Empty Bowls, the history of Chicago cuisine a la Berghoff’s, cooking demos at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show, and more.
Tag: Vol. 39 No. 23
Issue of Feb. 25 – Mar. 3, 2010
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Morning Art: Annie Heckman
Part of “You Thought That You Were Alone But I Caught Your Bullet Just in Time,” on display at the International Museum of Surgical Science
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Memorials for Effie Mihopoulos
Memorial services for Effie Mihopoulos Friday and Saturday, 3/5 and 3/6
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Robert Beatty’s New Noise
Sound artist Robert Beatty (of Hair Police) performs solo and collaborates with experimental animator Takeshi Murata at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Thursday.
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The 2010 One Book, One Chicago Pick Is . . .
Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is the selection for the Chicago Public Library’s 2010 One Book, One Chicago citywide book club reading program.
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“I Wonder If This Will Work”
The latest experiment in online payment models comes from Roger Ebert himself. I suspect it will work pretty well, even if I have a slight bias, having said many times that the best way to monetize something is to have it be something awesome that people really want and can’t get elsewhere. Having that be […]
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Reader Contributors Hit the Road
Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.
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David Wilcox on the R-Word On the Air
If you haven’t read David Wilcox’s essay on the R-word, Rahm Emanuel, and Sarah Palin, I highly recommend it; if you have, I also recommend his This American Life piece on the tape his dying mother made for his mentally retarded sister. It’s not for the faint of emotion. Wilcox also discussed the piece with […]
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Italy in Chicago
We may have lost out on the Olympics, but Italian fashion says si to Chicago.
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The Albini Files: Surfer Rosa
I’m fascinated by engineers like Steve Albini (and his mentor, Iain Burgess), because the craft of the music engineer remains a beautiful mystery to me, as someone who loves music but only dimly understands the means of production. Which is why I’ve been geeking out this morning about an excerpt from Fool the World: The […]