This might go down in history as the year everything got completely fucked forever, but some people will also fondly recall it as the year when Sonic Boom finally released his glorious second LP, All Things Being Equal—three decades after his solo debut. Peter Kember, the multi-instrumentalist better known as Sonic Boom, made Spectrum way […]
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Sheila Rashid makes possibilities you can wear
Chicago designer Sheila Rashid makes unisex clothes that give people the freedom to define themselves.
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A 20-year-old bottom having an affair with a 50-year-old European dom wonders what’s next now that she’s a big girl
Dan Savage advises a young woman ensnared by a married Christian Grey, and more.
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The Daphne festival sings the unsung women of electronic music
Performers from this week’s Daphne: A Women’s Movement in Dance Music talk to the Reader about artists who inspire them.
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Who made the Who?
Reader film editor J.R. Jones talks to the director of Lambert & Stamp, a new documentary about the visionary managers who shaped the band in its early days.
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The title character of Nick Hornby’s Funny Girl just isn’t all that funny
Failure can be so much funnier than easy success, but Hornby doesn’t let his heroine suffer or struggle.
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A fussbudget marks up the Tribune for words we could do without
Not everyone the press calls “sheepish” is actually sheepish.
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Vivian Maier, the lawsuit
A Vivian Maier exhibit leads to a lawsuit against the owners of the Wicker Park gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey.
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Marina Shifrin dances her way out of a job
She danced her way out of a job, but Marina Shifrin’s still in good standing with the troupe of oddball media makers.
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Remembering Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills
Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia
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When to pull the plug—or should we ever?
Stephen Hawking slammed for changing his view on assisted suicide
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BBC2’s The Fall delves into double lives
Everyone leads double lives, but especially serial killers.
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Now online: Adam Curtis’s Margaret Thatcher memorial
The British essay-filmmaker has uploaded his 1995 documentary The Attic to his website.