Dance and video—both 3-D and real-time—combine in this MCA show featuring veterans of Merce Cunningham Dance.
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 24
Issue of Mar. 23 – 29, 2017
Posted inNews & Politics
The future is female. So how do we get there?
Four badass women discuss how intersectionality will save the feminist movement.
Posted inBlogs
City Council expected to renew ‘sanctuary city’ status, and other Chicago news
Also, two former museum executives want to make the American Sports Museum a reality in Chicago.
Posted inBlogs
Potheads rejoice: Illinois lawmakers move to legalize recreational weed
The proposed law would make it legal for adults to possess, purchase, and grow weed and would regulate and tax the drug statewide.
Posted inNews & Politics
Liberals are finally listening to Thomas Frank about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party
The author of Listen Liberal looks prescient in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory.
Posted inBlogs
Amazing, dreamlike photos of Saba, Noname, Ne-Hi and more at SXSW
Photographer Brittany Sowacke uses double exposures and prisms to give her concert shots an otherworldly beauty.
Posted inFilm
The movie that made heroin fun gets a sequel for a less heroin-friendly time
T2: Trainspotting reunites the Edinburgh junkies from the beloved British black comedy.
Posted inBlogs
Eviction filings in Chicago appear to be on the decline
But this doesn’t mean low-income renters are better off.
Posted inArts & Culture
Theater Wit’s 10 Out of 12 isn’t about keeping us on the edge of our seats
Anne Washburn’s behind-the-scenes play re-creates the drudgery of a tech rehearsal.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Falling, and eight more stage shows to see now
Bertolt Brecht’s satire set in 1930s gangland Chicago and Interrobang Theatre’s local premiere of an off-Broadway hit are among this week’s best bets.
Posted inBlogs
What to know about Amazon Books, now open on Southport
The online retailer ventures into the real world.
Posted inArts & Culture
Court Theatre’s The Hard Problem sets up a straw man
Tom Stoppard’s latest draws blood with a timely portrayal of for-profit scientific research.
Posted inBlogs
Smino raps like he’s from his own planet on his debut album, Blkswn
Rising Chicago rap star Smino grew up in Saint Louis, but the idiosyncratic sound on his new debut album can’t be pinpointed on any map.
Posted inBlogs
Lollapalooza 2017 lineup: Chance the Rapper takes a victory lap with a bunch of predictable acts
The local rap hero is one of the few bright spots on an otherwise anemic Lollapalooza lineup that also includes Lorde, Migos, the XX, Run the Jewels, and, um, Liam Gallagher.
Posted inBlogs
Enjoyed Get Out? Try The Belko Experiment and Raw.
Two new horror films are just as acute pieces of social commentary as Jordan Peele’s film.