“I didn’t want to sleep because I didn’t want to miss any of it.”
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 35
Issue of May. 28 – Jun. 3, 2015
Posted inMusic
Darkwave trio Staring Problem release their first new material in four years
Darkwave trio Staring Problem release their first new material in four years, Pinwheel Records opens in Pilsen this summer, and more.
Posted inFilm
Actor Robert Ryan was The Wild Bunch’s party man
An excerpt from J.R. Jones’s new book, The Lives of Robert Ryan
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about Rick Santorum, FIFA, and Mary Ellen Mark?
Also John Nash’s game theory, Merriam-Webster’s newest words, and your email inbox?
Posted inBlogs
Celebrate the gloomy debut LP from Chicago posthardcore group Sewingneedle
“Two For the Road,” off Sewingneedle’s forthcoming Vote of No Confidence, is a bummer of a song and video in the best way possible.
Posted inBlogs
Comedians joke in isolation in Seven Minutes in Purgatory
The stand-up show separates the comics from the audience.
Posted inBlogs
A clown and his hounds grace the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed and hand-screened by local artist Ryan Duggan.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How ratings agencies play their own politics with Chicago taxpayers
Bond ratings aside, the city’s not in the tank just yet.
Posted inBlogs
When men cheat it’s ‘evolutionary logic’—what about women?
According to this New York Times essay men but not women can claim an evolutionary impetus for infidelity.
Posted inBlogs
Drone warfare takes a psychic toll on Ethan Hawke in Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill
The latest collaboration between the duo behind Gattaca portrays contemporary America as a sci-fi nightmare.
Posted inBlogs
Paul Fehribach shares a recipe from The Big Jones Cookbook: gumbo z’herbes
Go green with this veggie-centric stew from the Chicago chef’s collection of southern specialties.
Posted inBlogs
Why I want to get into jury duty, and why I’ll be snubbed again
Many are called, but I won’t be chosen.
Posted inBlogs
Let’s talk about the dumplings at Pierogi Street
Can pierogi become the next thing we fight about as foodies?
Posted inBlogs
The band that created the Bulls intro music plays the suburbs on Friday
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Old and Wise,” the closing track off the Alan Parsons Project’s 1982 album Eye in the Sky.
Posted inBlogs
Did you read about Rick Perry, high-rent blight, and Mozart?
Also the Cleveland police force, Marco Rubio, right-wing craziness in Texas, and a death at the Aragon?