More than a dozen local hip-hop acts band together at Subterranean on Saturday for the fund-raiser Chicago Stands With Standing Rock.
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 8
Issue of Nov. 24 – 30, 2016
Posted inBlogs
Examining what’s changed a year after the Laquan McDonald video, and other Chicago news
Also, the Cubs will have to pay nearly $400,000 to repair Grant Park after the massive World Series victory rally.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
All about vore
A GF earns a platinum GGG card for open-mindedness. Plus: sex toys for the novice buyer
Posted inBlogs
For Thanksgiving, a list of long reads dedicated to Native Americans
Long-form stories from the Reader and elsewhere to get you thinking about the origins of Thanksgiving
Posted inCity Life
The best made-in-Chicago gift ideas for the holidays
Shop hyperlocal this season for everything from unorthodox games and Chicago-centric books to craft booze and high-design home goods.
Posted inMusic
Music gifts you can actually wrap
Digital downloads haven’t yet driven box sets extinct—and this year the best include Paul Bowles’s Moroccan field recordings, vintage Ray Charles in mono, a 50-year NRBQ retrospective, and ten discs of foundational 40s bebop from Savoy Records.
Posted inBlogs
Postelection, Chicago’s Jewish community considers its role as a force for good
Around 200 people gathered at Anshe Emet in Lakeview Tuesday to plan what to do next.
Posted inCity Life
A home away from Humboldt House
The owner of the popular shop has an open-door policy at her well-appointed cottage.
Posted inBlogs
Things to do in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day
Why not get out in the city and enjoy Thanksgiving for a change?
Posted inFood & Drink
Old Irving Brewing will ease your postelection pain
Trevor Rose-Hamblin’s beer and Matthias Merges’s food could fuel the revolution—or at least spirited talk of one.
Posted inBlogs
A Chicago designer and LA band Autolux take aim at Trump with a vagina full of rainbows
Chicago artist Tom Feltenberger based his anti-Trump design on the cover of Autolux’s current album, Pussy’s Dead.
Posted inFood & Drink
Estereo dances to a Latin beat in Logan Square
The Heisler Hospitality spot is a cafe by day, and by night a bustling bar focused on Latin American spirits.
Posted inBlogs
Will a Trump DOJ quash Chicago police reforms?
What a Jeff Sessions-lead Department of Justice could mean for the ongoing probe into CPD
Posted inArts & Culture
Roz and Ray, Turtle, and eight more new stage shows
A tables-turning HIV drama and a world premiere from Redtwist are among this week’s best bets.