Educator and photographer Rose Velez draws on her Caribbean roots and current infatuation with New Orleans in crafting her style.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 33
Issue of May. 24 – 30, 2018
Posted inMusic
The Chicago House Party levels up to ‘music festival’ for 2018
The Chicago House Party levels up to ‘music festival’ for 2018, Andy Ortmann spends government money on subversive noise, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Nick Drnaso’s second graphic novel, Sabrina, examines the perils of living too long in your own head
Are you actually deranged? Or is it the rest of the world?
Posted inMusic
Crate diggers have caught up with the funky soul of Doug Shorts’s Master Plan Inc.
Decades after his greatest group disbanded, Chicago soul singer Doug Shorts is finally being recognized for his brilliance.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Transit boards overwhelmingly male, whiter than ridership
The Metra, RTA and Pace boards look more like the members of a country club than riders on a typical bus or rail car.
Posted inBlogs
After a chilly breakup record, Dirty Projectors regain their bubbly ebullience on Lamp Lit Prose
Dave Longstreth and Dirty Projectors support their joyful new album with a tour that brings them to Thalia Hall on Tuesday.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago’s next great park? Hardly
The city is missing a huge opportunity to turn Rezkoville, 62 acres of barren land along the river in the South Loop, into a park or prairie preserve.
Posted inBlogs
City Council should investigate Rahm, not Lori Lightfoot
There are a lot more questions we need answers to about Mayor Rahm than about his former police board chair.
Posted inBlogs
A note from the harsh macho underground
Or 1990s Wicker Park encapsulated in a single letter to the editor by Weasel Walter.
Posted inBlogs
The Sea and Cake and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
A New Attitude: In Tribute to Patti LaBelle and more goings-on 5/21-5/24
Posted inBlogs
Fever Ray’s erotically charged electro-pop dazzles at any time of night
Fever Ray added an early show at Metro after the late one sold out, raising the question of how well sexy dance parties mesh with evening commutes.
Posted inBlogs
The city’s only black-owned gay bar, the Jeffery Pub, in photos
The south-side club’s drag shows are spectacular, true, but this venerable club has much more to offer.
Posted inNews & Politics
‘How did the terms nuts and bananas come to refer to something or someone as crazy?’
Cecil goes crazy in this week’s Straight Dope.
Posted inBlogs
Immigration activist who took sanctuary in Humboldt Park church spotlighted in Elvira
Noted activist Elvira Arellano reflects on her experience as a spokesperson for the immigrant rights movement.
Posted inBlogs
Jimmy Papadopoulos of Bellemore poaches fish in the world’s most expensive edible oil
Challenged to create a dish with argan oil—better known as a hair and skin care product than a cooking ingredient—chef Jimmy Papadopoulos tries to subdue the pungent oil.