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Home » Vol. 43 No. 44

Tag: Vol. 43 No. 44

Issue of Jul. 24 – 30, 2014

Posted inBlogs

What horrible things are we doing to children who learn Bible stories?

by Michael Miner July 24, 2014August 18, 2021

A new study on religion raises the question: If kids have trouble with reality—so what?

Minimal’s conceptual sketches for load-carrying and integrated-lighting systems
Posted inArts & Culture

‘This is the bike for Chicago’

by Patrick Sisson July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

The worst winter in decades inspired a design firm and frame builder to fashion a bike tough enough for this town.

Posted inBlogs

One Bite: The B50 Burger at Chef’s Burger Bistro

by Aimee Levitt July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Children, this ain’t no Salisbury steak.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm doles out some goodies to Hyde Park and Kenwood

by Ben Joravsky July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

With an eye toward winning south-side votes, Mayor Rahm agrees to move the Kenwood Academic Center into the closed Canter school building.

Posted inBlogs

The Reader’s Joravsky and Dumke win Altgeld Award

by Michael Miner July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

The Newberry Library honors the reporting of Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke.

Posted inBlogs

Common comes home to a different Chicago on Nobody’s Smiling

by Leor Galil July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

On his tenth album the MC who helped put Chicago’s scene on the map delivers a grim, uneven, and occasionally compelling portrait of inner-city violence.

Posted inBlogs

Follow Will Cullen Hart of Circulatory System as he shops for records at Pitchfork

by Reader staff July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Will Cullen Hart talks about Sun Ra and Velvet Underground in Pitchfork’s record fair.

Posted inBlogs

Tomorrow night South Side Projections turns Co-Prosperity Sphere into a cathouse

by Ben Sachs July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Noting the south-side arts organization’s second annual program of cat-related experimental shorts

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: Wild Beasts’ striking and seething single ‘Wanderlust’

by Kevin Warwick July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Wanderlust,” the opener from the most recent Wild Beasts album, Present Tense.

Posted inBlogs

Did you read about William T. Vollmann, David Lynch, and the NFL?

by Reader staff July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Also colon-cancer cures, forgiveness, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and lionfish conservation?

Posted inBlogs

Reader premiere: Migration, the debut EP from singer Lykanthea

by Sasha Geffen July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

The latest project of Lakshmi Ramgopal, one of the members of darkwave duo Love & Radiation

Posted inBlogs

Why would Bruce Rauner want to buy the governor’s mansion?

by Steve Bogira July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

A shrewd businessman would know the leaky manor house is a fixer-upper.

Posted inBlogs

Gig poster of the week: Soul Summit’s a slam dunk

by Luca Cimarusti July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

This week’s gig poster was created by local designer Scott Williams.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Wed 7/23: Jack White, Brainstorm, and House of Movies Double Feature

by Will Greenberg July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, July 23

Kareem Bandealy and Michael Patrick Thornton in the Gift Theatre's Othello
Posted inArts & Culture

A gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s great Other

by Tony Adler July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

The Gift Theatre’s gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s Othello gives us a more Moorish Moor.

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