Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave tells of a free northerner taken into bondage.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 4
Issue of Oct. 17 – 23, 2013
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What to eat during the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Open House Chicago
Get hungry checking out the architecture and neighborhoods at Open House Chicago this weekend.
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Before Chief Keef went to jail he released a new mixtape
This is a reminder that the infamous 18-year-old Chicago MC who makes the news for getting in trouble also makes music—his brand new Almighty So proves it.
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12 O’Clock Track: concise, stormy postpunk from the Martha’s Vineyard Ferries
The indie-rock trio conducts yet another lesson on how to do it right.
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Did you read about Republicans in Congress, Hans Riegel, and telephone buttons?
Also a Supreme Court case, the best-known books in every state, Fukuppy, and David Byrne on the Internet?
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From countercultural childhood to creative writing instructor
Kelly Daniels’s memoir chronicles a life following a most unusual upbringing
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Gig poster of the week: Brokeback’s mountain landscape
This week’s poster was designed and printed by Daniel MacAdam of Crosshair Silkscreen Design.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 10/16: Hey, I’m a Big Fan, Bedroom Sons, and the Jazz Art Record Collective
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, October 16
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David Plowden sheds light on the midwestern prairie
In an austere new collection, Heartland, photographer David Plowden celebrates the plain—and the plains.
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La Bayadere: Love! Valour! Snakebite!
The Joffrey Ballet stages Marius Petipa’s tragic romance La Bayadere.
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Weekend evenings of the living dead (and one midnight show)
Our critics take on seven spooky shows, from creepy Jane Austen to nuclear zombies.
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The Side Project celebrates “The Kindness of Strangers”
“The Kindness of Strangers” is the theme of Side Project Theatre Company’s second storytelling festival.
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At CIFF: Suzanne and the slow, steady progress of director Katell Quillévéré
Thoughts on the French director’s second feature, playing in this year’s Chicago International Film Festival
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The activist-doctor Quentin Young is still in
A new film project tries to capture the life of physician and activist Quentin Young.
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Lorde is dominating everything and that’s great
“Royals” and Pure Heroine begin a glorious reign over the pop charts.