Mike Lenehan devours the Bard’s comedy, as staged by the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Tag: Vol. 45 No. 51
Issue of Sep. 29 – Oct. 5, 2016
A ‘flower child’ made an appearance at the World Music Festival
Street View featuring Edgewater resident Irene Flores
What does Nat Turner have to say to today’s America?
On the culture’s current preoccupation with the eras of slavery and Jim Crow in the U.S.
Middle Man director Ned Crowley reflects on Chicago comedy and the price of fame
The local filmmaker will screen his black comedy at the 52nd annual Chicago International Film Festival.
Venezuelan spot Bienmesabe is a hit with Cubs catcher Willson Contreras and other expat baseball players
Major leaguers get their arepa fix in Ravenswood.
LOL! Chicago Tribune tells its readers to vote for Gary Johnson
The paper endorses the “What’s Aleppo?” candidate for president.
With a strike date of October 11 pending, CTU remains in talks with the Emanuel administration, and other Chicago news
Also, Hillary Clinton raises a cool $4 million with two Chicago fund-raisers ranging from $50,000 to $2,700 per plate.
Without addressing racism, Mayor Emanuel’s violence-prevention plan will fail
Systemic racial prejudice was the single-biggest missing element from Rahm’s “major speech.”
Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador
The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.
Producer and DJ Fess Grandiose on the local beat scene he loves and the hip-hop boom in Logan Square
Beat maker Fess Grandiose talks about the Logan Square scene and his new self-titled instrumental debut for Chicago’s ETC Records.
Watch a Sable bartender turn his aunt’s mojo sauce into a Puerto Rican cocktail
Challenged to create a cocktail with mojo, Pito Rodriguez of Sable Kitchen & Bar turns to a family recipe.
In Snowden, a private life obscures a public scandal
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the notorious whistle-blower in Oliver Stone’s new biopic.
New Madigan documentary surprises some of the people in it
New Michael Madigan documentary surprises some people who didn’t know the Illinois Policy Institute was behind it.
Local trio Absolutely Not premiere the paranoia-inducing video for ‘Programmed’
Prolific trio Absolutely Not celebrate the release of their new single with a benefit show Friday night at Emporium.