White Chicagoans grapple with their place in the movement for black lives.
Tag: Vol. 45 No. 41
Issue of Jul. 21 – 27, 2016
Posted inBlogs
One activist arrested Wednesday during police divestment protest and party
The action honored victims of recent police-involved deaths and opposed the proposed “Blue Lives Matter” ordinance.
Posted inFilm
In the Dept. Q Trilogy individual goodness triumphs over rampant evil
Nikolaj Lie Kaas stars as a damaged cop reopening the coldest of cases.
Posted inArts & Culture
Bite: A Pucking Queer Cabaret, Squeeze My Cans, and ten more new stage shows
‘Tis the season for the Bard and the bawdy.
Posted inFilm
Are you happy? Inquiring nuns want to know
A 1968 documentary from Kartemquin Films explores the nature of fulfillment.
Posted inFood & Drink
Chef Cameron Grant’s Animale instincts are sharp
The folks behind Logan Square’s great Osteria Langhe get gutsy with Italian at Animale.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Goodman’s War Paint is too rosy
True divas Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone shine in a musical about two cosmetics tycoons.
Posted inFilm
Ten new French features come to the Music Box
Our roundup of reviews of local debuts at the Chicago French Film Festival
Posted inBlogs
Hundreds of children have been shot so far in 2016, and other Chicago news
Also, Rahm is hosting a party for CPS principals in Maggie Daley Park.
Posted inArts & Culture
Before #BlackLivesMatter, there was Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison
Two lost photo essays, now on display at the Art Institute, go beyond racial stereotypes to reveal the real life of Harlem.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A commitment-phobe, a hot bi BIL, and a Recon recog
Uncle Dan’s special all-gay edition
Posted inMusic
Trouble in Mind blossoms as it grows
Bill and Lisa Roe’s golden ears have helped turn Trouble in Mind from a garage-rock label into something much more diverse—and even more wonderful.
Posted inNews & Politics
The new Ed Vrdolyak is nothing like the old one
Tenth Ward alderman Sue Sadlowski Garza is cultivating a new kind of progressive power on Chicago’s southeast side.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A controversial Elgin mural is stranded between censorship and outrage
American Nocturne was inspired by a photo of a notorious 1930 lynching.