Current musical obsessions of singer-songwriter Rob Nicholas, CPS teacher Paul DeNovi, and Reader digital content editor Tal Rosenberg
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 24
Issue of Mar. 12 – 18, 2015
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The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup and the rest of Leo McCarey’s best films
Highlights from the filmography of Leo McCarey
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Old-school sign painter Jeff Williams on why computer-generated stickers ain’t got soul
Meet this week’s Chicagoan, sign painter Jeff Williams: “Everything is all laid out by my hands and my soul.”
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Guitarist Jon Lundbom follows his own muse on the new Jeremiah
If you didn’t get to know this idiosyncratic guitarist when he lived in Chicago, now’s as good a time as any to start.
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Pretend it’s summertime with a Farmhouse Chicago bartender’s elotes cocktail
Challenged to create a cocktail with canned corn, Victoria Snider turns to Mexican street food for inspiration.
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Adam Carolla and some basement-dwelling sadomasochists are coming to theaters tomorrow
Carolla’s quasi-autobiographical comedy Road Hard gets its Chicago premiere at the same time as In the Basement, the latest provocation from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl.
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Should you buy the beer in the green Buddha bottles?
Whether Lucky Buddha is worth the price depends on your fondness for middling Asian lagers and novelty glassware.
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Lust for Youth bring their pretty darkwave to town this weekend
On Saturday these synth-loving Copenhagen postpunks stop at the Empty Bottle on their North American tour.
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Did you read about Ceres, music for felines, and Brandon Marshall?
Also John McPhee, the “gravitational lens,” why blacks hesitate to call 911, Tinder and odd jobs, the oil train derailment in Galena, undocumented immigrants, and the van-dwelling MLB prospect?
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Sex workers exhibit their art to raise awareness
The Sex Worker Outreach Project of Chicago hosts its first-ever art show on Friday night.
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No tickets to Bongripper? Try the band’s bonkers burger instead
This week’s B Side cover subject, Chicago doom band Bongripper, inspired the burger of the month at Kuma’s Corner.
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The European Union Film Festival invades Chicago, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Modern Afghan history is a cycle of hell in Adam Curtis’s masterful doc Bitter Lake
The British essayist’s latest nonfiction horror film is now available online.