Plus: The Backyard Film & Music Fest moves indoors, and Schubas hosts a record fair with pork on the side
Tag: Vol. 41 No. 1
Issue of Sep. 29 – Oct. 5, 2011
Culture Vultures: 80s music nostalgia and novels, graphic and otherwise
In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they’re watching, reading, and seeing
Kevin Junior needs help with his heart
The Chamber Strings front man is having a little trouble with his medical bills. Plus: New recordings from My Gold Mask, Mike Kinsella solo project Owen, Zelienople drummer Mike Weis, and more
The last big bang
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory looks at life after the Tevatron, its giant particle collider, while farmers look back on a prairie that used to be theirs
Chicago Artists Month touts 200+ events
Thirty-one days of city-sponsored art events
What’s next for Fermilab?
Neutrinos, they are very small,” wrote John Updike at the beginning of a 1960 poem, “Cosmic Gall.” “They have no charge and have no mass / And do not interact at all.” At least one of those facts has since been disproved: it was recently discovered that neutrinos have a bit of mass. But they […]
Cancer is better funny than mawkish
50/50 plays cancer for laughs; Restless is Stage IV stupid.
Getting over not being able to climax
Also: What to do in the wake of Jamey Rodemeyer’s suicide.
At Barn & Company, it’s all about the meat
At Lincoln Park’s Barn & Company, it’s all about the meat.
Your chance to play at being Heidi Klum
The Chicago History Museum hosts a design competition.
Fashion Focus announces supporting events
There’s a full schedule of pop-up shops, designer presentations, and more.