The tension at Wildwood Elementary comes as the Jon Burge police torture curriculum is rolled out across the district.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 14 – 20, 2018
Posted inArts & Culture
Too many metaphors spoil the drama in Opportunities of Extinction
This Broken Nose production fails to find its rhythm.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Deckchairs can’t make American political comedy great again
Instead, the show just highlights our Donald Trump fatigue.
Posted inArts & Culture
The 1980s AIDS epidemic in Chicago revisited in Rebecca Makkai’s new novel, The Great Believers
“I would love for people who lived through this to feel some recognition, to feel some catharsis.”
Posted inFilm
Upgrade is so derivative, it’s original
Horror director Leigh Whannell rips off so many other movies that his new feature becomes a collage.
Posted inArts & Culture
In The Displaced, the ghosts of gentrification won’t leave a young couple alone
Bumps in the night blend with poignant social commentary.
Posted inArts & Culture
There’s no devil in Burnham’s Dream: The White City, only music
Ragtime! Waltzes! World’s Fair architecture!
Posted inFood & Drink
Under chef Erling Wu-Bower, Pacific Standard Time is now
The River North restaurant presents a distinctive vision of a west-coast oasis in the midwest.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago corruption for sightseers: Walking tours show seedy underbelly of the city’s politics
“I lure them in with promises of wacky Blagojevich stories, and leave them with civics,” journalist Paul Dailing muses.
Posted inArts & Culture
Don’t miss these 12 Pride-themed events
Chicago Pride Fest, Steamworks: The Musical, dessert from the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, and more
Posted inMusic
Drummer and composer Bill Harris on a Chicago iconoclast who can make an album feel like an epic film
Current musical obsessions of drummer and composer Bill Harris, clarinetist and composer Angel Bat Dawid, and Reader music critic Peter Margasak
Posted inArts & Culture
Two Guards at the Taj meditate on the nature of beauty
The most beautiful thing ever made also contains unspeakable suffering.
Posted inArts & Culture
Daniel Kyri turns in a triumphant performance in the Gift’s Hamlet
He brings utter control over the language and a quality of hard-won majesty to the role.
Posted inBlogs
Can a Division Street cocktail bar truly capture the spirit of Nelson Algren?
The Neon Wilderness will try, but the phrase “Algren-inspired bar” makes Algren scholar Bill Savage groan.