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Home » Vol. 47 No. 28

Tag: Vol. 47 No. 28

Issue of Apr. 19 – 25, 2018

Posted inNews & Politics

These photos should get you in the mood to clean and green on Earth Day

by Jamie Ramsay April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

Volunteer in Austin, Humboldt Park, Garfield Park or along the lakefront this weekend.

Posted inFilm

There’s something ugly about I Feel Pretty

by Leah Pickett April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

In the new Amy Schumer comedy, the road to empowerment leads straight to the cash register.

Posted inNews & Politics

How dangerous are cows?

by Cecil Adams April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

The Straight Dope: Should you get a moo-ve on if a cow comes charging your way?

Posted inArts & Culture

Donizetti’s Il Pigmalione and Rita demonstrate two versions of love

by Deanna Isaacs April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

And there are clowns.

Posted inArts & Culture

Natural Affection hints at cracks in America’s postwar idyll

by Dmitry Samarov April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

Eclipse Theatre kicks off its season-long tribute to William Inge with one of his lesser works.

Posted inBlogs

If you can’t smoke weed right now, you might as well read about it

by Aimee Levitt April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

Cannabis, marijuana, reefer, mary jane, weed, pot, bud, herb, ganja, we’ve covered it all.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago-based Kitchen Toke, the first zine devoted to cooking with weed, preaches the green word

by Steve Heisler April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

Along with providing recipes, the new quarterly demystifies weed as a stoner staple.

Posted inReader

Print Issue of April 19, 2018

by Chicago Reader April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

The Pot Issue

Posted inNews & Politics

Happy #420Day, Chicago

by Reader staff April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Weed Day coverage: a Chicago zine devoted to cooking with pot, how to take a weed bath, dealing with stoned drivers—and more.

Posted inFilm

Chicago Palestine Film Festival: past versus present, neighbor versus neighbor

by Andrea Gronvall April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Tensions between Palestinians and Israelis, tradition and modernity mark the 17th edition of the long-running festival at Gene Siskel Film Center.

Posted inArts & Culture

Facility Theatre presents an intricate, complicated Little Match Girl Passion

by Justin Hayford April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Composer David Lang and director Dado turns Hans Christian Andersen’s tragic fairy tale into a performance installation.

Posted inArts & Culture

33 to Nothing’s speakers go up to 11

by Oliver Sava April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Grant James Varjas’s new play is a band rehearsal in real time—and it gets really loud.

Posted inArts & Culture

Three women fight back against sexual harassment—1970s style—in 9 to 5 the Musical.

by Marissa Oberlander April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Firebrand Theatre produces an uplifting and of-the-moment musical comedy based on the 1980 film.

Posted inBlogs

The time Chicago skinheads beat up a Nazi

by Leor Galil April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Yes, Chicago does have a history of punks who’ve shown Nazis what’s what.

Posted inNews & Politics

Here’s what happened when I took a weed bath

by Melanie LaForce April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Can you get high from soaking in a tub full of pot-infused bath salts?

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