Surf, the new album from Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment (aka Chance the Rapper’s backing band), is for sale on iTunes.
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 35
Issue of May. 28 – Jun. 3, 2015
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George McCaskey’s handling of the Ray McDonald affair offers a lesson to the press
Ray McDonald and self-inflicted blindness
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A day inside the ever-changing Gabriel Sierra installation at the Renaissance Society
A catalog of ever-changing thoughts
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Rain or shine, a tale of two festivals: Beer Under Glass and the Welles Park Craft Beer Fest
Chicago Craft Beer Week’s opening and closing events featured a lot of the same beers, but enjoyed very different weather conditions.
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Local duo Tinkerbelles will try to play 40 sets in ten days across seven states
They’ll give Guinness a shot in June.
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Let’s talk about pierogi (part two): Alexandra’s Pierogi
Delving deeper into the dumplings from a northwest side pierogi factory.
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The Dø play Chicago for the first time since releasing Victoires de la Musique winner Shake Shook Shaken
Franco-Finnish duo the Dø play electro-pop that’s smart and lively enough to win over a metalhead.
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Did you read about CPS, MDMA, and Tribune Publishing?
Also alcoholism, Rick Santorum, and grammar Nazis?
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Thanking Chicago’s school children for their sacrifice
With the Willis Tower and other downtown buildings fetching record sales prices, it’s a good time to remember how much TIF money we’ve sunk into these areas.
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Do I qualify as asexual?
Dan Savage advises a woman who wonders whether she’s asexual, and more
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Spreading the good word about Chicago gospel
Scholar Robert Marovich documents gospel’s Windy City roots in a new book and recommends five Chicago acts at this weekend’s Gospel Music Festival.
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The Salts shows how grandparent-friendly the local performance scene has become
A dance-music shindig from arts collective the Inconvenience provides some good old-fashioned multidisciplinary mayhem.
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Here’s the Riot Fest 2015 lineup
The packed bill includes No Doubt, Drive Like Jehu, and Snoop Dogg performing Doggystyle.
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In Amour Fou, a brilliant Prussian writer seeks a partner in suicide
In Amour Fou, filmmaker Jessica Hausner chronicles the symbolic suicide of German Romantic playwright Heinrich von Kleist.
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King Louie and Mick Jenkins manipulate time with their new music
The Chicago rappers seem to alter time on some of their new material.