Christine stars Rebecca Hall as the Florida journalist who shot herself on the air.
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 8
Issue of Nov. 24 – 30, 2016
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago Shakespeare’s King Charles III owes less to the Bard than to Sophocles
A political dinosaur makes a last stand in Mike Bartlett’s drama.
Posted inBlogs
A Thanksgiving conversation that isn’t about Donald Trump
A guide to surviving the holiday
Posted inArts & Culture
Walter Benn Michaels on how liberals still love diversity and ignore inequality
A conversation with UIC professor Walter Benn Michaels, whose controversial 2006 polemic The Trouble with Diversity now looks prescient.
Posted inBlogs
Court Theatre concludes its House of Atreus trilogy with a Hamlet-like Electra
Sandra Marquez and Kate Fry are darkly fascinating as Sophocles’s murderous queen and her obsessed daughter.
Posted inBlogs
Brooklyn MC Chelsea Reject invokes the memory of Sandra Bland on a track with Chicago hip-hop’s new dream team
Chelsea Reject’s “Counterfeit,” which features Chicago hip-hop dream team Noname, Saba, and Phoelix, came out Monday via 119 Productions.
Posted inMusic
First-wave Chicago punk weirdos Silver Abuse released their second reunion album this year
In the late 70s and early 80s, Silver Abuse shared members with Naked Raygun—and their eclectic, discordant music was in some ways even more confrontational.
Posted inBlogs
A full-on Dwyer freak-out on the gig poster of the week
This week’s gig poster was designed by local artist Josh Davis.
Posted inBlogs
Report: Dennis Hastert is fighting to get his teacher pension back, and other Chicago news
Also, an alderman who has spoken out about the city’s aggressive squirrels landed in the hospital after a bike accident involving a “suicide bomber” squirrel.
Posted inArts & Culture
Q: Are we not furniture? A: We are “Set”!
Ania Jaworska’s solo show at Volume Gallery is more than just a bunch of black shapes.
Posted inArts & Culture
Erika Sheffer’s The Fundamentals does David Mamet proud
The intriguing outweighs the dutiful in Steppenwolf’s new production.
Posted inMusic
Industrial supergroup Pigface celebrates 25 years of revolving-door lineups
Industrial supergroup Pigface celebrates 25 years of revolving-door lineups, the Chosen Few DJs honor a bygone house-music club, and more.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What will ‘Trumpsportation’ mean for Chicago?
Transit and biking could lose funding, but some say Trump’s infrastructure plan has merit.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How did an academic administrator become the new city arts czar?
A conversation with Mark Kelly
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Rahm plants seeds for Red Line TIF while Chicago panics over Trump
As the mayor once said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”