New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 50
Issue of Sep. 10 – 16, 2015
Posted inBlogs
Niles’s other Korean supermarket has a hidden food court full of treasures
From bone soup to Korean corn dogs, Assi Plaza is serving it.
Posted inCity Life
Design agency Someoddpilot’s Wicker Park office isn’t just another sleek branding studio
The Chicago-based branding agency forgoes the glossy interior of most design studios.
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Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov searches for his ‘Shield of Achilles against bullshit’
Bulgaria’s most popular contemporary novelist visits Chicago—home to a huge Bulgarian population—to read from his new book The Physics of Sorrow on Thursday.
Posted inArts & Culture
Recycled Barre brings affordable dance lessons to Pilsen
Two CPS teachers want to make ballet accessible to everyone.
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Charbroiling oysters with Tommy Cvitanovich of New Orleans’ Drago’s
We talk oysters with Tommy Cvitanovich, whose family owns the most successful restaurant in Louisiana, Drago’s Seafood.
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Stars of Lyric Opera offered shivers, bright lights, and a taste of a promising season
The weather chilled and the lights blinded, but Lyric Opera’s program in Millennium Park suggested good things to come.
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How to make a Stinger: A two-ingredient cocktail with hardly any sting
Creme de menthe finds more uses in the Stinger and the Dimention cocktails—and so does Copper & Kings aged brandy
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Talking and shucking with Montreal’s champion oyster shucker Daniel Notkin
The preservation and consumption of oysters are closely related, says Montreal’s champion shucker Daniel Notkin.
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Did you read about Houston, Japonais by Morimoto, and Steve Albini?
Also the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the Ferguson Commission, SFX, victim culture, and campaign visits to Iowa-based college football games?
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At Riot Fest’s close, Snoop was late, Jimmy Cliff was great, and Juggalos made our day
On the third and final day of Riot Fest, the punk-rock fantasy camp atmosphere began to evaporate.
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How to make Mayor Rahm do the right thing
As the parents and teachers at Oriole Park Elementary learned the hard way, you can’t be afraid to squeak if you want to get some grease from Mayor Emanuel.
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Photos of the Saturday crowd at Riot Fest 2015
Crowd shots from day two of Riot Fest 2015.
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Day two of Riot Fest: Bootsy Collins, alien jizz, and senior citizens kicking everyone’s asses
Riot Fest was still muddy and gross on Saturday, but the music—Drive Like Jehu, System of a Down, Rancid, the Damned—made all the slogging around worth it.