The wit’s missing from Miss Marx, Strawdog Theatre’s docudrama about the youngest daughter of Karl Marx.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 24
Issue of Mar. 6 – 12, 2014
Posted inArts & Culture
With Late Night at Garage Rep, Steppenwolf returns to its roots
Late Night at Garage Rep, Steppenwolf’s eclectic new weekly series, features up-and-coming Chicago artists.
Posted inMusic
Gossip Wolf: A radio remembrance of Da’s Lorna Donley
A radio remembrance of Da’s Lorna Donley, plus new music from MC the Buttress and scum punks Flesh Panthers
Posted inBlogs
Why are Russian forces in Ukraine?
Russia says it’s reacting to fascistic ultranationalism in Ukraine; historian Timothy Snyder says no.
Posted inBlogs
Evenhanded bias—a hard skill to master
Covering the Pistorius trial, the New York Daily News doesn’t try very hard to play it straight.
Posted inBlogs
Block Cinema wraps up film series commemorating 30s glamor and the popular front
Noting upcoming screenings of City Streets (1931) and Body and Soul (1947) at Northwestern University
Posted inBlogs
A taxonomy of snow
It’s not just the Eskimos who have lots of names for the white (or gray, or brown) stuff.
Posted inBlogs
Democrat Tio Hardiman wants you to know that he and his campaign for governor still exist
The longtime antiviolence activist vows to “shock the world” in the March 18 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Posted inBlogs
Reader exclusive: Album stream of Ono’s Diegesis
We’ve got the premiere of the oddball local art-rock group’s fourth album, which comes out next week on Moniker Records.
Posted inBlogs
12 O’Clock Track: “Frontin'” is still better than any song on the new Pharrell album
Pharrell’s G I R L is reintroducing the singer-producer to the masses, but he already made his mark more than a decade ago.
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about giant viruses, heated sidewalks, and the Detroit Red Wings?
Also Toni Preckwinkle, China’s one-child policy, a New Jersey student suing her parents, cheese, the Awl, Robert Ashley, Spritz, and normcore?