What to see on Friday at Lollapalooza 2013
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 45
Issue of Aug. 1 – 7, 2013
Posted inMusic
Saturday: Lollapalooza 2013 according to Reader writers
What to see on Saturday at Lollapalooza 2013
Posted inBlogs
12 O’Clock Track: Freddie Gibbs and Madlib’s frenetic “City”
Surprise—even the songs that didn’t make it onto Freddie Gibbs and Madlib’s upcoming Cocaine Piñata are great.
Posted inBlogs
Meigs Field II—the City Council very quietly passes Mayor Rahm’s DePaul basketball arena deal
Shame on Chicago: the City Council sneaks through a land deal, taking tens of millions of dollars from our dead-broke schools.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Thu 8/1: Sunshine Daydream, Marc Maron, and Circles
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, August 1
Posted inColumns & Opinion
When to leak the diaper fetish
Dan advises a lad with a nappie fetish and a lady with a lad problem.
Posted inArts & Culture
A portrait of the artists (OK, that might be a stretch) as 18-year-old porno directors
A portrait of the artists (OK, that might be a stretch) as 18-year-old porno directors
Posted inBlogs
Have you engaged in a national conversation lately?
National conversations. Helpful? Waste of time? Debate
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Soundcheck: Wrekmeister Harmonies’ performance at the Bohemian National Cemetery
Last month we trekked out to the Bohemian National Cemetery to interview J.R. Robinson as he prepared to perform under the light of the supermoon—and we captured footage of the set to boot.
Posted inBlogs
Street View 111: If you’re seeking style at Wicker Park Fest
Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 111
Posted inFilm
In Blue Jasmine, the song remains the same
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s latest, is too enamored of the affluent to be anything but tone deaf.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Piya Tu Ab To Aaja,” wild Indian brass-band music from Jaipur Kawa
The wild and woolly sound of Rajasthan’s Jaipur Kawa Brass Band
Posted inArts & Culture
Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada
Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada.
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about Samuel Beckett, Cardinal Francis George, and an infamous checkpoint in Texas?
Also China’s visit-your-aging-parents law, the cronut, the perils of bouncing a check, and the “nearly finished” time machine?