Today the exhibition “Palette and Palate” opens at Madron Gallery (1000 W. North). It’s a retrospective celebrating Chicago’s Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery that anticipates a PBS documentary on the topic dropping in December. In the mid-20th century, Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery was founded by former WPA artist Ric Riccardo. At first, he immersed diners in […]
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Rika Lin’s ‘ingenuity of necessity’ bridges centuries of tradition
Influences from kabuki and karate inform choreographer Rika Lin’s boundary-crossing body of dance work.
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Learning to love Chicago with your ears
The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology believes engagement with the sonic environment can help build more sustainable communities—and it’s demonstrating with a soundwalk in the Chicago Pedway.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 10/9: Cinema Slapdown, Birgit Ulher & Eric Leonardson, and George Saunders
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, October 9
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Best shows to see: Obits, Saint Vitus, Birgit Ulher & Eric Leonardson
Best shows to see Mon 10/7 through Wed 10/9
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In this week’s Reader: The making of an alderman
What’s in the January 19, 2012 issue of the Reader
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Show us your . . . springboard
Each week, we ask you to show us something. This week it’s a springboard.
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Turntablist Ignaz Schick Explodes the Monkey in Chicago This Weekend
Friday and Saturday at Enemy, Ignaz Schick “plays” his turntable with debris and metal and improvises with everyone from free-jazz horn men to abstract noise wizards.