Also “the austerity dance,” sex offenders running for public office in India, and the best long-form writing of the year?
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 15
Issue of Jan. 3 – 9, 2013
The best, the worst, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
My Best of 2012 Spotify playlist—five hours of the year’s most pleasure-inducing music
Where else can you hear ZZ Top’s “I Gotsta Get Paid” and E-40’s “I’m Laced” in the same place?
Reader’s Agenda, Fri 12/28: Creative Control, Shlohmo, and Danny Tanner reimagined as a psychotic murderer
What’s on the Agenda for Friday, December 28, 2012
Wholly good at Half Italian
Simplest is best at this Logan Square grocery store and deli
Getting by in four recent American comedies
Comparing Bernie, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, and Silver Linings Playbook in terms of style and themes
Cocktail Challenge: falernum
Rodan’s Eric Chaleff soothes his flu with falernum
Another evolution: President Obama and Mayor Rahm take a stand
President Obama slowly starts another one of his famous evolutions—on marijuana reform and gun control—just in time for the shifts in the polls
A career highlight of soul and gospel singer Fontella Bass
The great soul and gospel singer Fontella Bass is dead at 72
Did you read about parking-fare increases, a whale in Queens, and Pitchfork’s new “online destination”?
Also Tribune dropping AP, Joshua Foer’s New Yorker story, and Peter Parker?
In Rotation: Vocalo’s Jesse Menendez on the Internet Radio Fairness Act
Current musical obsessions of Vocalo’s Jesse Menendez and Richard Giraldi of Loud Loop Press
The Fillet of Solo festival is back
The Fillet of Solo storytelling festival is back