What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Thursday, April 11, 2013
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 29
Issue of Apr. 11 – 17, 2013
Posted inFood & Drink
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 […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Howard Goldblatt’s life in translation
Meet Howard Goldblatt, the premier English-language translator of contemporary Chinese fiction.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
God loves fags
Dan, with an assist from an honest-to-god clergyman, on being Christian and gay.
Posted inBlogs
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.
Posted inBlogs
River Forest responds to the death of Anne Smedinghoff
A campaign to collect children’s books in the name of the recently deceased diplomat
Posted inFilm
Our guide to the Chicago Latino Film Festival
Our coverage of the Chicago Latino Film Festival
Posted inBlogs
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.
Posted inBlogs
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
Posted inBlogs
Fake Asian Rolex eludes the spam filter and steals my heart
Hilarious new powerviolence from France
Posted inBlogs
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.
Posted inArts & Culture
Let Them Eat Chaos tastes a little bland
Let Them Eat Chaos, the new Second City revue, lacks wack.
Posted inArts & Culture
Overwhelmed by Underneath the Lintel
First Folio’s Underneath the Lintel: Worth a little apostasy.