-
-
-
Restaurant Review
-
The chef ditches food trucking and says hello again to fine dining
- by Mike Sula
-
Tags: Restaurant Review, Phillip Foss, Andrew Brochu, Alinea, Kith & Kin, Lockwood, Bill Talbott, food trucks, Meatyballs Mobile, testicles, bull testicle sandwich, El Ideas, Recommended
-
-
-
Artist on Artist
-
The reformed punk rocker talks to Matthew Hale Clark of White/Light about opening for Pearl Jam, writing positive music, and not sounding like a hippie
-
Tags: Artist on Artist, John Doe, X, Matthew Hale Clark, White/Light, Pearl Jam, Sadies, Cindy Wasserman, Maggie Bjorklund, Stuart Johnson, Dave Carpenter
-
-
-
Gossip Wolf
-
Moritat steal a move from hip-hop. Plus: Herculaneum drummer Dylan Ryan has more on his plate than the group’s new album, and local funk bands get down with Occupy Chicago
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
-
Tags: Gossip Wolf, Moritat, Herculaneum, Dylan Ryan, afrobeat, Occupy Chicago, Flosstradamus, Trap-o-holics, Pterodactyl, Tim Kasher, Icy Demons, Rainbow Arabia, Ether Feather, Chicago Afrobeat Project, Get Up and the Get Downs, Danny Brown, Kid Sister
-
-
-
Gossip Wolf
-
The midwest indie institution shutters its store and distro. Plus: Logan Square punk dive Pancho's gets a brunchy makeover, the Hood Internet drop a remix album, and more
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
-
Tags: Gossip Wolf, Brian Peterson, MP Shows, Tamiz Haiderali, Logan Square, Dark Matter, Hood Internet, Mishka, Foster the People, Ninjasonik, Johnny Nelson, A.C. Newman, Psalm One, Slow Witch, Parasol Records, Parasol Label Group, Hidden Agenda, Reaction Recordings, Champaign-Urbana, Bully in the Hallway, Mike Lust
-
-
-
In Rotation
-
Plus: Reader music listings dude Luca Cimarusti on the Weeknd chopped and screwed, and Bruce Lamont of Bloodiest on the Soft Moon's dark synth
-
Tags: In Rotation, The Weeknd, Wax Idols, Nirvana, Noah Leger, Blue Man Group, Anatomy of Habit, Party Downers, Dead Rider, Bruce Lamont, Electric Hawk, Indian, The Soft Moon
-
-
-
Art Feature
-
Chicago architecture’s chief bad boy and critic takes on his own contentious career
- by Deanna Isaacs
-
Tags: Art Feature, Stanley Tigerman, Tigerman and McCurry, architecture, Emmanuel Petit, Skokie Holocaust Museum, Anti-Cruelty Society, architoons, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ayn Rand, George Fred Keck, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Robert A. M. Stern, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Marg, Archeworks, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
-
-
-
Culture Vultures
-
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
-
-
-
Performing Arts Review
-
Court Theatre's great production of a 90-minute monologue based on Homer's The Iliad
- by Tony Adler
-
Tags: Performing Arts Review, The Iliad, Court Theater, An Iliad, Denis O'Hare, Robert Fagles, Achilles, Lisa Peterson, Drew Dir, Homer, Charles Newell, Timothy Edward Kane
-
-
-
Bleader
-
In defense of offal eating—as virtuous as a bowl of bean curd.
- by Mike Sula
-
Tags: Vegetarian Week, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Phoenix tofu, Golden Pacific Market, Chicago Farmstand, vegetarian food, Kevin Warwick, Hugh Amano, Chinese food, Double Li, Lao Sze Chuan, City Provisions, Variations on a Theme
-
-
-
Bleader
-
I was always one of those fish-eating, leather-boots-loving vegetarian poseurs.
- by Mara Shalhoup
-
Tags: Vegetarian Week, Food & Drink, Variations on a Theme, Logan Square Farmers Market, Green City Market, Dill Pickle, vegetarianism, locavorism, flexitarian, Thanksgiving
-
-
-
Bleader
-
The Blackhawks are looking good, but there's reason to worry.
- by Ted Cox
-
Tags: Sports, Blackhawks, hockey, Patrick Kane, Marian Hossa, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, United Center, Joel Quenneville, NHL
-
-
-
Bleader
-
The holiday shopping season kicks off.
- by Heather Kenny
-
Tags: Style, Black Friday, Le Dress, Tula, Eskell, Michelle Tan, Perchance, the 900 Shops, Lissa, Vintage Heaven, sales
-
-
-
Bleader
-
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
-
Tags: Film, Hugo movie, Hugo Martin Scorsese, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Muppets movie, Arthur Christmas, Caldecott Medal, Brian Selznick, J. Edgar movie, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar Hoover, Melancholia movie, Melancholia Lars von Trier, Rachel Getting Married, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch, My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Rid of Me, Tape movie, Tape Li Ning, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Last Waltz, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Robert Wise, The Sound of Music, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Northbrook Public Library, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, West Side Story, Orchestra Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, movies, Video
-
-
-
Bleader
-
I admired Mies's elegant towers before I knew his name
- by Michael Miner
-
Tags: Architecture Week, Architecture, Variations on a Theme, Mies van der Rohe, Toronto, Chicago, Farnsworth House, IBM Building, Illinois Center, Peter Palumbo, Prince Charles, Picasso, Goya
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Why I became a vegetarian, and why I lapsed.
- by Kate Schmidt
-
Tags: Vegetarian Week, Food & Drink, vegetarianism, Anna Thomas, The Vegetarian Epicure, Molly Katzen, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Berkeley, Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Whitehall, Middletown, Colonial Dames, Khan B.B.Q., Sun Wah BBQ, Beijing duck, Hot Doug's, Edzo's, Vegetarian Week, Variations on a Theme
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Christopher Munch's Letters From the Big Man, opens Friday at Facets Multimedia.
- by Ben Sachs
-
Tags: Film, Christopher Munch, Letters From the Big Man, Lily Rabe, Facets Multimedia, Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, New Queer Cinema, The Sleepy Time Gal, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jacqueline Bisset, Martha Plimpton, Nick Stahl, Brisk and Leaping, Harry + Max, Steve McQueen, Shame
-
-
-
Bleader
-
A Q&A with the guy who might be bringing back legal sampling
- by Miles Raymer
-
Tags: Crickets, Music, Legitmix, Omid McDonald, Sharp Darts, El-P, Rush, hip-hop, sampling, technology, the biz
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Evanston decriminalized marijuana, but for whom?
- by Ben Joravsky
-
Tags: The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, marijuana, pot, The Reefer, Evanston, decriminalize marijuana, Chicago, New Trier High School, Dave Chappelle
-
-
-
Bleader
-
A documentary on a year in the life of Spanish chef Ferran Adrià's modernist temple, El Bulli, screens Friday through Thursday at the Siskel.
- by Mike Sula
-
Tags: Food Chain, Film, Food & Drink, El Bulli, Ferran Adria, Louisa Chu, modernist cuisine, El Bulli Foundation, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, Gereon Wetzel, Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Danish pedal-steel guitarist Maggie Bjorklund, who plays in John Doe's band on Saturday at the Old Town School, also makes beautiful music on her own.
- by Peter Margasak
-
Tags: Music, Post No Bills, John Doe, Maggie Bjorklund, Old Town School of Folk Music, Coming Home, Mark Lanegan, Jon Auer, Rachel Flotard, Joey Burns, John Convertino, Calexico, Bloodshot, Intertwined
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Honey fuels the vegan flexitarian debate.
- by Kevin Warwick
-
Tags: Vegetarian Week, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Variations on a Theme, vegan, vegetarian, honey, Slate, beekeeping, flexitarian, gelatin, honeycombs, bees
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Stanley Tigerman takes on the influence of Mies van der Rohe in a new collection of architectural essays, Schlepping Through Ambivalence.
- by Deanna Isaacs
-
Tags: Architecture Week, Architecture, Variations on a Theme, Stanley Tigerman, Schlepping Through Ambivalence, Yale University Press, Mies van der Rohe, Robert A.M. Stern, Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, Columbian Exposition, Video
-
-
-
Bleader
-
The rundown on Reader performing arts reviews.
- by Tony Adler
-
Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, Ann: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards, Holland Taylor, An Iliad, Court Theatre, The Jackie Wilson Story, Black Ensemble, The Baker's Wife, Circle Theatre, A Bright New Boise, Livewire, Burning Bluebeard, Neo-Futurists, Date Me!, The Sound of Silence, Salomme Speelt, Five Flights, Oops! I Christmassed Again, ComedySportz, Immediate Theatre, Peer Gynt, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Season's Greetings, Northlight Theatre, Sweet Confinement, Sinnerman Ensemble, We Are Not These Hands, Right Brain Project, The Caretaker, Writers' Theatre, Urlakis & Cusick, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Global Rhythms
-
-
Bleader
-
On his absorbing new album, jazz pianist Dan Tepfer gives a beautiful rendering of Bach's Goldberg Variations, with each section followed by an improvisation on the theme.
- by Peter Margasak
-
Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Dan Tepfer, Glenn Gould, J.S. Bach, Goldberg Variations, jazz, classical music, Andras Schiff, Keith Jarrett, Goldberg Variations/Variations, Pierre Hantaï, Variation 20, Improvisation 20
-
-
-
Bleader
-
In this week's Food & Drink: El Ideas, Key Ingredient grass jelly, 12 gastropubs
- by Kate Schmidt
-
Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Phillip Foss, Lockwood, Meatyballs Mobile, El Ideas, Andrew Brochu, Kith & Kin, Key Ingredient, grass jelly, Michael McGill, Old Oak Tap, Rodney Staton, calves' liver, the Ogden, the Bedford, Frontier, Brian Jupiter, the Portage
-
-
-
Bleader
-
John Paul Stevens and Richard J. Posner review William Stuntz's "The Collapse of American Criminal Justice."
- by Michael Miner
-
Tags: Media, News Bites, News, Justice John Paul Stevens, Judge Richard Posner, William Stuntz, "The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, " Justice Earl Warren, American Bill of Rights, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Emmett Till, Jim Crow, Colfax massacre, New York Review of Books, New Republic, Moneyball, Sabermetrics
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Muppets fans rage against the Reader's ho-hum movie review.
- by J.R. Jones
-
Tags: Film, Rotten Tomatoes, Adam Sandler, Jack and Jill, The Artist movie, The Muppets movie, Hugo movie, Hugo Martin Scorsese, Kermit the Frog, The Tree of Life, movie critics, film criticism, movies
-
-
-
Bleader
-
A reevaluation of the 2011 family comedy Monte Carlo, now available on DVD.
- by Ben Sachs
-
Tags: Film, Monte Carlo, Thomas Bezucha, Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy, Ben Sachs, DVD, Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen, Brett Cullen
-
-
-
Bleader
-
Robert Powers captures the "Cubic Zirconium Coast."
- by Tal Rosenberg
-
Tags: Architecture Week, Architecture, Variations on a Theme, Architecture Week, architecture, Whet Moser, Hausner & Macsai, Robert Hauser, John Macsai, Lake Shore Drive, Harbor House, Robert Powers, A Chicago Sojourn, Purple Hotel, high-rises, Hollywood Avenue, Loyola University, Sheridan Road, Cubic Zirconium Coast, nostalgia, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe
