A new study on religion raises the question: If kids have trouble with reality—so what?
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 44
Issue of Jul. 24 – 30, 2014
‘This is the bike for Chicago’
The worst winter in decades inspired a design firm and frame builder to fashion a bike tough enough for this town.
One Bite: The B50 Burger at Chef’s Burger Bistro
Children, this ain’t no Salisbury steak.
Mayor Rahm doles out some goodies to Hyde Park and Kenwood
With an eye toward winning south-side votes, Mayor Rahm agrees to move the Kenwood Academic Center into the closed Canter school building.
The Reader’s Joravsky and Dumke win Altgeld Award
The Newberry Library honors the reporting of Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke.
Common comes home to a different Chicago on Nobody’s Smiling
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.
Follow Will Cullen Hart of Circulatory System as he shops for records at Pitchfork
Will Cullen Hart talks about Sun Ra and Velvet Underground in Pitchfork’s record fair.
Tomorrow night South Side Projections turns Co-Prosperity Sphere into a cathouse
Noting the south-side arts organization’s second annual program of cat-related experimental shorts
12 O’Clock Track: Wild Beasts’ striking and seething single ‘Wanderlust’
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Wanderlust,” the opener from the most recent Wild Beasts album, Present Tense.
Did you read about William T. Vollmann, David Lynch, and the NFL?
Also colon-cancer cures, forgiveness, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and lionfish conservation?
Reader premiere: Migration, the debut EP from singer Lykanthea
The latest project of Lakshmi Ramgopal, one of the members of darkwave duo Love & Radiation
Why would Bruce Rauner want to buy the governor’s mansion?
A shrewd businessman would know the leaky manor house is a fixer-upper.
Gig poster of the week: Soul Summit’s a slam dunk
This week’s gig poster was created by local designer Scott Williams.
Reader’s Agenda Wed 7/23: Jack White, Brainstorm, and House of Movies Double Feature
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, July 23
A gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s great Other
The Gift Theatre’s gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s Othello gives us a more Moorish Moor.