Volume 47, Number 5
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 4
Issue of Nov. 2 – 8, 2017
Posted inFilm
With Human Flow, Ai Weiwei takes a global perspective on refugee crises
The latest documentary from the Chinese artist and filmmaker presents all exiled peoples as one.
Posted inFilm
Thank You for Your Service should have played it by the book
Miles Teller stars in this adaptation of David Finkel’s examination of the mental-health crisis among U.S. veterans.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see
A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week’s best bets.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
When SPH invites DTMFA . . .
Dan Savage advises a man whose partner wants to “humiliate” him about his “small pee-pee, and more.”
Posted inArts & Culture
In its new revue, Second City skewers Trump with Pixy Stix
Chicago comedy’s tentpole theater plays it way too safe, with satire digging only orange-skin-deep.
Posted inFood & Drink
Leviathan is a bar that’s easy to love, tentacles and all
The Dana Hotel’s sea monster-inspired bar brings the ocean to downtown Chicago.
Posted inBlogs
Fake Shore Drive founder Andrew Barber on ten years of blogging and the evolution of the Chicago hip-hop scene
Fake Shore Drive has grown alongside Chicago rap, becoming an institution in its own right—and it celebrates its tenth anniversary by reuniting Big Tymers for a show at the Portage.
Posted inBlogs
Emanuel: Chicago will ‘learn something’ from Manhattan terror attack, and other news
Also, the Obamas would rather have a conversation with fans than take a selfie.
Posted inArts & Culture
Who’s Alice Childress? We should all know
The civil rights-era playwright’s Wedding Band is an indispensable look at what we’ve been missing.
Posted inFood & Drink
Portsmith is a safe harbor for quality seafood
The Fifty/50 Group brings an ocean-focused menu to the Dana Hotel.
Posted inBlogs
Influential pianist, composer, and AACM cofounder Muhal Richard Abrams dies at 87
Muhal Richard Abrams earned the love and respect of peers and listeners alike with his erudition, vision, and self-determined creative path.
Posted inArts & Culture
A Black Panther Party retrospective eerily recalls the present day
An exhibit at the Westside Center for Justice demonstrates how little things have changed when it comes to racism and the surveillance state.
Posted inBlogs
Todd Haynes’s first film for kids may also be his saddest movie yet
In Wonderstruck, wonder is a coping mechanism.
Posted inBlogs
There’s a fortress of solitude on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by Daniel MacAdam of Crosshair Design.