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.
Tag: Vol. 45 No. 1
Issue of Oct. 1 – 7, 2015
Posted inArts & Culture
The new school of Chicago comedy
Chicago’s most cutting-edge comedy is happening in attics, garages, and other makeshift performance spaces. The new school of Chicago comedy
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Rauneromics: Tax credits for ConAgra, budget cuts for everyone else
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.
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Michael Shannon wants you outta here now, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The Chicago Architecture Biennial opens this weekend
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
Two cheaters and a fickle young cad fess up to bad behavior.
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At Lyric Opera and COT: a pair of Mozart operas
At Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, dueling Mozart operas.
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Do the Cha Cha Cha at Jinya Ramen Bar
The country’s fastest-growing ramen chain arrives in Lincoln Park.
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Victory Gardens’ Sucker Punch is a KO
Dexter Bullard directs British playwright Roy Williams’s drama about two black London boxers.
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Of course there’s death metal about Harry Potter
Muggle Death Camp recently released an album of blackened death metal inspired by Lord Voldemort’s seven horcruxes.
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Did you read about the animal intelligentsia, Melania Trump, and Cuban hardcore bands?
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
Filmmaker Afia Nathaniel appears in person when her movie screens at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival.
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Ramin Bahrani returns with 99 Homes, one of the best films of the year
Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield star in this brutal examination of the subprime mortgage meltdown.
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Sandra Cisneros comes home
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.
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Steppenwolf’s East of Eden is a mythic misstep
Frank Galati’s adaptation of the Steinbeck novel doesn’t find a way ‘in and in and in.’