French classicism meets midwestern produce in Next’s Bocuse d’Or menu.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 52
Issue of Sep. 19 – 25, 2013
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12 O’Clock Track: “Low Bow,” new music from Jim O’Rourke
The musician, now based in Tokyo, contributes a new composition to the forthcoming compilation Air Texture Volume III.
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Did you read about Bill Daley, Milwaukee, and Svengoolie?
Also government shutdown, frogs in space, the CPD’s gun warehouse, Miss America, and a philosophical fistfight?
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Experimental trio Good Stuff House almost reunites
The Zelienople side project almost gets back together to play its first show in four years as its eponymous 2006 debut gets reissued.
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“The Distance Between”: Longer in the rain
Weather marred the opening of the University of Chicago Logan Center/Arts Incubator show “The Distance Between.”
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 9/17: Fried chicken, Strfkr, and a panel discussion
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, September 17.
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Mayor Rahm: The mayor for some of us
Kari Lydersen’s new book explains how Emanuel earned the nickname “Mayor 1 Percent.”
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Ray Smith at the crossroads
A retrospective at Mana Contemporary finds the Mexican-American artist Ray Smith between themes, tropes, and traditions.
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The Swimmer and other movies that ask “who is that?”
Noting a few ways that filmmakers can defamiliarize the presence of actors
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Know your thit heo from your turon with help from a new street food encyclopedia
The hefty new Street Food Around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture features a host of well-traveled local contributors.
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Sunset Records’ house has many rooms
Kill Yourself Dancing collects the daringly eclectic output of late-80s Chicago house-music label Sunset Records.
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Riot Fest recap: Rain, the Replacements, and wrestling with nostalgia
Riot Fest’s nostalgia party ended with lots of rain and a ripping Replacements set, but the weekend had its forward-looking moments too.
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High-rise public housing might be gone from Chicago, but its residents remain
Public housing residents have their say in High Rise Stories, a new book of oral histories.
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12 O’Clock Track: Vintage Bad Religion keeps fresh on “I Want to Conquer the World”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is Bad Religion’s “I Want to Conquer the World.”