Italian masters Paolo and Vittorio Taviani document a prison production of Julius Caesar.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 26
Issue of Mar. 21 – 27, 2013
Zoom in: Evanston
Northwestern’s old Patten Gymnasium was the site of the first-ever NCAA tournament championship.
Has anybody ever stuffed a gerbil up his ass?
Vintage Savage Love: On “gerbil stuffing”
Shakespeare goes to Gotham City
The Goodman achieves a half measure of success in dark, unruly Measure for Measure.
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jim Cuomo
Saxophonist and composer Jim Cuomo played experimental psych with Spoils of War and acid folk with Mormos, and now writes for an Australian brass band.
Our guide to the final week of the European Union Film Festival
European Union Film Festival heads toward the finish line
Show us your . . . BDSM dungeon
The Leather Rose Association shows us its spanking bench, standing steel cage, and other bondage furniture.
To those Lane Tech kids protesting the purging of Persepolis
It isn’t even the worst of the Emanuel administration’s sins.
Alliance Francaise to screen several new Francophone films, some of them for free
Previewing a five-film series at Chicago’s French language and culture center
Was Jonylah Watkins the victim of segregation-related violence?
A baby is fatally shot in Woodlawn. Police blame gangs—but are they the real culprit?
Why didn’t Chicago dailies identify the driver of a fatal crash?
Supposedly, it’s because they were waiting for him to be charged first.
12 O’Clock Track: “Músico,” a slice of sensual Brazilian pop by Lucas Santtana
One of many dazzling songs from the latest album from the polymath Brazilian songwriter and producer
Did you read about journalism, Alfred Hitchcock, and March Madness?
Also low-level pot possession, Westboro Baptist, Jerusalem soccer teams, Arthur Koestler, the “terms of service” button, and romance novels?
Why South By?
Given that South by Southwest’s influence is on the wane, should upstart bands still bother playing the festival?