Dave Beran talks about the next season for Next—and what the Childhood menu was originally going to be.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 52
Issue of Sep. 19 – 25, 2013
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When to pull the plug—or should we ever?
Stephen Hawking slammed for changing his view on assisted suicide
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 9/19: Expo Chicago, Englewood Jazz Festival, and Miguel Zenon
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, September 19
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Mr. Lee & the Rearrangers Band
Mr. Lee & the Rearrangers Band are credited on what Roctober‘s Jake Austen calls “perhaps the most bizarre 45 in Chicago history.”
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dads
When it became clear that every professional television critic who received an advance screener of the Dads pilot, Fox adopted nd while those early reviewers may have branded Dads “offensive” and “morally wrong,” these ordinary people “don’t see how you can be offended—you just laugh,” “don’t know what you’re talking about,” and proudly rebuke any […]
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What pairs well with beer? Hard alcohol.
Atlas Brewing’s Baskerville stout with Letherbee Malort; 5 Lizard beer with gin.
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Mayor Rahm holds a press conference—Alderman Sposato supplies the toilet paper
In his rush to hold press conferences to announce the construction of new schools, Mayor Rahm forgot one thing: He has no money to fund them.
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Reviewing the epic life of Chris Chandler, Chicago journalist
If you’re looking for Chris Chandler, seek the barricades.
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No stones, please: The Arts Club builds a glass room
And the organization seeks vintage-garbed volunteers to populate artist Josiah McElheny’s The Club for Modern Fashions.
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Replaying new cuts from Drake and Chicago’s Martin Sky
Drake’s anticipated third album leaked just days before local MC-producer Martin Sky dropped his debut mixtape, and both releases include beats that demand to be put on repeat.
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The solution to our federal budget woes
The deficit is in remission. That’s the good news.
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A former investigator of police misconduct on the questions she never asked
A former investigator of police misconduct tackles the questions she never asked.
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Soundcheck: Majical Cloudz open up at Schubas
We sit down with Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto, the masterminds behind Canadian electronic duo, to talk about life on the road and the group’s beginnings for our ongoing live-video series.
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The Old Man and the Old Moon and the New Innocence
Pigpen Theatre Company’s musical fable The Old Man and the Old Moon drowns in charm.