A Belgian-style easy porch drinker brewed with monk fruit and soursop? Yes, please.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 41
Issue of Jul. 4 – 10, 2013
12 O’Clock Track: The crackling, noisy beats of Food for Animals’ “Bulk Gummies”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Bulk Gummies” from Food for Animals’ 2007 album Belly.
Karen Fraid: Unafraid to tell the truth about school “reform”
A Rogers Park mom and school blogger is not afraid to tell is like it is in her blog, That Way Madness Lies.
Reader’s Agenda Mon 7/8: Cartoons at the MCA, square dancing, and the best rock band in Chicago
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, July 8
Reader’s Agenda Sun 7/7: Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival, Bristol Renaissance Faire, and “AfriCOBRA: Prologue”
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, July 7
Reader’s Agenda Sat 7/6: Chosen Few House Picnic, North Michigan Avenue Art Festival, and Pocket Con
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, July 6
This week in tactile cinema: Monsters University and Stan Brakhage
The great avant-garde filmmaker and the Pixar animators use the technology at their disposal to create images you can practically touch; the similarities pretty much end there.
The devious psychology behind “free to play” video games
How “free” games separate players from their money
Delmark salvages a classic album from Roscoe Mitchell
Delmark Records’ acquisition of the Sackville label begins to bear fruit with the reissue of a classic Roscoe Mitchell album.
Curtis Sittenfeld talks about earthquakes, twins with psychic powers, and Sisterland
A novelist discusses her new novel and psychic predictions.
Zoom in: Ravenswood
We’re directed through the Truc Lam Buddhist Temple in Ravenswood by a handful of underage tour guides.
Show us your . . . Instagram-famous French bulldog
Manny has his own T-shirt line, and you don’t.
12 O’Clock Track: “You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack” is outsider-hip-hop brilliance
“You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack” by Viper is an excellent combination of oddball outsider art and Houston hip-hop.
Remembering Dick Mell (and what he was really doing up on that table)
Dick Mell was always good copy—in the Reader.