Jane Bond: Funny But Deadly and more goings-on March 2-4
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 21
Issue of Mar. 1 – 7, 2018
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.
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
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.
Loveless places narrow lives inside a wide-screen frame
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return) uses empty spaces to define a dead marriage.
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.
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.
Trump cuts food stamps while looking for a handout for his hotel in Mississippi
And other recent acts in the season of hypocrisy
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Santa crashes a hoedown on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Joe Schorgl.