Everything old is new again—especially when everything new is old.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 26
Issue of Mar. 20 – 26, 2014
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Thu 3/20: Literary Rock and Roll, High School Hockey Championships, and Queenie Pie
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, March 20
Posted inMusic
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Ernest “Little Son Joe” Lawlers
Bluesman Ernest “Little Son Joe” Lawlers was overshadowed by his wife, the great Memphis Minnie, but you might remember his “Black Rat Swing.”
Posted inFood & Drink
So an indie video-game designer walks into an arcade bar . . .
In light of the recent flurry of arcade bar openings, we handed a pair of indie video-game designers a fistful of change and set them loose.
Posted inMusic
An oral history of the Green Mill
The Green Mill has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
Posted inFood & Drink
We handpicked 30 of our favorite bars, by neighborhood
We handpicked 30 of our favorite bars, by neighborhood
Posted inColumns & Opinion
An erotic profile, plus Pokemon
Dan on Pokemon fetishism, spanking porn, and getting back at your sanctimonious mother.
Posted inFood & Drink
Distilleries are on the rise in Chicago
The past few years have seen an explosive growth of distilleries in Chicago. Has the city already reached its saturation point?
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Mayor Rahm loses in primary election!
Look on the bright side, Chicago—in Tuesday’s primary, voters showed their utter disgust with Mayor Rahm’s policies. In a roundabout way.
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March Madness for book nerds
The Morning News Tournament of Books posts a deceptively simple question: How do we choose what we read?
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Chandler London’s star trek
The Chicago rapper just set a course for the hip-hop heavens with his new EP, Ritchie: A Space Odyssey.
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The great Luis Tosar continues to impress in Operation E
The Colombian-set docudrama screens again tomorrow as part of the European Union Film Festival.
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Restaurants in running for Beards, media not so much
The James Beard Foundation Awards announcements yesterday showed a scene that’s strong on one side, not very strong on the other.
Posted inArts & Culture
Love hurts in Goodman’s Venus in Fur
David Ives deliciously satirizes the novel that gave us S-M in Goodman’s Venus in Fur.