Rick Bayless Archives - Chicago Reader

Five white people in 1960s cocktail attire stand around a dining room table filled with appetizers. They are toasting with champagne.

Windy City Playhouse goes on the market

by Kerry Reid May 12, 2023May 11, 2023

When Windy City Playhouse first opened on Irving Park Road in 2015, the company won nearly as much attention for its comfortable audience perks (swivel seats and food and beverage service, like a luxe movie theater) as it did for its programming, which for the most part focused on contemporary plays like Deborah Zoe Laufer’s […]

Agenda

Breathless, CPL Foundation Awards, Fortune at the Hideout

by Micco Caporale and Salem Collo-Julin October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Pioneering French-Swiss film director, writer, and critic Jean-Luc Godard passed away in September, and the Gene Siskel Film Center swiftly put together Au Revoir, Godard, a presentation of three Godard-directed favorites from his 60s work. Tonight’s feature, 1960’s À bout de souffle (which literally translates from French as “out of breath”) is more commonly known […]

Stacks of heirloom blue and yellow corn tortillas

Food & Drink

The best tortillas are made with Michigan (and Mexican) corn

by Mike Sula March 3, 2022March 3, 2022

When Aaron Harris’s wife adopted a gluten-free diet he had to start from scratch when it came to tacos. He was raised on his grandmother’s homemade flour tortillas, and she was raised in Chihuahua, where wheat supersedes corn. “She and my mom would make big stacks of flour tortillas, and we would eat those with […]

Theater Review

In the weeds with Rick Bayless and Windy City Playhouse

by Irene Hsiao October 21, 2021February 17, 2022

It’s #influencernight at the Contumacious Pig restaurant, and if you’re on payroll at a restaurant or an Instagrammer with 5,000 or more followers, you know what that means. If not, read on. The scene is the aforesaid purveyor of pork (and sundry sides), the night the amateur eaters are afoot, the head chef has doffed […]