Volume 47, Number 10
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 10
Issue of Dec. 7 – 13, 2017
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The year’s best box sets, honorable mentions
More gifts for music fiends: Elvis’s very earliest work, spiritual jazz by Pharoah Sanders, underappreciated postpunk by Seattle weirdos the U-Men, and more
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Kim Foxx gets a report card
Independent justice system observers rate the Cook County state’s attorney a year into her term.
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Have sportswriters changed their minds about football teams that let the opponents score?
The matador defense comes to the NFL.
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The Delta’s Adam Kamin creates a cocktail with lobster guts and lobster ice cubes
Challenged to create a cocktail with lobster tomalley—”the green stuff”—Kamin makes a drink with the whole lobster, meat and all.
Posted inFilm
Gary Oldman is the complete Winston Churchill, but Darkest Hour tells only half the story
Joe Wright’s biopic captures a great leader but not the people who empowered him.
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Hubbard Street Dance gifts us with an evening of works by Crystal Pite
The company presents A Picture of You Falling, Grace Engine, and The Other You.
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Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool’s very bad day, and other news
Also, Jason Van Dyke’s lawyer makes tone-deaf comparison to torture of three black sharecroppers.
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In Violet, a scarred heroine goes in search of a miracle
Griffin Theatre’s production of this Appalachian-flavored musical by Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori gives fans of Fun Home a taste of the latter’s earlier work.
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Shambolic rocker Mac Blackout publishes the art book Madman’s Eye
My friend Mac Blackout has found a way to turn his chaotic and provocative personality into chaotic and provocative art, and he celebrates his first book Friday at Galerie F.
Posted inArts & Culture
Protest fashion is all the rage
Is the revolution in clothing design a sign of a bigger revolt to come?
Posted inFood & Drink
At Regards to Edith, old-school Chicago eats in a changing neighborhood
Heisler Hospitality’s 12th restaurant is the latest breath into the Fulton Market District restaurant bubble.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What happened to the early, funny Savage Love columnist?
Dan Savage confronts a critic, advises a POS, and more.
Posted inMusic
The Third Coming of the Jesus Lizard
On the eve of their latest return home, the Jesus Lizard talk about why they chose Chicago—and how they became its most beautiful noise-rock monsters.