Current musical obsessions of Slumpgang777 rapper Vagabond Maurice, hip-hop duo Glitter Moneyyy, and Reader digital managing editor Karen Hawkins
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 17
Issue of Jan. 31 – Feb. 6, 2019
Posted inNews & Politics
Writing off the activists: the 37th Ward
The leading City Council proponent for putting the unpopular police academy in her far west-side ward faces a tough race, and Ben and Maya are excited.
Posted inMusic
Typesetters gone wild on the gig poster of the week
ARTIST: Tim Curley SHOW: Pinebender, Parlour, Poison Arrows, and William Covert at the Co-Prosperity Sphere on Sat 2/2 MORE INFO: timothycurley.info
Posted inFilm
In its depiction of race, The Upside doesn’t have one
The American remake starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart lacks the heart of the French original.
Posted inMusic
Boundary-pushing jazz trio Twin Talk celebrate a gracefully daring new album
Boundary-pushing jazz trio Twin Talk celebrate a gracefully daring new album at the Hideout, the Girl Talk team discuss muting R. Kelly and supporting his survivors, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Four Chicago directors discuss the challenges of leading a theater production while female
“Theaters need to make space not just for the right numbers but for people’s different lived experiences.”
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How Rahm plans to spend the $1.3 billion in TIF tax dollars he’s giving to Lincoln Yards
Hint: it doesn’t involve helping low-income communities.
Posted inFilm
Ghost Cat, aka The Cat That Came Back, is the most bananas Elliot Page movie you’ve never heard of
Mystery, romance, shady development deals, and adorable supernatural feline footprints: what more could you ask for?
Posted inNews & Politics
Why does it look so weird: the First Ward
A classic political operator in the Bucktown / Wicker Park / Logan Square area leads Ben and Maya into a discussion of their relationships with Chicago’s aldermen.
Posted inNews & Politics
Archive dive: ‘What kind of paper is this anyway?’
When the Reader first got started, there was a lot of explaining to do.
Posted inNews & Politics
Can Toni Preckwinkle distance herself from the machine?
She’s tried to position herself as a progressive outsider but still has a reputation as the “Boss.”
Posted inNews & Politics
Q&A with mayoral candidate Toni Preckwinkle
“It’s really critical that as mayor you have good working relationships with all of the constituencies that make up the city.”
Posted inNews & Politics
‘Don’t push us out’
The First and 26th Wards will vote on a nonbinding referendum that asks whether Illinois should lift the ban on rent control—prohibited in the state since 1997.
Posted inNews & Politics
The front man on all those TIF deals: the 40th Ward
The public face of some of Chicago’s worst deals—the Olympics, ongoing TIF deals, and the parking meter sale—is City Council’s new finance committee chair, and Ben and Maya have plenty to look at in his ward.
Posted inNews & Politics
You have to pass the bill to know what’s in it: the 33rd Ward
Ben and Maya discuss Albany Park’s powerful and well-connected alderman Deb Mell and her exciting DSA-backed challenger, Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez.