The Chicago defense attorney sees police officers accused of misconduct as “the ultimate underdog.”
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 19
Issue of Feb. 16 – 22, 2017
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What’s wrong with presidential libraries?
Anthony Clark’s The Last Campaign explores the troubling history of these wonky historical institutions.
Posted inBlogs
The Cambrians bring the mashup to the dance world
In Empress Archer, the troupe combine various pieces into one work.
Posted inArts & Culture
Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men plays the game of Privilege—literally
Playwright-director Young Jean Lee brings her didactic, intentionally annoying play to Steppenwolf.
Posted inBlogs
ThemPeople draw from Chicago’s close-knit hip-hop scene for two new tracks inspired by TV
Production collective ThemPeople recruits Smino, Via Rosa, and the Mind for the new Sitcom.
Posted inBlogs
Forty-fives go mobile on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local designer Scott Williams.
Posted inBlogs
CPS sues Illinois over ‘unequal’ and ‘separate’ school funding, and other Chicago news
Also, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has presented attorney general Jeff Sessions with a list of ways the federal government can help stop gun violence in Chicago.
Posted inArts & Culture
A new biography of Dorothy Day is an antidote to trying times
In Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty, Kate Hennessy memorializes her grandmother’s extraordinary life.
Posted inMusic
The Burlington conjures up a witch-house night
The Burlington conjures up a witch-house night, local record labels take over the Empty Bottle for an afternoon, and more.
Posted inBlogs
Can we forgive athletes who stiff the president?
There’s nothing wrong with being rude if you have something important to say.
Posted inArts & Culture
KJ Whitehead takes comedy back from straight white men
The black, genderqueer stand-up uses a new show and Second City class to encourage diversity in Chicago’s comedy scene.
Posted inMusic
Solo drone project Mind Over Mirrors becomes a five-way collaboration
Jaime Fennelly enriches Mind Over Mirrors with help from an all-star team of Haley Fohr, Janet Bean, Jim Becker, and Jon Mueller.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How the Trump administration could bankrupt Chicago Public Schools
Plans to pull funding from traditional public education would compound an already dire financial picture in Illinois and Chicago.
Posted inBlogs
Eugene Chadbourne’s paradigm-smashing There’ll Be No Tears Tonight is back in print
Corbett vs. Dempsey’s record label reissues Eugene Chadbourne’s mind-warping 1980 collision of free improv, country music, and bebop.
Posted inBlogs
The Planned Parenthood of Illinois bake sale sold out online before sales were even scheduled to begin
Thirteen Chicago restaurants have sold more than $37,000 worth of cookies to benefit women’s health care.