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Home » Vol. 42 No. 27

Tag: Vol. 42 No. 27

Issue of Mar. 28 – Apr. 3, 2013

Reclaimed building materials at Rebuilding Exchange
Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Hannah Lorenz and Hannah Gold March 28, 2013August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend the Rebuilding Exchange, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and more.

Thora Birch
Posted inArts & Culture

In Chicago, comics do it by the seat of their pants

by Jena Cutie March 28, 2013August 19, 2021

No fooling: The 16th annual Chicago Improv Festival kicks off April 1.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Thu 3/28: L.A. Rebellion, Mixologist Mashup, Neal Brennan

by Drew Hunt March 28, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Thursday, March 28, 2013

Bob’s Burgers
Posted inMusic

In Rotation: Sean Rose of Collector’s Edition on Wilco skydiving

by Leor Galil March 28, 2013August 19, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Jeremy D. Larson from Consequence of Sound, and Sean Rose of Collector’s Edition

Posted inOther Stuff

Code of Silence

by Ben Tausig March 28, 2013August 19, 2021

Solution

Working girl
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Sister as surrogate sex solicitor?

by Dan Savage March 28, 2013August 19, 2021

Dan on sibling sex solicitation, uncharacteristic attraction, and doing BDSM wrong to get it right.

Demetri Martin
Posted inArts & Culture

Point your face at Demetri Martin

by Kevin Warwick March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

The comic Demetri Martin pays a visit—a pad of paper under one arm, an acoustic guitar under the other.

Posted inBlogs

Andrew Brochu alights at the Monarch

by Mike Sula March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

The itinerant chef returns to high-caliber bar food.

Posted inBlogs

Mad Men, Mad World—live!

by Aimee Levitt March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

The Chicago Humanities Festival hosted a panel discussion by the editors of the book Mad Men, Mad World.

Daisy Maass, an eighth grader at Skinner West, with her mother, Marlene Martin. Daisy opted out of standardized tests this year.
Posted inNews & Politics

Standardized testing overkill at CPS

by Steve Bogira March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

Even Chicago school officials allow that they’re giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?

Posted inBlogs

Chicago’s black voters wake up with a Mayor Rahm hangover

by Ben Joravsky March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

Black voters in Chicago are realizing that the policies of Mayor Emanuel are not quite what they voted for.

Carlos Cruz and Henry Godinez
Posted inArts & Culture

In Pedro Páramo, magic realism isn’t hocus-pocus

by Tony Adler March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

Cuba’s Teatro Buendía adapts the landmark Mexican novel Pedro Páramo for the Latino Theatre Festival.

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: The beautifully meditative Afro-jazz of Johnny Dyani’s “Magwaza”

by Peter Margasak March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

A slice of soulful, meditative beauty from the great South African bassist Johnny Dyani

Reality
Posted inFilm

Reality sucks, but not Reality

by J.R. Jones March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

Matteo Garrone’s Reality is a tale of fame and misfortune.

As Above So Below
Posted inFilm

Return of the L.A. Rebellion

by J.R. Jones March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

A citywide series revisits the L.A. Rebellion.

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