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Home » Nostalgia

Tag: Nostalgia

Posted inArts & Culture

The rug revival

by S. Nicole Lane January 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Tufting their way through the pandemic

Posted inFood & Drink

Gone but not frog-otten

by Megan Kirby September 14, 2020August 18, 2021

A zinester remembers Rainforest Cafe.

Posted inMusic

The Chicago Underground Quartet bottle their lightning again

by Noah Berlatsky March 25, 2020August 18, 2021

For 19 years, the Chicago Underground Quartet’s first album was their only album—but now longtime collaborators Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, and Chad Taylor have recaptured the group’s freewheeling jazz spirit.

Posted inMusic

Boy Band Review help their fans turn off adulthood for a few hours

by Rachel Fernandez March 7, 2019August 18, 2021

You can’t count on a Jonas Brothers reunion every week—and in the meantime, this Chicago group brings nostalgic boy-band favorites to life onstage all over the midwest.

Posted inMusic

Incubus hated nu-metal before hating nu-metal was cool

by Leor Galil September 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Nu-metal is enjoying a rosy reappraisal in the media, but Incubus cut their ties to the much-maligned subgenre even before its early-2000s fall from grace.

Posted inMusic

Can Riot Fest turn nostalgia into a renewable resource?

by David Anthony September 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Maybe Riot Fest can book amazing reunions forever—but only by building current bands into tomorrow’s back-from-the-dead headliners.

Posted inBlogs

The new It is an R-rated Disney movie

by Ben Sachs September 14, 2017August 18, 2021

A new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel is a shrewd mix of nostalgia and horror.

Posted inBlogs

Drink in the nostalgia at the Reader’s Cocktail Challenge event on September 15

by Julia Thiel September 12, 2016August 18, 2021

Nearly 20 local bartenders compete Thursday at Salvage One to create cocktails that evoke simpler times.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Long live the 1990s Bulls

by Ben Joravsky June 23, 2016August 18, 2021

Deathless memories of Jordan’s team help us cope with Chicago basketball’s dysfunctional present.

Posted inBlogs

Check out our photos of Cheap Trick’s Metro show

by Bobby Talamine and Danielle A. Scruggs April 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Cheap Trick performed at the Metro, one week ahead of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Posted inBlogs

Alt-rock revivalists Post Child brings more 90s nostalgia to town this weekend

by Luca Cimarusti July 31, 2015August 18, 2021

The band’s new single sounds right out of the 90s.

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: Trail of Dead’s ‘It Was There That I Saw You,’ the opener to its seminal album

by Kevin Warwick March 31, 2014August 18, 2021

Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “It Was There That I Saw You” from Trail of Dead’s 2002 abum Source Tags & Codes, which the band will be playing in full at the Empty Bottle on Tue 4/1.

Posted inBlogs

Remembering Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills

by Ben Sachs October 3, 2013August 19, 2021

Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia

Posted inBlogs

The Shining at midnight: am I Blu?

by Ben Sachs October 8, 2012August 19, 2021

Thoughts on a recent midnight show at the Logan Theater

"I'm Mike Lust. Fuck it."
Posted inCity Life

Mike Lust’s den of vintage toys

by Andrea Bauer July 18, 2012August 19, 2021

Phantom Manor engineer Mike Lust fills his Logan Square abode with 80s nostalgia

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