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Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Sep 10, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
John Saturnall's Feast
,
Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
, and Sirène absinthe verte
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Diana Slickman
,
Theater Oobleck
,
BoyGirlBoyGirl
,
Lawrence Norfolk
,
Jac Jemc
,
Sheila Heti
,
Carrie Olivia Adams
,
Black Ocean press
,
North Shore Distillery
,
absinthe
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Sep 4, 2012
Video
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
The Mental Illness Happy Hour, the corner of Fullerton and Western, and
Samsara
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Rachel Niffenegger
,
The Mental Illness Happy Hour
,
Robert Tenges
,
Fullerton and Western
,
Christopher Jobson
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 28, 2012
Self-taught artist George Kagan: "That's where I learned about alienated labor"
A report from artist Laura Shaeffer's discussion with Kagan, whose collection of hand-built radios is on display at Intuit
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Arts
,
Visual Art
,
George Kagan
,
radios
,
University of Chicago
,
Intuit
,
Hyde Park Kunstverein
,
Laura Shaeffer
,
Ex-Static
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Aug 27, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
Half Italian Deli, Starz's
Boss
, and Comedy Bang! Bang!
By Jordan Larson and Allegra Kirkland
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Sam Lewis
,
Elastic Arts Foundation
,
delis
,
Mig Mora
,
City of Win
,
Boss
,
Starz
,
Adam McCormack
,
Paper Mice
News & Politics
,
Zoom in
Aug 22, 2012
Zoom In: Bridgeport
Two huge totem poles guard the entrance to a Bridgeport Boys and Girls Club
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Zoom in
,
Boys and Girls Club
,
totem poles
,
Loius L. Valentine
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Aug 21, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
Public Works gallery, Grant Park Orchestra rehearsals, and Kurowski's Sausage Shop
By Allegra Kirkland and Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Lindsay Garbutt
,
Poetry magazine
,
Matthew Hoffman
,
Ayako Kato
,
Dance Union
,
Grant Park Orchestra
,
Heather Holbus
,
Public Works Gallery
,
Kurowski's Sausage Shop and Rich's Bakery
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 10, 2012
Hyde Park hotel construction draws protests
Teachers and activists protested the use of TIF funds in constructing a hotel in the University of Chicago's Harper Court project.
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Politics
,
TIF
,
Hyde Park
,
University of Chicago
,
Harper Court
,
CPS
,
Rahm Emanuel
,
Pritzker
,
Hyatt Corporation
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 31, 2012
Video
Remembering Chris Marker
The French director turned science fiction on its head, creating a haunting film in the process
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Foreign
,
Film
,
Chris Marker
,
French film
,
La Jetée
,
Sans Soleil
,
12 Monkeys
,
Terry Gilliam
,
science fiction
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 6, 2012
John Wayne Gacy and lighting-based dance: the week in performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews from
Reader
writers
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Theater
,
Arts
,
Dance
,
Hero:The Musical
,
Second City
,
We're All in This Room Together
,
Slideshow Theatre Company
,
The Gacy Play
,
John Wayne Gacy
,
Jr.
,
Dance Union
,
"Salon Solarium—Dancing to Lighting"
,
As You Like It
,
Lorenzo B
,
Renny Black's Delightfully Doomed Door of Decadent Disarray
,
The Lover
,
Harold Pinter
,
Hooter Rangers: A Spicy Morphing Burlesque
,
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
,
Naked July:Art Stripped Down
,
iO
,
My Mans
,
Mark Raterman
,
Tim Robinson
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 3, 2012
Slideshow
The longitudes and latitudes of 'Local Metrics': An interview with artist Eliza Myrie
A look at the "Local Metrics: Majeed, Mooses, Myrie" exhibition at the U. of C.
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Arts
,
Eliza Myrie
,
University of Chicago
,
visual art
,
Logan Arts Center
,
Pilsen
,
Faheem Majeed
,
Cathy Alva Mooses
,
Hamza Walker
,
Derrion Albert
,
Slideshow
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 25, 2012
Slideshow
Video
Sights and sounds of Dyke March
A report, with video and photos, from Dyke March
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
LGBTQ+
,
Dyke March
,
Pride Week
,
Pride Parade
,
Juana Peralta
,
Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero
,
Vajaqueque Brown
,
Slideshow
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 20, 2012
The best of our readers' hilarious Best of Chicago votes
Your 100,000 opinions (mostly) captured the pulse of the city. And then there were the outliers.
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Seriously?
,
Best Week
,
Best of Chicago 2012
,
Best of Chicago
,
Variations on a Theme
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Dec 15, 2011
This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .
Lincoln Park's Zoolights show, Bing Crosby's
White Christmas
, and more
By Asher Klein and Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Cleo Wilson
,
Intuit: The Centuer for Intuitive and Outsider Art
,
Beth Gutcheon
,
David Spadafora
,
Newberry Library
,
Lincoln Park Zoo
,
Zoolights
,
Vic and Paul show
,
Victoria Zielinski
,
Paul Barrosse
,
Practical Theatre Company
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Dec 8, 2011
This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .
Live literature, the holiday El Train, and Greg Palast's
Vulture's Picnic
By Asher Klein and Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Robbie Q. Telfer
,
Encyclopedia Show
,
Write Club
,
Funny Ha-Ha
,
Barbara Scharres
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
CTA
,
holiday train
,
Michael Balzer
,
iO
,
improv
,
Vultures' Picnic
,
Greg Palast
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Dec 1, 2011
This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .
Gomez/Wilson: Windows & Mirrors
and
Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old Fashioned Experience
By Asher Klein and Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Ellen Hartwell Alderman
,
Gomez/Wilson: Windows & Mirrors
,
East Garfield Park galleries
,
Peter Exley
,
Ron Faiola
,
Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old Fashioned Experience
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Nov 23, 2011
This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .
Deadwood
for Thanksgiving,
PANK Magazine
, and the DePaul Theatre School's Playworks for Families and Young Audiences
By Asher Klein and Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
Sean Graney
,
The Hypocrites
,
Deadwood
,
Jamie Yates
,
Instafiction
,
PANK Magazine
,
Veronic I. Arreola
,
VivaLaFeminista.org
,
DePaul Theatre School
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Nov 17, 2011
This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .
The Stars of Fame
, Emily Oaks Nature Center, and "Yesterday's Losers"
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Culture Vultures
News & Politics
,
Zoom in
Nov 17, 2011
Zoom In: Woodlawn
Now it's predominantly black, but 63rd Street Beach wasn't always open to African-Americans
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Zoom in
,
Woodlawn
,
South Shore Country Club
,
63rd Street Bathing Pavilion
,
63rd Street Beach
,
segregation
Arts & Culture
,
Culture Vultures
Nov 10, 2011
Culture Vultures: Shel Silverstein, the Paper Machete, and Wangari Maathai
In-the-know Chicagoans tell the
Reader
what they're watching, reading, and seeing
By Jordan Larson and Asher Klein
Tags:
Culture Vultures
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Sidebar
Oct 27, 2011
A sampling of this year's Halloween shows
A sampling of Halloween shows
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Performing Arts Sidebar
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Sidebar
Oct 20, 2011
Steppenwolf's First Look Repertory of New Work
The First Look Repertory of New Work offers scripts in progress
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Performing Arts Sidebar
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Sidebar
Oct 13, 2011
Sailors, cross dressers, and Milton Friedman
Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Amplified amps up its play-development series with three new plays
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Performing Arts Sidebar
,
Goodman Theatre
,
New Stages Amplified
,
Dartmoor Prison
,
Chicago Boys
,
Ask Aunt Susan
,
Smokefall
,
Carlyle Brown
,
Kathleen Tolan
,
Seth Bockley
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 12, 2011
Third annual Edison Park Comedy Fest
The third annual Edison Park Comedy Fest features performances by Tony Valle, Mike Stanley, Joe Kilgallon, and others.
By Jordan Larson
Tags:
Onstage
,
Performing Arts
,
Comedy
,
Arts
,
Edison Park
,
Edison Park Comedy Fest
,
Marty DeRosa
,
Joe Fernandez
,
Comedians You Should Know
,
Joe Kilgallon
,
Tony Valle
,
Mike Stanley
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