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Author Archives: Sam Worley

Posted inArts & Culture

For Natalie Y. Moore, south-side Chicago isn’t a headline—it’s home

by Sam Worley March 23, 2016August 18, 2021

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation grounds political reporting in personal experience.

Posted inArts & Culture

A tour of bizarre outdoor art exhibits in the midwest

by Sam Worley May 14, 2015August 18, 2021

Check out strange open-air art along highways and byways in Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Posted inArts & Culture

The natural selection of Jenny Kendler

by Sam Worley June 3, 2014August 18, 2021

Jenny Kendler, first-ever artist in residence for the Natural Resources Defense Council, makes complex work about the weird relationship between humans and the natural world.

Posted inArts & Culture

Joel Greenberg’s A Feathered River Across the Sky tracks the terminal flight of the passenger pigeon

by Sam Worley January 7, 2014August 18, 2021

Joel Greenberg writes a fascinating history of an iconic North American species.

Posted inBlogs

In holiday spirits at the Revel Room

by Sam Worley November 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Around the corner from the Violet Hour, a new craft-cocktail bar serves thoughtful, nuanced drinks.

Posted inArts & Culture

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013

by Steve Bogira, Aimee Levitt, Janet Potter, Connie Vaughn and Sam Worley November 13, 2013August 19, 2021

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more

A still from Derek Brunen's Plot
Posted inArts & Culture

“The Way of the Shovel” could dig a little deeper

by Sam Worley November 12, 2013August 19, 2021

An MCA exhibit about art and archaeology could dig a little deeper.

You can spend about three times the hourly minimum wage on a flamingly mediocre entree here.
Posted inFood & Drink

Justice Scalia dines at the Bentley Tavern

by Sam Worley November 8, 2013August 19, 2021

The bland new Bentley Tavern raises the price of mediocrity.

The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Posted inArts & Culture

When the earth shook beneath the Mississippi

by Sam Worley November 5, 2013August 19, 2021

The story of a powerful seismological event where you’d least expect to find it: The Mississippi Valley.

Andrea Jablonski, DJ Mr. Voice, and Edra Soto
Posted inArts & Culture

Chiming in the last weekend of Chicago Artists Month in East Garfield Park

by Sam Worley October 22, 2013August 19, 2021

The final stop on CAM’s tour features a wind chime exhibit and a late-night dance party.

Posted inBlogs

Call for submissions: The Reader’s 14th annual Pure Fiction issue

by Sam Worley October 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Submissions to our annual Pure Fiction issue are due November 15.

Diasporal Rhythms cofounders Joan Dameron Crisler, Daniel Parker, Carol Briggs, and Patric McCoy, in Parker's home
Posted inArts & Culture

The art of collecting

by Sam Worley October 9, 2013August 19, 2021

Diasporal Rhythms, a group of Chicagoans who collect work by artists of African descent, celebrates ten years.

Posted inBlogs

It’s all over now, baby blue: A Breaking Bad chat

by Mara Shalhoup, Kevin Warwick and Sam Worley September 30, 2013August 19, 2021

Three Reader staff members discuss one of the most heavily anticipated finales in television history.

Posted inBlogs

Aged to perfection at the Berkshire Room

by Sam Worley September 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Under the direction of Ben Schiller, the bar on the first floor of the Acme Hotel unveils a splendid drinks program.

If your neighborhood bagel-and-lox place happened to be lit by a massive chandelier
Posted inFood & Drink

Dillman’s is Brendan Sodikoff’s blintz-krieg

by Sam Worley September 20, 2013August 19, 2021

With Dillman’s, Brendan Sodikoff brings a haute (and fabulous) “deli-style American brasserie” to River North.

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