The Beermiscuous Field Guide and Beer Lover’s Chicago approach the task of providing a guidebook to Chicagoland breweries in different ways.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 11
Issue of Dec. 14 – 20, 2017
Posted inFilm
The Shape of Water is wondrous, but woefully narrow-minded
The visual achievement of Guillermo del Toro’s new fantasy can’t alleviate its reductive worldview.
Posted inArts & Culture
Beautiful, Bad Hombres, and nine more holiday stage shows to see
An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week’s best bets.
Posted inBlogs
Journalist Jamie Kalven won’t be forced to identify his Laquan McDonald story sources, and other Chicago news
Also, a judge has banned Dennis Hastert from unsupervised contact with minors and porn.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
On the spectrum, and giving off the wrong signals
Dan Savage advises a letter writer in search of sex advice for those on the spectrum, and more.
Posted inFood & Drink
With Marisol inside the MCA, Jason Hammel paints a new canvas
The Lula Cafe chef’s menu is its own form of contemporary art.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago’s only brewery-distillery gets into the bar business with Maplewood Lounge
Maplewood Brewery & Distillery is finally releasing its spirits to the public with the opening of its new Logan Square tasting room.
Posted inBlogs
Ayako Kato’s three-month movement workshop Art of Now III culminates with an experimental performance concert
Facilitator Ayako Kato says she started her workshop to “offer an opportunity to overcome loneliness.”
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The latest plans for the O’Hare Express: boon or boondoggle?
Transportation experts and advocates weigh in.
Posted inNews & Politics
The new public face of Rahm Emanuel’s school closing policies
The mayor brings in a new CPS CEO, Janice Jackson, just in time to shutter more schools.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago music-scene photographer Tim Nagle talks about his first book, Take It Outside
Tim Nagle has embedded himself in the city’s young rock and hip-hop scenes, and he draws on his friends there for a book-release party on Tuesday at Schubas.
Posted inNews & Politics
Suicide along the el
Heartbreak, trauma, economics, and the CTA’s new prevention effort
Posted inArts & Culture
Turandot isn’t just problematic—it’s complicated
Puccini’s opera returns to the Lyric, and so does its troubling Orientalism.
Posted inArts & Culture
Red Velvet is a singular anti-achievement
Lolita Chakrabarti’s biodrama about the first black actor to play Othello on the London stage gets the story wrong for all the wrong reasons.