Jane Bond: Funny But Deadly and more goings-on March 2-4
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 21
Issue of Mar. 1 – 7, 2018
Posted inBlogs
The Daphne festival elevates women and nonbinary DJs
The folks behind Daphne—including Eris Drew, Sold, and DJ Kiddo—discuss how the festival’s workshops aim to help women and nonbinary people claim their place in electronic-music history.
Posted inBlogs
Joravsky’s classic ‘A Simple Game’ is the greatest story you will ever read about high school basketball
A season with the 1991-’92 Roosevelt High School Rough Riders
Posted inFilm
Annihilation preserves the source novel’s biological nightmare but dispenses with its mounting paranoia
Director Alex Garland follows his acclaimed Ex Machina with this screen adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s sci-fi adventure.
Posted inFilm
Loveless places narrow lives inside a wide-screen frame
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return) uses empty spaces to define a dead marriage.
Posted inNews & Politics
Who are Chicago’s Dreamers? Here are the faces of DACA
Immigrants brought to the U.S. as children face an uncertain future with no compromise forthcoming.
Posted inArts & Culture
How an Evanston writer’s boyhood idea inspired ‘Shape of Water’
Guillermo del Toro tapped Daniel Kraus to help write the story behind the Oscar-nominated blockbuster.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Trump cuts food stamps while looking for a handout for his hotel in Mississippi
And other recent acts in the season of hypocrisy
Posted inBlogs
Jackson Park and Thompson Center lead Preservation Chicago’s annual list of the city’s seven most-endangered architectural treasures
Jackson Park is the designated site of the Obama Presidential Library.
Posted inBlogs
Obama: No community benefits agreement, and let’s move on
President Obama on the Obama Presidential Center: No community benefits agreement, and “let’s get moving.”
Posted inMusic
Towkio is officially Chicago’s highest rapper
Towkio’s balloon trip to the stratosphere wasn’t just to promote his first album for Rick Rubin—the Chicago rapper also wants to talk about inspiration, perspective, and togetherness.
Posted inBlogs
Why do we have parks? The answer may surprise you.
Early 20th century reformers wanted to give immigrants a place to get rid of their excess energy.
Posted inBlogs
My morning at the Pitchfork lineup reveal, or two hours of watching paint dry
A Reader intern discovers the life of excitement and glamour that is journalism.
Posted inBlogs
Santa crashes a hoedown on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Joe Schorgl.