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Tag: brothers
Posted inFood & Drink
The 151 best things I ate and drank in 2016
Purge the bitter taste of this year with these dishes and drinks.
Posted inNews & Politics
The drug warrior
Chicago DEA special agent in charge Jack Riley has targeted the Outfit, dirty cops, street gangs, and the Sinaloa cartel, yet the drugs keep coming.
Posted inBlogs
Joyce, Fitzgerald, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Posted inFilm
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
Thursday, October 21, through Sunday, October 31, with screenings in Chicago and Northbrook
Posted inArts & Culture
A Terrible Beauty is Born: An Evening of New Irish Literature
Back in 1983 two middle-aged brothers named Frank and Malachy McCourt hit Chicago with A Couple of Blaguards, their boozy barroom revue of stories and songs about growing up in–and escaping from–the rainy Irish coastal city of Limerick. A surprise hit at the now-defunct CrossCurrents cabaret, Blaguards stretched a two-week booking into an eight-month run, […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Michael Russick and David Russick
Tucked away in the back rooms of Artemisia Gallery (which is capable of mounting five one-person shows at once) is a refreshing surprise. The drawings of Michael Russick and paintings by his brother David are entirely unfamiliar to me, yet both follow a familiar sensibility uneasily known as the “Chicago style” of art. Nevertheless, each […]