Letters
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.
Politics
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
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.
Media
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
Soundboard
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
Music Column
Kidz in the Hall MC Naledge brings a craftsman’s work ethic to hip-hop’s Internet era.
Music Feature
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
Music Feature
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
Music Feature
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
Music Feature
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
Music Sidebar
Cracker and the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International headline a weekend of festivities in the River North neighborhood
Restaurant Reviews
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
Restaurant Reviews
Reviews of Eivissa, Terzo Piano, and other new restaurants.
Feature
The man, the myth, the misrepresentations
Feature
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
Feature
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
The Arts
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.
Performing Arts Review
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
The Arts
Why did Neighborhood Housing of Chicago get a grant from the NEA?
Book Review
Tales Designed to Thrizzle turns boob-tube tropes into art.
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
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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
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by Whet Moser
Tags: Chicagoland , Architecture , Daniel Burnham , Plan of Chicago , architecture , Whereblog , Chicago , Chicago history , urban planning , Make no little plans , Bill Savage
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by Heather Kenny
Tags: Fashion , sales , Robin Richman , Beta Boutique , Escada , Venus , Alison Mosshart , Dead Weather , Serpico , shopping , Net-a-porter , Chicago , fashion
Bleader
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
Bleader
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.
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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
Bleader
The cumbia gets a stunning facelift from Colombia's Bomba Estereo, who make their Chicago debut tonight at Rumba.
Bleader
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
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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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
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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
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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
Bleader
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
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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
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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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
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
Bleader
by Whet Moser
Tags: Chicagoland , Architecture , Visual Art , Sears Tower , Willis Tower , architecture , history , Chicago architecture , Chicago history , economics , Sears , banking , meatpacking
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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
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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
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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
Bleader
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