The venerable indie filmmaker returns to Chicago this Thursday.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 33
Issue of May. 9 – 15, 2013
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The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work
The Bodies of Work Festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and in the audience.
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Iraqi maqam master Hamid Al-Saadi on a screen near you
Episodes of the new WYCC music show Musicology: Live From the Old Town School of Folk Music are now available on YouTube
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Facebook continues its brave war on vaginas
Yet another image of the female body removed for being “pornographic”
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Audrey Niffenegger’s trans-species fairy tale
Audrey Niffenegger’s lovely new Raven Girl is a trans-species fairy tale.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Narrative synth prog” from Michigan’s Mounds
“New Bridge” by Michigan synth-prog band Mounds, who open for Black Pus tonight at the Empty Bottle
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Coming soon to the Sun-Times—the Reader
The Sun-Times shutters its Weekend section, launches Agenda.
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Rick Cluchey performs a bunch of Krapp by Samuel Beckett
Rick Cluchey stars in Samuel Beckett’s one-man one-act Krapp’s Last Tape.
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Did you read about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, NPR reporters, and William Burroughs?
Also three kidnapped girls in Cleveland, government efficiency, the Best Little Boy in the World, New York Times corrections, and Antonia Larroux’s death notice?
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Doc Films begins a two-part program of recent Indian documentaries
Previewing two free programs at the University of Chicago film society this month
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Hashing over memories of potatoes past at Hash
The new Wicker Park restaurant serves a facsimile of grad-school subsistence fare.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 5/7: Ian Svenonius, Keith Koeneman and Neil Steinberg in conversation, and Jared Logan
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, May 7.
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“In Metamorphosis” and outside of time
“In Metamorphosis,” featuring the work of Vivian van Blerk and Douglas Stapleton, looks at archetypes over time.
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The Ming Mecca finally unites synth geeks and video game hackers
Now you can generate video games from your analog synth setup.