With 32 acts at 11 venues, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival paints a portrait of the Chicago scene.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 1
Issue of Sep. 26 – Oct. 2, 2013
Reader’s Agenda Thu 9/26: Filter Photo Festival, The North China Lover, and the XX
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, September 26
Terrible person wonders why he can’t get a date
Dan on the particular dating challenges faced by major jerks, a girlfriend with a missing clitoris, and more
Show us your . . . roaming face-painting cart
Show us your . . . roaming face-painting cart
Aged to perfection at the Berkshire Room
Under the direction of Ben Schiller, the bar on the first floor of the Acme Hotel unveils a splendid drinks program.
Mayor Rahm finds $92 million for his South Loop deal
Just when you thought the city and schools were broke, Mayor Rahm digs into the TIF slush fund for his South Loop hotel/DePaul basketball arena fiasco.
There’s just one Lost Generation, but several others are being misplaced
Is journalism “losing a generation” a little too frequently for its own good?
The knotty, transformational solo guitar practice of Eric Hofbauer
Boston guitarist Eric Hofbauer brings his attractively gnarled, elliptical improvisational style to Elastic on Thursday
Today in Drake-related mixtapes
On Don’t Care local rapper-producer Rashid Hadee chops up Drake’s Take Care to create songs even those who don’t particularly like Drake can dig into.
Where’s the love for filmmaker (and honorary Chicagoan) Hong Sang-soo?
Chicago’s still missing out on the films of acclaimed South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo.
A National Punctuation Day postscript
A punctuation free period in belated honor of our essential characters
Chicago Opera Theater’s controversial Joan of Arc burns on
A play-within-a-play presentation of the early Verdi opera inflames the critics.
12 O’Clock Track: “Zivot Cigana,” a blast of Balkan brass from Boban and Marko Markovic
A brassy burner from the forthcoming album Gipsy Manifesto
Did you read about Ted Cruz, Popular Science, and Jeff Bezos?
Also fingerprint protection on iPhones, Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Ampelmänchenn, a closeted lesbian Hasid, Burger King’s “Satisfries,” and a Chipotle-style pizza chain?