Infusing vodka with fresh mint not only preserves one of the classic flavors of summer, it also gives you one of the main ingredients of a classic cocktail—the creamy, chocolatey, minty Grasshopper.
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 49
Issue of Sep. 3 – 9, 2015
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Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Posted inArts & Culture
How Chicago shaped Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert’s friends and former cast members look back at his formative years in Chicago.
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American Ultra is a real downer of an action comedy
Maybe that’s why the Jesse Eisenberg-Kristen Stewart vehicle isn’t a hit.
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Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall show up for LUMA’s tenth birthday party
The Loyola University Museum of Art celebrates its first decade by bringing back some of its greatest hits.
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The sixth Chicago Fringe Festival, opening tonight, brings zombies, victims, and furries to town
Until our reviews are out, here’s a preview of what you’ll see.
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Black Breath prep for their newest album by dropping its title track, the pummeling and hateful ‘Slaves Beyond Death’
In anticipation for the upcoming Slaves Beyond Death Black Breath share the album’s title track, a fun mix of filthy metal riffs and doomful lyrics.
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A perfect documentary for Steve Jobs, the narcissist
Alex Gibney’s latest feature treats the Apple founder with all the reverence he expected.
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In Queen of Earth, Elisabeth Moss is a woman on the edge of madness
The latest drama from indie director Alex Ross Perry explores the terror of being trapped in one’s own head.
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Did you read about the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, McDonald’s breakfast, and Taco Bell?
Also a failed gerrymander, a state’s “official word,” and Brendan Sodikoff?
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Mayor Rahm runs out on his own budget hearing
As last night’s hearing at the South Shore Cultural Center showed, the Mayor was going through the motions when he solicited budget ideas and suggestions from Chicago’s citizens.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
All aboard! Claypool transfers CTA pals to CPS
Rahm’s schools CEO is putting a new spin on an old Chicago budget trick.
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Strawdog’s After Miss Julie reconceives Strindberg’s ‘man hater’
But there’s no escaping the seductress’s tragic end.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Introducing . . . the T-type asexual
Dan Savage advises a young woman convinced she’s an asexual dom. Plus: a foot fetishist fearful of an all-vanilla future, another type of Ashley Madison victim
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Making art out of Hurricane Katrina’s suffering
Ten years after the disaster in New Orleans, true stories of survival fill a pair of Chicago productions.