Vic & Gab, Slayer, Eli Keszler, and Barbez top a full card of weekend music
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 8
Issue of Nov. 14 – 20, 2013
Reader’s Agenda Thu 11/14: Rob Delaney, “Christmas Around the World,” and Traviata
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, November 14
Slut autoshaming
Dan on slut self-shaming, a misplaced cock ring, and a misleading online lesbian
Museum Hours: figures in the landscape
Two strangers bond over Bruegel in Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Seeds of Doubt
Garage rockers the Seeds of Doubt were kings of the Chambana scene in the late 60s, but their only recordings have been lost.
This week in Claire Denis: Talking to the Nightingale’s Christy LeMaster about Nenette et Boni and Beau Travail
The second in a series of discussions about the renowned French filmmaker with Chicago-based female critics, artists, and academics
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more
A better goal for CPS
A better goal for CPS: reduce the staggering proportion of low-income students
A Soundcloud spin through Chicago hip-hop’s past
Let Milwaukee rapper and Dope Folks Records cofounder Kid Millions guide you through the world of hard-to-find old-school Chicago rap with his recent Soundcloud mix.
What puts One World Trade Center above Willis Tower?
Tallness: You know it when you see, says the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Lyric Opera’s Parsifal: A pure fool Q&A
You’ll want to be awake for the second act of Wagner’s bro-centric five-hour opera.
12 O’Clock Track: “The Electric Airbag Police,” shape-shifting abstraction by Norway’s Astro Sonic
A jam from the improvising trio’s debut album Come Closer and I’ll Tell You
Did you read about Tacloban, Francis Bacon, and Tina Turner?
Also Richard Cohen, dating sites, latter-day oil booms, Janis Shinwari, Apple II DOS, slavery in Brazil, the What Would I Say? app, The Nine-Tenths, Charlie Parker, and an alligator on the Blue Line?
Michael Kinsley’s takedown of Double Down is a plea for plain English
You might like the juicy new account of the 2012 presidential campaign if you can cut through its chasmal noisesomeness.