What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, April 17
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 30
Issue of Apr. 17 – 23, 2014
Posted inMusic
The Secret History of Chicago Music: The Cave Dwellers
The Cave Dwellers never opened for the Beatles—but they did release a ripping single that still sounds great today.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Handling your boyfriend’s jealous assholery
Dan on taming an asshole of a jealous boyfriend, being enough of a man (but not a woman), and recalibrating a ho-hum life in the bedroom.
Posted inBlogs
Mayor Rahm’s TIF reform with strings attached
It’s important to remember that when it comes to the TIF surplus, Mayor Rahm gives to the schools with one hand and takes with the other.
Posted inBlogs
From Mamma Roma to Mamma Alien
On the perverse spectacle of seeing movie stars interact with casts of unknowns
Posted inBlogs
Say good-bye to tax season with the Guys’ debut mixtape
The new Chicago rap duo dropped IG: We the Guys days before taxes were due.
Posted inBlogs
Best of Chicago 2014 voting is now open almost over!
May 12 is Monday, and that’s when all votes are final.
Posted inBlogs
12 O’Clock Track: ‘Where I Am,’ a soulful country-bluegrass gem from Chris Jones
The bluegrass singer gives a rare local performance Saturday night at an Evanston VFW hall.
Posted inArts & Culture
Laugh along with Job in The Way West
In The Way West, Steppenwolf satirizes (and sings about) manifest destiny and the American dream.
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about guns, the Red Line, and newspaper reporters?
Also oligarchies, the CME, cell phones in planes, music-streaming services, Murder Dog, and a three-year-old boy in a claw machine?
Posted inBlogs
End of the road for The Red Road?
The SundanceTV series completed its six-episode run—will it be back?
Posted inBlogs
Writers Theatre does The Dance of Death
Conor McPherson calls Strindberg’s tune in a new adapation of The Dance of Death, now at Writers Theatre.
Posted inBlogs
Gig poster of the week: Everyone is hungry for records this weekend (including a crazed Mickey)
This week’s gig poster was created by designer Chema Skandal.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Wed 4/16: Riff Raff, the Nexus Project, and Anna Blessing
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, April 16
Posted inMusic
How do record stores get such great used vinyl?
When record stores aren’t buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show.