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Posted inArts & Culture

The ghosts of the drowned villages

by Dmitry Samarov July 8, 2022July 8, 2022

“Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink,” Coleridge’s sailor complains in the famous 1798 poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The mariner is talking about the plight on his ship, but he may as well be describing the city of New York. That year, a yellow fever epidemic led to an outcry over […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Down the stairs and into “Dreams & Delusions”

by S. Nicole Lane June 2, 2022June 1, 2022

“Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh,” writes Anne Carson in the 1998 novel, Autobiography of Red. Breathing new life, ripping parts apart—it’s the painful, heart-wrenching reality of being alive, of being absolutely anything at all. This is the work of Finnish artist Kristoffer Ala-Ketola, whose first […]

Posted inFilm

Sundance at home, again

by Josh Flanders and Sheri Flanders February 3, 2022February 3, 2022

All That Breathes, I Didn’t See You There, Last Flight Home, and more.

Trevor Dawkins under clothesline, Kurt Chiang in the background
Posted inArts & Culture

Too Much Light at 25: An oral history

by Janet Potter December 16, 2013August 19, 2021

The Neo-Futurists reflect on a quarter century of their forever-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.

Posted inBlogs

Schnitzel King really is the king of schnitzel

by Gwynedd Stuart July 17, 2013August 19, 2021

A visit to the food truck’s new Bridgeport storefront

Delroy Lindo, Jennifer Beals and Jason Clarke in The Chicago Code.
Posted inNews & Politics

They Got Us Wrong

by Ted Cox February 3, 2011August 19, 2021

The new Fox series, The Chicago Code, isn’t bad but it isn’t Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

Ain’t You Heard About a Nightclub Called the Nice Nice?

by Miles Raymer December 10, 2009August 19, 2021

The new Lifter Puller reissues, this week in Sharp Darts

Posted inBlogs

Jamlady speaks up: “Jamlady is not crazy”

by Daniel Shumski July 21, 2009August 19, 2021

A few weeks ago, I reviewed The Jamlady Cookbook, a canning guide and recipe collection written entirely in the third person. You can read the review here, or I can summarize it for you: Jamlady is (possibly) crazy. About a week later, I got an e-mail with a Jamlady return address. You could have knocked […]

Posted inBlogs

Jamlady, meet Christine Ferber

by Daniel Shumski July 13, 2009August 19, 2021

Three jam cookbooks: One comes highly recommended. One is a sturdy supplement to a classic. And one may drive you to the brink.

Posted inBlogs

New restaurant reviews this week: a glut of upscale Mex

by Mike Sula June 18, 2009August 19, 2021

Can Chicago really support five more tablecloth Mexican restaurants?

Posted inBlogs

Notes on a promo stack

by Miles Raymer January 30, 2009August 19, 2021

Ronnie Milsap, the Whip, Gentleman Reg, and the NCIS soundtrack: it’s promo pile day.

Posted inBlogs

Desk Quest II: The Deskening

by Miles Raymer November 20, 2008August 19, 2021

More reviews from the promo pile

Posted inBlogs

Tuesday Release Roundup

by Miles Raymer September 19, 2006August 19, 2021

New releases 9/19: Ben Kweller makes his family-man record, and Mosquitos score with a Neil Young cover.

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