What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, August 13
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 47
Issue of Aug. 14 – 20, 2014
Posted inArts & Culture
Steppenwolf Theatre’s little summer festival offers three plays worth developing
At First Look Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre’s little summer festival, the sitting is easy.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The politics of Chicago’s potholes
City Council lapdogs aren’t getting their streets fixed any faster than independents.
Posted inArts & Culture
All Our Tragic combines 32 Greek tragedies into a playful 12-hour production
The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in All Our Tragic.
Posted inFilm
Into the Storm squanders its best asset
Veteran comic player Matt Walsh tries his hand at drama with Into the Storm.
Posted inFilm
In Calvary, an Irish Catholic priest is marked for death
Brendan Gleeson plays a holy man with one week to live in Calvary.
Posted inMusic
Gossip Wolf: Kid Sister dishes about her imminent mixtape
Kid Sister dishes about her imminent mixtape, Decade Studio takes over the Soma space, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
It’s standing room only at the Chicago Dancing Festival
The Chicago Dance Festival returns, drawing its usual maximum-capacity crowds.
Posted inBlogs
More on Ali Abunimah at the Evanston Public Library
Author Ali Abunimah visits Evanston to discuss the conflict in Gaza and read from his book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine.
Posted inBlogs
Evanston lets Ali Abunimah speak
After the event was briefly canceled, blogger and author Ali Abunimah talks about Palestine and Israel at the Evanston Public Library.
Posted inBlogs
An interview with Darious Britt, writer-director-star of Unsound
The first-time filmmaker explains how he dramatized his experience of caring for his mother, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder.
Posted inFilm
Artist on Artist: Andrew Bird talks to Brett and Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family
Andrew Bird talks to Brett and Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family.
Posted inBlogs
Twista talks about his new album, The Dark Horse
The Chicago hip-hop veteran chats about what inspired the title of his new album, working with rising local rappers, and getting involved in the community.
Posted inBlogs
Here’s Robin Williams as Popeye performing ‘I Yam What I Yam’
For today’s 12 O’Clock Track, remembering the late actor with this clip from Robert Altman’s 1980 film
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about Alzheimer’s, a south-side mural, and Robin Williams?
Also Ebola and a self-made ratings system?