The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing is revelatory; The Scarlet Ibis is not.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 20
Issue of Feb. 21 – 27, 2019
Posted inNews & Politics
Napolitano’s challenger hopes the 41st Ward isn’t as bigoted as it seems
The far-northwest-side aldermanic race may hinge on affordable housing—but not the way you think.
Posted inNews & Politics
Aldermania! The Board Game
Like politics, the rules are simple. If you break them, don’t get caught.
Posted inReader
The Ben Joravsky Show returns February 27
Ben is back on the air. The Ben Joravsky Show will launch Wednesday, February 27, as a livestream and podcast presented by the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Soccer Player in the Closet attempts to conjure the existential despair of the handset and the Pringles tube
Unfortunately, Nothing Without a Company can’t make this interesting theater.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Total Bent is more than a great musical—it’s great art
It’s also a bitingly irreverent satire.
Posted inArts & Culture
Haymarket Books publishes reading material for radicals
From political theory to hip-hop poetry, the Chicago publisher sells not just books, but the idea of a new society.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
When your lobster isn’t extra enough
Savage fields suggestions for another sexual neologism.
Posted inArts & Culture
Raven’s How I Learned to Drive lacks horsepower
Paula Vogel’s play is a stunner, but this production hits a few wrong notes.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Abuelas builds up to a few moments of poignancy but not much else
The companion to The Madres tries to jam too much drama into a slipshod theatrical framework.
Posted inMusic
After 46 years of blood spitting and pyrotechnics, Kiss call it a day (so they say)
The makeup, the pyrotechnics, the guitars that shoot fireworks, the blood spitting, the levitating band members, the fire breathing, the glitz, the glamour, the rock ’n’ rolling every night and the partying every day . . . after 46 years, it’s all coming to an end, apparently, as Kiss—one of the most ridiculous rock spectacles […]
Posted inMusic
Evanston’s Manwolves hunt for pop gold with the help of hip-hop, jazz, and yacht rock on A Safety Meeting
There’s a dangerously high likelihood that a group of white guys who heavily incorporate rapping and hip-hop aesthetics into their sound will fall into that odd frat-rock zone occupied by jam fans and Dave Matthews acolytes. Manwolves started as an after-school activity by Evanston Township High School students in 2012, have sidestepped such a cheesy […]
Posted inMusic
Punk veterans Planes Mistaken for Stars keep pushing forward on Prey
Listening to the 1999 self-titled debut EP by Planes Mistaken for Stars feels like taking a bullet train back to the year it was released. The record’s twinkly guitars, vocals that mix anguished croons and explosive shrieks, and urgent, vaguely poetic lyrics are clear hallmarks of that specific moment in emotional hardcore. The past couple […]
Posted inMusic
Jazz quartet Black Diamond debut their new album at eclectic show Zoetic
Black Diamond recorded their brand-new album, Chant (Shifting Paradigm), during a five-week residency at beloved Logan Square venue the Whistler. But rather than host a traditional release show, the two-tenor-saxophone quartet, co-led by Artie Black and Hunter Diamond, are taking part in a multidisciplinary event called Zoetic: A Celebration of Visual, Aural, and Botanic Art. […]