Tag: Vol. 37 No. 40

SPORTS & RECREATION Best Pro Team Reader’s Choice: Cubs Chicago’s best pro team is—dare I even suggest it, much less insist upon it?—the Cubs. By process of elimination alone, they’re instant contenders. The White Sox have frayed since their 2005 World Series victory, and the Bears have collapsed since making the Super Bowl a year […]

MUSIC Best Rock or Pop Act Reader’s Choice: The Eternals It’s not their stylish melange of burn-down-Babylon reggae, hardcore punk, and a globe-spanning collection of regional groove styles that makes the Eternals the best band in town. And it’s not the eloquent postmillennial urban paranoia of Damon Locks’s lyrics that does it either. It’s the […]

THEATER Best Theater Reader’s Choice: The Neo-Futurists There are larger local companies, and god knows there are local companies that are financially better endowed, but none more completely embraces the DIY spirit that first put Chicago theater on the map than the Neo-Futurists. And come December, they’ll have been at it for 20 years. All […]