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Home » Vol. 47 No. 31

Tag: Vol. 47 No. 31

Issue of May. 10 – 16, 2018

Posted inBlogs

Get wet at the first Thai New Year Water Festival

by Mike Sula May 16, 2018August 18, 2021

An eating contest, a water fight, and som tam-making contest, and 18 Thai restaurants celebrate a belated Songkran in Uptown this weekend.

Posted inBlogs

East Side residents enraged by manganese pollution tear into city and federal officials

by Maya Dukmasova May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

“Half-assed everything, that’s what we get.”

Posted inArts & Culture

Crossing Aviva might be enjoyable if it left any room to breathe

by Dmitry Samarov May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

There are so many narratives the show requires an LED crawl to keep them straight.

Posted inBlogs

Older and Wider at Second City E.T.C. and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

by Steve Heisler May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Tony Adler May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Justin Hayford May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Julia Thiel May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

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?

by Aimee Levitt May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

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?

by Cecil Adams May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Other lucrative plants like coffee and chocolate are grown in multiple locations.

Posted inReader

Print Issue of May 10, 2018

by Chicago Reader May 10, 2018August 18, 2021

Volume 47, Number 31

Posted inBlogs

Cutting court interpreters threatens due process rights, even victim safety, union says

by Maya Dukmasova May 10, 2018August 18, 2021

The pain of the repeal of the soda tax continues to fizzle.

Posted inBlogs

An interview with Jon Moritsugu, director of Mod Fuck Explosion

by Ben Sachs May 10, 2018August 18, 2021

The veteran underground filmmaker reflects on his four-decade career.

Posted inBlogs

Check out the first single from the upcoming LP by Chicago punk mainstays the Brokedowns

by Luca Cimarusti May 10, 2018August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Orquesta Akokán resurrect the thrilling sound of 40s Cuba with modern singer José ‘Pepito’ Gómez

by Peter Margasak May 10, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Max Maller May 10, 2018August 18, 2021

The eponymous Prometheus is seen not so much as standing for anything as he is standing, basta.

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