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Tag: Vol. 42 No. 46
Issue of Aug. 8 – 14, 2013
Street View 112: Streetwear with a flair at Grant Park Music Festival
Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 112
Reader’s Agenda Thu 8/8: Comic Con, Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, and the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, August 8
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Emmett “Maestro” Sanders
Emmett “Maestro” Sanders was a huge figure in Peoria blues, but died unheralded this spring—in part because he only ever released one single.
How to handle little brother’s asshole boyfriend
Dan advises three sets of brothers.
Sebastian Cordero’s Europa Report, nearly lost in orbit, touches down in Chicago on Friday
Previewing the talented Ecuadoran director’s English-language debut, an old-school sci-fi movie set in space
Seinfeld in a car, doing what he pleases
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is mostly Jerry Seinfeld driving vintage cars and living the life. And we should all be fine with that.
The passion of the fruit: 5 Lizard and Wailua Wheat beer
Two passion fruit beers exhibit their lack of similarity.
Mayor Rahm gives Cubs a tax break—team says thanks by losing five games in a row
Mayor Emanuel gives the Cubs a property tax break as the team battles Milwaukee for last place.
Yippie! Abbie Hoffman fest returns
More than 150 performance groups grace the 25th year of Mary Arrchie’s Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival.
“The Hitchcock 9” presents the silent-era works, loud and clear
The Music Box screens “The Hitchcock 9,” the master’s silent films, newly restored.
At last, the cronut, er, doughssant
The cronut craze turns out to be the pastry version of the emperor’s new clothes.
Getting deeper into local rap collective Outsiders with Wteve Baker’s “Gary’s Mod”
Lucki Ecks isn’t the only member of Outsiders Clique pushing rap in strange and fascinating directions.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery celebrates the closing of “The 112 Greene Street Years” tonight
The life and happy death of a gallery show