Until then, it relies too heavily on stale old jokes.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 29
Issue of Apr. 25 – May. 1, 2019
Posted inFood & Drink
Sol Café wants to bring more to Rogers Park than just specialty coffee
“Sol is really, truly for everybody,” says owner Simone Freeman.
Posted inMusic
An edited loop on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by designer Aaron Lowell Denton, based in Bloomington, Indiana.
Posted inArts & Culture
First Love is the Revolution examines the brutal nature of humans and other animals
In Rita Kalnejais’s modern fable, parents pass on their prejudices to their children.
Posted inArts & Culture
The stage musical of Footloose is just like the movie except without the boring parts
Kick off your Sunday shoes.
Posted inArts & Culture
Buyer & Cellar explores Barbra Streisand’s (make-believe) basement shopping mall
It’s only pain and darkness there.
Posted inCity Life
There are baby goats at GlennArt Farm in South Austin
Inside a working urban farm, yoga studio, and community hub
Posted inMusic
The Maypole Folk Festival builds a big tent
The Maypole Folk Festival builds a big tent, the Goldstars lead a crowded tribute to R&B icon Andre Williams, and more.
Posted inMusic
Operation Hennessy digs a new channel for Chicago hip-hop
Keen-eyed rapper Qari hooks up with producer Green Sllime for Operation Hennessy—and opens the floodgates on his friend’s reservoir of irreverent old-school beats.
Posted inMusic
The Infinitives’ only release is among the most collectible records in garage rock
In 1966 this teenage band from Des Plaines recorded two drastically reworked country songs written by a neighbor who caught one of their gigs.
Posted inFilm
Movie Tuesday: Art imitating life
Five films in which directors look at themselves via autobiographical stand-ins
Posted inNews & Politics
Making the news
This comic has been created for the Reader to document the year-long, citywide event series Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots. Coordinated by the Newberry Library and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the initiative seeks to address difficult history through community conversations across the city. v Credit: Anya Davidson
Posted inMusic
The reunion of the original Misfits is pure punk-rock joy
Hands-down the funniest moment of 2016 happened at Riot Fest, during the insanely hyped reunion of Misfits members Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein. In the middle of an uncomfortably long stretch of between-song banter, while the front man explained how he thought the giant glowing pumpkins on the stage were “cool […]
Posted inMusic
Chicago hip-hop series All Smiles signs off with a generation-spanning blowout
No other series has done as much to demonstrate the breadth and depth of contemporary Chicago hip-hop as All Smiles. Launched seven years ago by rapper-singer Rich Jones, the intergenerational monthly showcase says goodbye tonight with a lineup that speaks to its long history of bringing together locals from different cliques and eras. Jones began […]
Posted inMusic
On Mint, global citizen Alice Merton unpacks her nomadic lifestyle
Europe was way ahead of the United States with Alice Merton: Her 2016 single “No Roots” made it to number two on the German charts in 2017 and charted all over the continent—including in France, Italy, Belgium, and Poland—before finally hitting the American market hard last year. If you’ve heard the song’s opening riff and […]