Is a traditional Thai noodle soup really seasoned with marijuana?
Tag: Vol. 41 No. 11
Issue of Dec. 8 – 14, 2011
Newt Gingrich’s Earning by Learning
Past efforts to pay kids by the Republican presidential candidate
Best of 2011, number 7: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Our year-end review continues with Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
Mike Reed’s PPT closes out the tenth year of Sunday Transmissions
Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things plays the final concert in the yearlong tenth-anniversary celebration of the Sunday Transmission series at the Hungry Brain.
Why are blacks busted more often for pot?
Illegal searches play a leading role in the racial imbalance.
Rejection versus suppression
Katharine Hayhoe’s message of climate change is doubted by conservative Christians but not shunned.
Fashionable events
A milestone for a beloved boutique, holiday shopping galore, vintage sales, and more.
A world without Dime
Today is the seven-year anniversary of guitarist Dimebag Darrell’s murder.
Best of 2011, number 8: The Wise Kids
J.R. Jones on The Wise Kids, his number 8 movie of 2011.
This week on the B Side
Tim Daisy chats with Roy Haynes, Bon Iver heads to the Grammys, and more.
Andy Warhol’s Empire screens outdoors
The Art Institute projects Andy Warhol’s eight-hour film Empire onto the side of the Aon Center on Friday night.
Now playing: Mad Love at Chicago Filmmakers
A review of Mad Love, a collection of recent American shorts playing at Chicago Filmmakers.
Two-sided psych from Woods at Subterranean
Upstate New York band Woods, who balance 60s-flavored psych-pop with wiggy instrumental Krautock, play Subterranean on Saturday.