Behold the master at work.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 31
Issue of May. 9 – 15, 2019
Thinking with your genitals
Advice on e-mailing an awesome kisser who ghosted
Let’s make a deal
If corporate Chicago wants money for One Central, it should drop its fight against Pritzker’s Fair Tax initiative.
Flat & Point isn’t your Pawpaw’s barbecue
A Spiaggia vet is smoking something good in Logan Square.
CTA on celluloid
The city’s iconic elevated tracks, subways, and buses star in Hollywood flicks.
Demolición makes room in the north-side scene for Latinx rock
Dumpster Tapes books the Demolición festival to make room for Latinx rock in the self-segregated north-side scene.
Too Heavy for Your Pocket weighs the cost of making a difference
A Black college student’s decision to join the Freedom Riders has unexpected consequences for his wife and friends.
Ripped from the headlines of 1957, West Side Story still has plenty to say about 2019
The Lyric’s faithful revival addresses immigration, discrimination, and changing neighborhoods, but it’s the women who are the stars.
We can all learn a lot about water politics from the young artists who created Parched
Plus there’s an excellent joke about thirst traps.
Who thought that Matilda was suitable children’s entertainment?
Or maybe kids just have a higher tolerance for Roald Dahl’s sadism.
In Mad Hip Beat & Gone, two teens split Nebraska to find their bliss
Steven Dietz’s historical drama starts strong but gets “tangled up in roads.”
The Children vividly imagines the worst-case scenario after an environmental disaster.
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s devastated world is nightmarishly familiar.