- Issue of
- Aug 16-22, 2018
- Vol. 47, No. 45
Key Ingredient and Cocktail Challenge say goodbye A look back on the most daring recipes and the most creative drinks By Julia Thiel
Five pairings of fine wine and classic Chicago fast food
Trump Tower’s new restaurant: Run by lizard people?
Music: Ephraim Bugumba sings his refugee’s tale as Storyteller
Columns & Opinion
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- On Culture
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A lawsuit to prevent the Obama Presidential Center's ‘illegal land grab’ in Jackson Park is moving forward
The activist group Protect Our Parks claims that the city’s plan to turn 19 acres of Jackson Park over to the Obama Foundation is unconstitutional.
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- Savage Love
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May a couple in a polyamorous relationship get off on tales of trysts?
A master and slave want to know. Plus: how to make your boyfriend break up with you, how not to out a future spouse
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- On Transportation
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Chicago’s pilot dockless bike-share program is showing promise on the far south side
While dockless bike share is experiencing growing pains or worse in other cities, records show that DoBi providers LimeBike and Pace are doing decently.
Music
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- Gossip Wolf
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Wild bear rapper Big Dipper comes home to tease his long-awaited debut album
Plus: Rock iconoclasts Blizzard Babies, gnarly glam band Lollygagger, and brand-new boogie label Leisure Records all celebrate fresh releases.
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- Music Feature
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Ephraim Bugumba sings his refugee’s tale as Storyteller
His long, hard journey from the Congo to DeKalb began when he was three, but he uses music to keep a connection to home alive.
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- The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Folksinger Kristin Lems has been a favorite of the women’s movement—and of Dr. Demento
Evanston native Kristin Lems has shared stages with John Prine and Gloria Steinem, and she's currently working on a play with songs about Jane Addams.
Arts & Culture
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- Art Feature
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Brian Wells has quietly spent decades documenting the south side in oil paintings
The McKinley Park artist’s work will be on display at the Rainbo Club in September.
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- Art Feature
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At the Perry Mansion Cultural Center, Sam Smith wants to reshape the narrative of black life in America
The culmination of his project will be a reconstruction of a slave ship in the museum’s basement.
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- Dance
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Once a performer at Dance for Life, Hanna Brictson returns with her own company
Chicago dancers unite to raise money to support their colleagues with health issues.
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- Performing Arts Feature
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Yippie Fest, the successor to the dear departed Abbie Fest, comes back for a second year
This year’s iteration promises 101 acts, plus a ceremony to honor Pigasus, the Youth International Party’s 1968 presidential nominee.
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- Theater Review
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The Fly Honey Show promises something for everyone—except minimalists
There's sex-positivity, body-positivity, whooping, hollering, and convulsing, all loud and proud.
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- Theater Review
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The inconsequential first half of Holding the Man is as hard to swallow as its devastating conclusion
Tommy Murphy's adaptation of Australian author Timothy Conigrave's coming-of-age memoir fails to question the sociopolitical forces that led to the AIDS crisis.
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- Theater Review
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With a confused Richard III, Muse of Fire goes out with a flicker
The company's attempts to play with gender dynamics just create confusion.
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- Art Review
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Chicago artist Mika Horibuchi paints oil trompe-l’oeil replicas of her grandma’s watercolors
The result is an experiment in looking at the world through someone else’s eyes.
Film
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- Movie Review
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Araby follows the life and jobs of an itinerant Brazilian laborer
João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s film conjures up the vision of a working-class literary culture improbably thriving in the rootlessness of the 21st century.
Food & Drink
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- Restaurant Review
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At Terrace 16 you can eat like Donald Trump does
And that means $28 cheeseburgers cooked medium.
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- Food & Drink Feature
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Five Chicago fast-food wine pairings
At last, the classics get the respect they deserve.
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- Food & Drink Feature
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A fond farewell to geoducks and other memorable Key Ingredients
Goodbye natto, and balut, and durian.
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- Food & Drink Feature
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The Cocktail Challenge hall of fame
Not even pig's blood or stinkbugs daunted our intrepid mixologists.
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Blogs
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- Bleader
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Queen Key at Summer Smash and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Crazy Rich Asians and more goings on 8/17-8/19.
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- Bleader
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Breaking and tagging at the Writer's Bench 2018 Battle for the Eagle in Logan Square
Dancers, DJs, and graffiti artists celebrated out in the open, not in train tunnels.
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- Bleader
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UPDATED: R. Kelly’s Chicago studio and alleged ‘cult’ outpost for sale—with him in it
You can become the notorious R&B star's landlord, but it'll probably cost you almost $4.5 million.
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- Bleader
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BlacKkKlansman and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Josie Dunn at Lincoln Hall and more goings on 8/10-8/12
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- Bleader
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Alec Klein, Northwestern professor accused of sexual misconduct, resigns
Six months after former students accused him of sexual harassment and bullying, the award-winning journalist, a director at the Medill Justice Project, resigns.
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- Bleader
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Confest 2018 and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
The Sea and Cake at Pritzker Pavilion and more goings on 8/13-8/16
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- Bleader
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Noir City: Chicago travels back in time to the postwar golden age of noir
The organizing principle seems to have been: what was a typical night at the movies like for the average American crime fiction fan in the late 40s and 50s?
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- Bleader
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The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck's director of the week
Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
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- Bleader
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A psychedelic migraine on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was designed by local artist Bill Connors.
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- Bleader
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Getting dizzy at Ravinia when the CSO plays Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo score
The composer gave Hitchcock's films much of their menace.
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- Bleader
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Alderman who joked about the ‘gangsters’ on the City Council to plead guilty to corruption charges
Hmm, maybe 20th Ward alderman Willie Cochran really wasn't joking about being a gangster after all.
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- Bleader
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Invisible Institute launches expanded police misconduct database
Police union spokesman says "motives" behind database are "perfectly transparent."
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- Bleader
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ThoughtPoet is on a mission to capture the beauty in black Chicago
"I write, I act, and I try to do more with my photos than just capture moments."
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- Bleader
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The play The Harvest and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Bump J at the Promontory and more goings on 8/20-8/24.
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- Bleader
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Meg and Joe Piercy of MegMade give new life to old furniture
The husband-and-wife team have opened a new brick-and-mortal location in Bucktown.