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
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A ‘flower child’ made an appearance at the World Music Festival
Street View featuring Edgewater resident Irene Flores
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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.
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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.
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Venezuelan spot Bienmesabe is a hit with Cubs catcher Willson Contreras and other expat baseball players
Major leaguers get their arepa fix in Ravenswood.
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LOL! Chicago Tribune tells its readers to vote for Gary Johnson
The paper endorses the “What’s Aleppo?” candidate for president.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Snowden, a private life obscures a public scandal
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the notorious whistle-blower in Oliver Stone’s new biopic.
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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.
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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.