-burning power plants, Fisk, Crawford, Midwest Generation, Daley administration, Alderman Virginia Rugai, Alderman Joe Moore, Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Brian Urbaszewski, Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago, climate change, energy, global warming, Chicago City Council

The boundless sonic creativity of Okkyung Lee

• by Peter Margasak
• Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Okkyung Lee, Min Xiao-Fen Asian Trio, free improvisation, Haptic, Steve Hess, Adam Sonderberg, Elastic, Vijay Iyer, Laurie Anderson, Christian Marclay, Billy Martin, Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, Video

Pitchfork photos by Clayton Hauck, pt. 4

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art, Pitchfork, music, Pitchfork Music Festival 2009, Pitchfork pictures, Clayton Hauck, Fucked Up, everyoneisfamous.com

Free Eternals show in Evanston tonight

• by Alex Yablon
• Tags: Music, Free Shit, Swag, The Eternals, James Park, Evanston, Free, Video

New shows, new reviews

• by Tony Adler
• Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, Bent, Cavalia, The Conduct of Life, The Cousins Grimm, Disney's Aladdin, Girls Vs. Boys, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Macbeth, Naked July, Never the Sinner, Our Future Metropolis, Storybox, Viva Che Latte, Wanted, What We May Be

The new alchemy: turn gold into a new bag

• by Heather Kenny
• Tags: Fashion, Gold, cash, handbags, accessories, Chicago, fashion, Bess & Loie

About that tower

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: Media, Sears Tower, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Willis Group, Willis Tower, Dave Greising, U.S. Equities Asset Management

Pitchfork photos by Clayton Hauck, pt. 5

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art

7/23 — Free Novalima and Issa Bagayogo Concert

• by Alex Yablon
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Novalima, Pritzker Pavilion, The List, Free, Issa Bagayogo

Pitchfork sells out, releases more festival passes

• by Kevin Warwick
• Tags: Crickets, Music, Pitchfork, Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, the Jesus Lizard, passes

Origin of the jibarito?

• by Mike Sula
• Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, jibarito, patacon Maracucho, Borinquen Restaurant, Juan C. Figueroa, blogsherpa, plantains, jibaro, Moncia Eng, Dave Cook, New York Times, $25 and Under

Tower-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Architecture, Visual Art, Sears Tower, Willis Tower, architecture, history, Chicago architecture, Chicago history, economics, Sears, banking, meatpacking

How to get shot by the Sartorialist

• by Heather Kenny
• Tags: Style, street style, Scott Schuman, the Sartorialist, Garance Dore, fashion, Advanced Style, Bill Cunningham, New York Times

Free performances by Luciana Souza and the Luna Negra Dance Theater

• by Nicholas Teddy
• Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Luciana Souza, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Luna Negra, Grant Park Music Festival, Grant Park Orchestra

Jon Irabagon finds a balance between inside and outside jazz

• by Peter Margasak
• Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Jon Irabagon, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Mike Pride, Chicago jazz, Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition

Onstage nudity provokes heated response

• by Tony Adler
• Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Naked July, Justin Hayford, National Pastime Theater, neoburlesque, burlesque, strippers

Pitchfork after-party: Allá, Smith Westerns, Blue Ribbon Glee Club

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Smith Westerns, Allá, Love Lockdown, Digs, Es Tiempo, Pitchfork, Pitchfork after parties, Os Mutantes, music, rock, Bottom Lounge, Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Miles Raymer, Faust, Terry Riley, John Cale, Church of Anthrax

Handsome but intriguing

Chick flick stalwart Hugh Dancy is the "handsome but intriguing," astronomically obsessed hero with Asperger's Syndrome in Adam, the romantic comedy by Max Mayer that plays in a preview screening tonight at AMC River East

• by Ed M. Koziarski
• Tags: Film, Gen Art, Hugh Dancy, Max Meyer, Rose Byrne, Adam, AMC River East, Hub 51, Video

Freedom of sex taping?

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Media, Sports, The Sexist, Amanda Hess, Creative Loafing Tampa, Sex and Love blog, Sean Alff, Erin Andrews, Leighton Meester, sex tapes, sexism, consent, Deadspin, Will Leitch, media, journalism

7/16: Clay Hays of Gigposters, Diana Sudyka at Quimby's

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art, Free Shit, Swag, Clay Hays, Gigposters.com, art, rock posters, Diana Sudyka, Jay Ryan, The Bird Machine, The Tiny Aviary, Quimby's

The unforgivable apology

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: Media, Sports, Michael Vick, Rick Morrissey, Bernie Madoff, Chicago Tribune, "I'm sorry"

7/18-7/26 — Romeo and Juliet in the park

• by Keith Griffith
• Tags: Onstage, Free Shit, Performing Arts, Arts, Swag, Romeo and Juliet, Purple Bench Productions, Shakespeare, Skinner Park, Lake Shore Park

Savage Love vs. Christian love

• by Whet Moser
• Tags: Chicagoland, Gay, Christianity, religion, Savage Love, homosexuality, Dan Savage, Lutheranism, ELCA, Let's Talk