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
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‘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.
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One Bite: The B50 Burger at Chef’s Burger Bistro
Children, this ain’t no Salisbury steak.
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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.
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The Reader’s Joravsky and Dumke win Altgeld Award
The Newberry Library honors the reporting of Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Did you read about William T. Vollmann, David Lynch, and the NFL?
Also colon-cancer cures, forgiveness, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and lionfish conservation?
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Reader premiere: Migration, the debut EP from singer Lykanthea
The latest project of Lakshmi Ramgopal, one of the members of darkwave duo Love & Radiation
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Why would Bruce Rauner want to buy the governor’s mansion?
A shrewd businessman would know the leaky manor house is a fixer-upper.
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Gig poster of the week: Soul Summit’s a slam dunk
This week’s gig poster was created by local designer Scott Williams.
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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
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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.