Volume 46, Number 42
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 42
Issue of Jul. 27 – Aug. 2, 2017
Posted inBlogs
Chicago officials take a page from Trump playbook to justify Navy Pier TIF ‘shell game’
The Emanuel administration’s explanation for how $55 million wound up paying for Navy Pier renovations sounds like gobbledygook from the presidential administration.
Posted inFilm
Time is of the essence in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story
Casey Affleck stars as a dead man watching and waiting for all eternity.
Posted inBlogs
Report: Trump ‘gets a kick out of personally needling’ Rahm Emanuel, and other Chicago news
Also, in 2015 R. Kelly was reportedly kicked out of a local recording studio after “trashing” it.
Posted inArts & Culture
Megan Stielstra interviewing Samantha Irby: The right way to meet in real life
Two rising literary stars talk shop on the occasion of their new books.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
When a 16-year-old is getting sexted as her sister sulks
Dan Savage advises a mother whose teenage daughters are both interested in the same “older” boy, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Megan Stielstra, as seen through the people she admires
The author’s family and friends reflect on her work—and the gratifying (and sometimes thorny) experience of being a subject of her writing.
Posted inBlogs
Buena Park decides to welcome Haymarket Books to the neighborhood after all
Despite opposition, the publisher received its special use permit to move in.
Posted inArts & Culture
Triassic Parq: The Musical, A Fool’s Journey, and five more new stage shows to see (or avoid)
A remounted spoof with singing dinosaurs and a Misfit Circus cabaret are among this week’s best bets.
Posted inBlogs
Aura Curiatlas Physical Theatre’s A Life With No Limits ranges from human caregivers to fundamental particles
A work about wheelchair-bound astrophysicist Stephen Hawking soars.
Posted inArts & Culture
Prepare to be dumbstruck by Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia
The company’s latest spectacular is “a waking dream of Mexico” as mind-bestirring as it is surreal.
Posted inBlogs
Dunkirk and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are alive with the sound of money
The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.
Posted inMusic
Reviewed: Twista’s disjointed but generous Crook County and 11 more new releases
Seven Reader writers tackle a dozen records, including the long-gestating debut from footwork producer Jana Rush, lost recordings from 60s garage-rock oddballs the Monks, and a riveting solo set from unsung improvising pianist Pat Thomas.
Posted inBlogs
There’s a room with a view on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Ash Windbigler.
Posted inBlogs
Judge continues block of Cook County ‘pop tax’ until at least Friday, and other Chicago news
Also, the EPA approved Chicago’s dry ice method of killing rats.