The devil’s in the details.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 33
Issue of May. 24 – 30, 2018
Last week’s Reader cover art was actually an intricate 3D paper cutout
Artist Yang Pulongbarit-Cuevo created this week’s elaborate cover.
Why are different races correlated with two different types of earwax, and when did this divergence occur?
A bold new era for earwax research has dawned.
The Memorial Day Parade and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Bike the Drive and more goings-on 5/25-5/28.
Girl Found is still lost
Barbara Lhota’s new play raises questions it can’t answer.
L’Enfant Secret is so intimate it feels like a confession
With this hard-to-see 1979 feature, French director Philippe Garrel moves past narrative to focus on intense emotion.
Refrigerator is a chilling look into the near future
Playwright Lucas Baisch imagines a world when we’ll all be fighting to be uploaded to the cloud.
That time a Cook County judge ruled on the case of a man he himself put in prison when he was still a prosecutor
In 2006 John Conroy reported an incredible story about how the Jon Burge torture scandal continues to reverberate in the judiciary
Fisk & Co. flexes its mussels
But this seafood-focused spot in the Kimpton Hotel Monaco needs to work on its public-facing side.
The Laramie Project charts an important moment in the struggle for LGBTQ rights in America
This is a docudrama with the soul of an epic.
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed finds pride at the root of despair
Ethan Hawke stars in the director’s new spiritual drama, as a minister who can’t talk to his boss.
Having Our Say is a fitting tribute to the indomitable Delany sisters
Bessie and Sadie Delany celebrate more than a century of badassery.
Dealing with slaughter in the schools, Congress should follow the example of John Wayne
Congress should tell killers of schoolchildren to pick on someone their own size.
The Book of Maggie follows an epic quest to preserve Armageddon
The fate of the day of rapture lies of the shoulders of Judas Iscariot.