An eating contest, a water fight, and som tam-making contest, and 18 Thai restaurants celebrate a belated Songkran in Uptown this weekend.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 31
Issue of May. 10 – 16, 2018
Posted inBlogs
East Side residents enraged by manganese pollution tear into city and federal officials
“Half-assed everything, that’s what we get.”
Posted inArts & Culture
Crossing Aviva might be enjoyable if it left any room to breathe
There are so many narratives the show requires an LED crawl to keep them straight.
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Older and Wider at Second City E.T.C. and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Shabazz Palaces at the Empty Bottle and more goings-on 5/11-5/13.
Posted inArts & Culture
There’s a great play to be written about bigotry in Evanston in the early 20th century
The cumbersome, contrived, and dull A Home on the Lake is not it.
Posted inArts & Culture
Greenhouse Theater’s Birds of a Feather never really takes flight
Charitably, Marc Acito’s show can be considered children’s theater for adults.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago Craft Beer Week is no more; all hail Illinois Craft Beer Week
Illinois Craft Beer Week features a new festival, plus it’s short and sweet this year at only one week long.
Posted inBlogs
Remember when you had to explain what a podcast was?
Looking back at Market Frenzy, one of the first local music podcasts that launched in (gasp!) 2005.
Posted inNews & Politics
Why is coca only cultivated in South America?
Other lucrative plants like coffee and chocolate are grown in multiple locations.
Posted inBlogs
Cutting court interpreters threatens due process rights, even victim safety, union says
The pain of the repeal of the soda tax continues to fizzle.
Posted inBlogs
An interview with Jon Moritsugu, director of Mod Fuck Explosion
The veteran underground filmmaker reflects on his four-decade career.
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Check out the first single from the upcoming LP by Chicago punk mainstays the Brokedowns
The Brokedowns keep on outliving other punk bands, and on the new single from the upcoming Sick of Space, these grown-ass adults still rule.
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Orquesta Akokán resurrect the thrilling sound of 40s Cuba with modern singer José ‘Pepito’ Gómez
The sessions for Orquesta Akokán’s stellar debut album were organized in Havana by a pair of Afro-Cuban music lovers from New York.
Posted inArts & Culture
Prometheus Bound remains inert
The eponymous Prometheus is seen not so much as standing for anything as he is standing, basta.