Comparing and contrasting two current hit action fantasies
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 25
Issue of Mar. 19 – 25, 2015
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Peacenicks invade the Chicago Cultural Center, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Posted inMusic
Not even a gorilla mask could bring blues pianist Johnny ‘Big Moose’ Walker out of the sideman shadows
Big Moose worked for years with Earl Hooker and Elmore James and backed Otis Rush, Howlin’ Wolf, Ike Turner, and many more, but his own recordings never caught fire.
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Tiki drink classes, a sustainable seafood dinner, and more food stuff to do and read
Adam Seger teaches tiki drinks, Good Beer Hunting gets interviewed, a Moody Tongue beer dinner, secret weapons and more.
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After ten years, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, The Buried Giant is here
It’s a sort of meta experience in reading: it’s about a quest, and getting through it is also a quest.
Posted inFilm
David Robert Mitchell pays tribute to John Carpenter with It Follows
A slow-moving demon creeps inexorably toward its victims in this low-budget horror movie.
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Andy’s Music announces lineup for its metamorphosis event
The all-day show will help usher in the shop’s new era.
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Masaki Batoh of Ghost debuts new group the Silence
The Silence’s “Lemon Iro No Cannabis” is a grandly ornate and pastorally serene fusion of classic rock and psychedelia.
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Did you read about Sam Cooke, Birkenstocks, and Noel Gallagher?
Also Carnufex carolinesis, “white people only” stickers, French models, and a Napa Valley murder-suicide?
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A ‘haunted’ telephone can be all yours Saturday at the Nightingale
A couple of Art Institute grads bring together their Lynchian video game and a haunted telephone for an out-there art project.
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Emanuel and Garcia offered weak responses on segregation at Monday’s debate
A college student asks the mayoral candidates about segregation, and is disappointed by their answers.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A cuckold’s dilemma
Dan Savage advises a cuckold with a quandary, a girl in love but longing for an open relationship, and a married gay male with a dilemma of his own.
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Elastic returns! Photos of the arts nonprofit’s handsome new home
Elastic Arts christens its new space with concerts on Thursday and Friday—and augments its preexisting programming with some ambitious new series.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Goodman’s Two Trains Running perfectly re-creates a world where everyone’s stuck
August Wilson’s flawed masterpiece gets a fascinating if bleak revival.
Posted inFilm
In a Foreign Land balances politics and humanist concerns in a four-star feature
Director Icíar Bollaín documents the dead-end existence of Spanish immigrants in Scotland.