What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, December 11
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 12
Issue of Dec. 12 – 18, 2013
Posted inMusic
Gossip Wolf: Czar rules (on a new album)
Czar rules (on a new album), one-man synth project Potions throws a release party, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Valerie Williams creates an A/V experience
Dancers interact with real-time recordings of themselves in a mixed-media work by Co’Motion Dance Theater.
Posted inFilm
Kathleen Hanna: Grrrl interrupted
The Punk Singer profiles a feminist rocker who walked away.
Posted inBlogs
Street View 151: Winter bloom at the MCA’s First Friday
Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 151
Posted inColumns & Opinion
In Kiev and across Ukraine, a bitter history plays out
A permanent collection at Chicago’s Ukrainian National Museum sheds light on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Here’s the latest proposal to spend TIF money in an area that doesn’t need it
Here’s the latest proposal to spend TIF money in an area that doesn’t need it.
Posted inBlogs
Jazz guitar great Jim Hall dead at 83
The guitarist was one of jazz’s most versatile, empathetic players.
Posted inBlogs
Living with kale and Medicare
The writer must live with liver disease, but won’t be forced to eat kale.
Posted inBlogs
Now on DVD: Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan as the most adorable assassins you’ll ever meet
Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut of Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, is now available at Redbox.
Posted inBlogs
12 O’Clock Track: In honor of Rough Trade coming stateside, Young Marble Giants’ “Salad Days”
A highlight from the band’s only album, Colossal Youth
Posted inFood & Drink
Cocktail Challenge: Truffle oil
Wade McElroy of the Sportsman’s Club crafts a truffle-oil pousse-cafe that passes the taste test.
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about a “super” cockroaches, The Sound of Music, and Super Bowl XLVIII?
Also Chicago violence, state surveillance, a newly formed union, Dmitry Kiselev, and Stephen Sondheim?
Posted inBlogs
Bears crush Cowboys
Alshon Jeffery’s dazzling touchdown grab highlights a Bears win over the Cowboys.