T he Reader has covered food and restaurants in Chicago throughout its half-century existence, though not nearly as consistently or comprehensively as music, film, drama, or most of the other arts—certainly not every week when I came on as a starving editorial assistant way back in ’95. Back then there was a very occasional visual […]
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Posted inMusic
Pedro Bell made art to embody Funkadelic’s revolutionary grooves
The underappreciated genius behind many of Funkadelic’s most famous album covers died last month after nine years in a nursing and rehab center.
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One nation under pizza: Andrew W.K. brings the political ‘Party’ to the Pizza Summit
The Pizza Summit in Wicker Park felt like an Internet meme turned beer ad. And then Andrew W.K. came to save it.
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Revisiting the Brooklyn bank robbery that inspired Dog Day Afternoon
The Dog tells the sad story of a man trapped by his criminal past.
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Foxy Shazam and the Accidentally Racist Single
Rock revivalists accidentally revive an icky part of rock’s past
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12 O’Clock Track: Lotion, “Rock Chick”
Remember Lotion, Thomas Pynchon’s favorite band? Who shoulda, coulda made it, like their 90s contemporaries Archers of Loaf?
Posted inNews & Politics
Tom Rehwaldt, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader’s early days
‘He scoffed and assured me that my paper was nothing like the Village Voice. He was right.’
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Better than a Silver Bullet
A bootleg compilation proves that Bob Seger made his greatest music before he got famous.
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Time Out Shines a Light on the Underground; the Underground Does Not Approve
On the blowing up of spots, aka What Not to Publicize
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Asthmatic Kitty’s Love/Hate Thing With Amazon
What may be behind the indie label’s attempts to steer you away from a three-dollar record.
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The Stages of Grief: Love King Edition
A social-networking service mourns the marriage of The-Dream and Christina Milian.
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Thus Spake Robert Sietsema . . .
Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema weighs in at the Columbia Review of Journalism on the need for pro reviewers.