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Home » Vol. 45 No. 1

Tag: Vol. 45 No. 1

Issue of Oct. 1 – 7, 2015

Posted inBlogs

A Franklin Room bartender makes a cocktail with a Budweiser product that tastes like ‘barley and regret’

by Julia Thiel October 6, 2015August 18, 2021

Challenged to make a cocktail with Bud Light Lime, Josh Martinez of the Franklin Room reduces its cousin, the Lime-a-Rita, to a falernum syrup and makes a cocktail with it.

Posted inArts & Culture

The new school of Chicago comedy

by Brianna Wellen October 2, 2015August 18, 2021

Chicago’s most cutting-edge comedy is happening in attics, garages, and other makeshift performance spaces. The new school of Chicago comedy

Posted inBlogs

Rauneromics: Tax credits for ConAgra, budget cuts for everyone else

by Ben Joravsky October 2, 2015August 18, 2021

While social service programs and education throughout the state get cut, Illinois governor Bruce Rauner forks over as much as $1.26 million in tax credits to poach ConAgra from Omaha.

Posted inBlogs

Michael Shannon wants you outta here now, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones October 2, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

The Chicago Architecture Biennial opens this weekend

by Deanna Isaacs October 2, 2015August 18, 2021

The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opens Saturday; here’s a glimpse of what you’ll see.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How not to be an asshole

by Dan Savage October 2, 2015August 18, 2021

Two cheaters and a fickle young cad fess up to bad behavior.

Posted inBlogs

At Lyric Opera and COT: a pair of Mozart operas

by Deanna Isaacs October 2, 2015August 18, 2021

At Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, dueling Mozart operas.

Posted inBlogs

Do the Cha Cha Cha at Jinya Ramen Bar

by Mike Sula October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

The country’s fastest-growing ramen chain arrives in Lincoln Park.

Posted inArts & Culture

Victory Gardens’ Sucker Punch is a KO

by Zac Thompson October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Dexter Bullard directs British playwright Roy Williams’s drama about two black London boxers.

Posted inBlogs

Of course there’s death metal about Harry Potter

by Philip Montoro October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Muggle Death Camp recently released an album of blackened death metal inspired by Lord Voldemort’s seven horcruxes.

Posted inBlogs

Did you read about the animal intelligentsia, Melania Trump, and Cuban hardcore bands?

by Reader staff October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Also South America, Harry Weese, Stella, and cocaine accessories?

Posted inFilm

In the Pakistani drama Dukhtar, a woman tries to rescue her daughter from an arranged marriage

by Ben Sachs October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Filmmaker Afia Nathaniel appears in person when her movie screens at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival.

Posted inFilm

Ramin Bahrani returns with 99 Homes, one of the best films of the year

by J.R. Jones October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield star in this brutal examination of the subprime mortgage meltdown.

Posted inArts & Culture

Sandra Cisneros comes home

by Brianna Wellen October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

In her new memoir, A House of My Own, the 60-year-old author recounts more than 30 years’ worth of personal stories about the places she’s lived and the writing they inspired.

Posted inArts & Culture

Steppenwolf’s East of Eden is a mythic misstep

by Tony Adler October 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Frank Galati’s adaptation of the Steinbeck novel doesn’t find a way ‘in and in and in.’

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