It is with excitement that we are able to (finally) announce that the Chicago Reader is transitioning fully to its nonprofit status under the Reader Institute for Community Journalism!
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Bewjeweled butt plugs and the war on abortion
This is a column about worries.
Posted inMusic
Elastic Arts’ AfriClassical Futures series continues with the Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker
Since January 2020, vocalist Julian Otis and Elastic Arts executive director Adam Zanolini have programmed AfriClassical Futures, a series offering an antidote to the overwhelming whiteness and deadness of the classical canon. Each AfriClassical concert invites a Black artist working in or springboarding from the Western classical tradition for an intimate live performance and conversation, […]
Posted inArts & Culture
True biz? There’s a lot to learn in Sara Nović’s new book.
“Eyeth—get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not the ear, like here on Earth.” That’s the opener to “Ear vs. Eye: Deaf Mythology,” one of the many brief lessons sprinkled between the chapters of Sara Nović’s realistic fiction novel True Biz, released March […]
Posted inMusic
London label Touch brings its 40th-anniversary celebration to the International Museum of Surgical Science
London-based Touch isn’t a record label in the traditional sense; it’s far more multifaceted. It might be more accurate to describe Touch as a collective that also extends into publishing, performance curation, and site-specific multimedia events driven by a loosely defined stable of international avant-garde electronic and sound artists, who include guitarist and producer Fennesz, […]
Posted inCity Life
Broken Nose, American Writers Festival, and a Crystal Ball
Looking for some mid-month fun? Check out the following events and ideas. FRI 5/13 Broken Nose Theatre continues its season with the Chicago premiere of Zoe Kazan’s dystopic drama After the Blast, directed by JD Caudill. In light of the leaked SCOTUS draft decision on Roe v. Wade, Kazan’s story about a couple forced to […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
My wife has ‘new relationship energy’ with her girlfriend
Agreeing to a one-sided open relationship is not the same as agreeing to one-sided polyamory.
Posted inFilm
The Last Victim
No amount of cowboy bravado could pump life into director Naveen Chathappuram’s debut film.
Sponsored
Best Dating Sites for Real Relationships in 2022
If you’re open to giving online dating a try, these are the best dating sites to actually meet someone in 2021. Real people looking for real relationships.
Posted inMusic
Adult. delve into grief and darkness on their latest album, Becoming Undone
It’s tempting to call Adult. electroclash; the synth duo of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller debuted in 1998, coinciding with the style’s peak, and they’ve collaborated with notable groups in the genre such as Fischerspooner and Ladytron. But while the Detroit-based husband-and-wife team share some traits with the genre—particularly the way they pair an […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Deeper research and a politics of care
In the summer of 2020, the people of Chicago rose up in support of Black life, with thousands taking part in dozens of actions across the city. That season of uprisings had curator and cultural producer Ciera Alyse McKissick thinking about Black people moving through space: about how Black migration and travel has been a […]
Posted inFilm
Seeing with silence in avant-garde cinema
In the context of film, silence helps us appreciate the beauty and gift that is our sense of sight.
Posted inFilm
The sweet sound of silents
The film is the thing, the guiding force behind what they do.
Posted inFilm
Horror is a sound you can’t stop saying
Philip Glass’s soundtrack for piano, pipe organ, and chorus mirrors the repetition in the summoning spell.