Arts
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Books Foreign Arts Film Politics The 25-year-old Mestizo: the freshest movie in town
Posted by Ben Sachs on 06.19.13 at 05:00 PM
Behind Our Scenes Seriously? Arts Music Food & Drink News The funniest, weirdest, and angriest Best of Chicago reader votes
Posted by Drew Hunt on 06.19.13 at 02:45 PM
- Steve Jurvetson
- Barack Obama, circa '08.
Unsurprisingly, many of you took the opportunity to get a bit cheeky with your selections. Take, for example, the person who voted Goodwill the Best Boutique for Men. Kudos to the person who considers the Best View of the City to be My apartment . . . Ladies? And a shout-out to the dollar-menu-naire who voted McDonald's the Best Fancy Restaurant—I'm sure you keep those Snack Wraps on lock. (By the way, you need to link up with whoever wrote in I'm too poor to eat at fancy restaurants—give 'em a taste of the good life.) My personal favorite vote for Best Gay Bar: Wrigley Field.
Style Arts Street View 103: Flashy sunnies in Wicker Park
Posted by Isa Giallorenzo on 06.19.13 at 02:31 PM
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest style seen in Chicago.
A look is not just about the clothes. Even sporting a very basic double-denim ensemble, Gabi stood out with her orange sunnies, bright lips, and gamine bowl cut. Bold, unfussy but still polished—and very stylish.
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Wed 6/19: Thai Festival, Bronzeville art, and Psalm One
Posted by Tosten Burks on 06.19.13 at 06:12 AM
- Prowess Photography
- Thai Festival
Thai Festival takes over Federal Plaza today until Friday to celebrate and showcase the culture's boxing, dancing, music, fashion, and of course, food.
At this one-time-only event, Art Encounter takes a bus tour through Bronzeville to get an inside view of visual art on the south side. Visit sculptor Milton Mizenberg in his home, Nigerian artist Dayo Laoye in his studio, and the South Side Community Art Center.
When veteran Chicago rapper Psalm One released a new EP last month titled Free Hugs, it was under the alias Hologram Kizzie—bold, to change personae a decade into a career. The emcee headlines tonight at Township.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Arts Media Visual Art VICE magazine tries to find the glamour in suicide
Posted by Sarah Nardi on 06.18.13 at 04:46 PM
Arts Media Visual Art News Where are the editorial cartoonists who take the side of the NSA?
Posted by Michael Miner on 06.18.13 at 10:39 AM
- Steve Kelley
Why didn't the Tribune publish one or two cartoons in that vein? Editorial page editor Bruce Dold tells me there weren't any.
Yet the president made a pretty good point, and I bet a lot of these cartoonists don't disagree with it. So why didn't any of them say so? Let me propose an answer. A cartoon attacking Obama and the NSA for snooping on Americans practically draws itself. A cartoon defending the NSA surveillance as regrettable but necessary—how the hell do you draw that? A great editorial cartoon (not that any of the Tribune's was) is like a great epigram—it's easier to admire than trust. Like the gleaming Bean in Millennium Park, it's got seams but you can't see them.
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Tue 6/18: Millennium Park movies, One-Minute Play Festival, and Douglas Ewart
Posted by Tosten Burks on 06.18.13 at 06:08 AM
Millennium Park's summer film series is back. While there have been a couple movies shown already this year, tonight's screening of the glossy, bombastic musical Chicago—preceded by a Roger Ebert tribute—is the official kick-off event.
For those with shorter attention spans, Victory Gardens' One-Minute Play Festival, featuring nearly 60 emerging Chicago playwrights, comes to a close today at the Biograph Theatre.
Minneapolis multi-instrumentalist and composer Douglas Ewart, who's touring with a group appropriately called "Sonic Feast," plays tonight at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Books Arts Neighborhoods Moviegoing Film My favorite book about Chicago moviegoing
Posted by Ben Sachs on 06.17.13 at 05:00 PM
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Mon 6/17: "Chicago 78/79," The Russian Play: An Improvised Black Comedy, and the African Diaspora Film Festival
Posted by Drew Hunt on 06.17.13 at 06:09 AM
"Chicago 78/79," currently on display at Alibi Fine Art, features late-70s-era photos of Chicago by David Gremp.
Tonight's the last night to catch The Russian Play: An Improvised Black Comedy at Studio BE. "In this exceptional project, styled after Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide, the hero changes every week, but the bleak circumstances stay the same: a comrade who's been ejected from the workforce attempts to reenter it, is repudiated, and kills himself," writes Reader contributor Jena Cutie.
This may or may not be, as the New York Times recently proclaimed, the year of the black film, but the African Diaspora Film Festival, hosted by Facets Cinematheque, has been going on since 2002. This year's fest features 14 films by black filmmakers from more than a dozen countries.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Do This Arts Reader's Agenda Sun 6/16: Bloomsday, Eleventh Dream Day, and HMS Pinafore
Posted by Tosten Burks on 06.16.13 at 06:00 AM
- JIM NEWBERRY
- Eleventh Dream Day
The day James Joyce got married met his future wife (and the day on which he set Ulysses so as to not forget) only comes once a year. Celebrate this Bloomsday at the Irish American Heritage Center with brunch, drinks, and live readings from the novel. This is your chance to say you've read it!
Though Eleventh Dream Day just released New Moodio, a previously unheard forerunner to their 1993 album El Moodio, singer-guitarist Rick Rizzo is more excited about the band's new music—he says the current lineup is their best in 20 years. Catch them tonight at Hideout.
Tonight's the last chance to see Light Opera Works' staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1878 comic operetta HMS Pinafore, which Reader critic Albert Williams says strikes a near-perfect balance between goofiness and elegance.
For more on these events and others, check out the Reader's daily Agenda page.
