What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Thursday, April 11, 2013
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 29
Issue of Apr. 11 – 17, 2013
The Chicago Reader’s Key Ingredient Cook-Off
A Festival of Culinary Curiosities May 3, 2013 | 7-10 PM | Bridgeport Art Center | $65-$100 Join Chicago’s most celebrated chefs for an evening of exemplary and unusual culinary concoctions at our first annual Key Ingredient Cook-Off. Inspired by the Reader‘s James Beard Award-winning series, the Key Ingredient Cook-Off will see 26 chefs (from […]
Howard Goldblatt’s life in translation
Meet Howard Goldblatt, the premier English-language translator of contemporary Chinese fiction.
God loves fags
Dan, with an assist from an honest-to-god clergyman, on being Christian and gay.
BR5-49’s Chuck Mead rediscovers his sweet spot in classic honky-tonk
The former BR5-49 regains his bearings on Back at the Quonset Hut, a collection of hard-core country covers.
River Forest responds to the death of Anne Smedinghoff
A campaign to collect children’s books in the name of the recently deceased diplomat
Our guide to the Chicago Latino Film Festival
Our coverage of the Chicago Latino Film Festival
Springtime for poor people in Chicago
The “walk-the-walk” school-closing march—poor people never had it as good as they do in Mayor Emanuel’s Chicago.
Discover the parallel cinema of southwestern India—and one of its most respected directors
Previewing a three-day symposium at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center for the Arts
Fake Asian Rolex eludes the spam filter and steals my heart
Hilarious new powerviolence from France
Let Them Eat Chaos tastes a little bland
Let Them Eat Chaos, the new Second City revue, lacks wack.
Overwhelmed by Underneath the Lintel
First Folio’s Underneath the Lintel: Worth a little apostasy.
12 O’Clock Track: “Viene de Mi,” twangy Argentine cumbia from La Yegros
Argentine singer La Yegros brings a more traditional cumbia sound to ZKK Records.