Also, RIP to the Shrine nightclub, and plans for sex club in River North are off the table.
Tag: Vol. 45 No. 20
Issue of Feb. 25 – Mar. 2, 2016
Posted inBlogs
LA Times reporters scrounge passes from their bosses to cover the Oscars
Michael Ferro nabbed passes usually reserved for the paper’s entertainment reporters.
Posted inMusic
Blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks has had careers under two different names
Lonnie Brooks has worked with Clifton Chenier, Jimmy Reed, and Johnny Winter, and keeps on playing into his 80s.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
In Illinois’s Democratic primaries, it’s the governor, stupid
Duh, challengers should be running against the most unpopular politician in Chicago not named Rahm.
Posted inBlogs
Check out ‘Wonderful,’ the new single from Cate Le Bon
A track from the forthcoming album Crab Day by Welsh singer Cate Le Bon
Posted inBlogs
Watch Best Intentions bartender Calvin Marty make a cocktail using an alien-looking vegetable
Challenged to create a cocktail with celery root, Calvin Marty of Best Intentions roasts and purees it.
Posted inBlogs
Where Gilmore Guys leads we will follow
The comedy duo tapes two live episodes of their Gilmore Girls podcast at Thalia Hall.
Posted inNews & Politics
The untold school segregation story behind Bernie Sanders’s 1963 arrest
Englewood parents were desperate after Chicago Public Schools officials tried to put black children in a warehouse next to unguarded railroad tracks.
Posted inBlogs
The first confirmed case of Zika virus in Chicago and other news
Also, Rahm slams Donald Trump, and being admitted to Walter Payton College Prep is a huge accomplishment.
Posted inFood & Drink
Cold Storage might leave you cold
Mike Sula reviews Cold Storage, the Boka group’s new casual seafood spot.
Posted inBlogs
Lost Lake goes disco, Spike Lee talks Chi-Raq, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Laser Comedy Show, Sunflower Bean, and more happenings from February 29-March 3.
Posted inBlogs
Tribune says GOP, Obama should take ‘middle ground’ on the Supreme Court opening
As if such a thing exists.
Posted inBlogs
Layoffs possible for Chicago Public Schools teachers and other Chicago news
Also, the city surpasses 100 homicides for 2016, and the mysterious killing of three young Muslim men in Fort Wayne, Indiana.