Italian masters Paolo and Vittorio Taviani document a prison production of Julius Caesar.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 26
Issue of Mar. 21 – 27, 2013
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Has anybody ever stuffed a gerbil up his ass?
Vintage Savage Love: On “gerbil stuffing”
Posted inArts & Culture
Shakespeare goes to Gotham City
The Goodman achieves a half measure of success in dark, unruly Measure for Measure.
Posted inMusic
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.
Posted inNews & Politics
Zoom in: Evanston
Northwestern’s old Patten Gymnasium was the site of the first-ever NCAA tournament championship.
Posted inFilm
Our guide to the final week of the European Union Film Festival
European Union Film Festival heads toward the finish line
Posted inArts & Culture
Show us your . . . BDSM dungeon
The Leather Rose Association shows us its spanking bench, standing steel cage, and other bondage furniture.
Posted inBlogs
To those Lane Tech kids protesting the purging of Persepolis
It isn’t even the worst of the Emanuel administration’s sins.
Posted inBlogs
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
Posted inNews & Politics
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?
Posted inBlogs
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.
Posted inBlogs
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
Posted inBlogs
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?
Posted inMusic
Why South By?
Given that South by Southwest’s influence is on the wane, should upstart bands still bother playing the festival?