Revisiting a murder in the White City.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 18
Issue of Feb. 7 – 13, 2019
Posted inFilm
Just My Luck teaches us that a kiss is the best way to change your fortunes.
Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine totally swapped career trajectories, so we know it’s true.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Joffrey premieres a brand-new Anna Karenina
The ballet company built its Tolstoy adaptation from the ground up.
Posted inNews & Politics
No one is running: the 42nd Ward
The race in the ward that economically drives the entire city of Chicago is totally uncontested, and Ben and Maya look at why.
Posted inArts & Culture
Cecil McDonald’s extraordinary photos of ordinary life
“In the Company of Black” is now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Ida B. Wells Drive makes Chicago history
It’s the city’s first-ever downtown roadway to honor an African-American woman; the cost is that Balbo’s street name remains intact.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Remembering industrial designer Charles Harrison
A tribute to the designer of the View-Master, the Dial-O-Matic, and the plastic garbage can—and the first black executive at Sears.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The many lives of Alderman Danny Solis
Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.
Posted inNews & Politics
Not even trying to pretend: the 46th Ward
Ben and Maya look at the fight between low-income housing and neighborhood amenities in rapidly changing Uptown.
Posted inArts & Culture
Lit recs for the reader in search of adventure
The current book obsessions of Northwestern prof Bill Savage and Reader culture editor Aimee Levitt
Posted inNews & Politics
What can we expect from our elected officials: the 22nd Ward
Departing progressive alderman Rick Munoz faces personal trouble in advance of the election, placing successor Michael Rodriguez’s race in jeopardy, in staunchly independent Little Village.
Posted inNews & Politics
Ties to Kanye West and Michelle Obama: the Fifth Ward
The future site of the Obama Presidential Center and the home of the University of Chicago also encompasses parts of lower-income South Shore, which Ben and Maya think makes for a fascinating aldermanic race.
Posted inArts & Culture
ShawChicago turns a staged reading of Arms and the Man into a symphony
It’s a perfect anti-romantic comedy, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Posted inArts & Culture
Not even an injured knee can stop Nina Stemme’s powerful performance as Elektra
The soprano makes an impressive Lyric debut.