Volume 48, Number 34
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 34
Issue of May. 30 – Jun. 5, 2019
Posted inArts & Culture
Essential reading for Pride Month
Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today
Posted inFood & Drink
A brief history of ramen
An excerpt from Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan’s forthcoming comic cookbook Let’s Make Ramen!
Posted inCity Life
Eat a tomato, thank the bumblebee
A bee brain is vastly more efficient than a human brain.
Posted inMusic
ESS engineer Alex Inglizian on the synth module that changed his life
Current musical obsessions of ESS engineer Alex Inglizian, Rob Frye of Bitchin Bajas and Flux Bikes, and the Reader’s Philip Montoro
Posted inArts & Culture
Started from the Bottomyards, now we’re gentrified
A hyper-colored, Afrofuturistic graphic novel captures how white privilege feeds on Black neighborhoods.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Going to the source
Seymour Hersh on the challenge of quoting people who have something to say but don’t want to publicly say it
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Weddings aren’t terrible, people are
Cup the balls, elope, and more answers to your burning questions
Posted inFilm
Transit follows a group of refugees in Marseille hoping for a better life
The book’s set in 1944. The movie’s in 2019. The story’s still a profound meditation on statelessness.
Posted inArts & Culture
Style & Grace pays tribute to Lena Horne and Nancy Wilson
Black Ensemble Theater’s latest bio-musical tells the stories of two great jazz divas.
Posted inArts & Culture
In Six, Henry VIII’s wives come back as pop divas
Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived—and slaying.
Posted inArts & Culture
For Services Rendered explores the ongoing trauma of World War I
It also offers a sharp critique of the British political system.
Posted inArts & Culture
Volta brings back the full death-defying Cirque du Soleil experience
The ever-present danger is as much a part of a Cirque show as the spectacle.
Posted inArts & Culture
Organic Theater takes a bold stab at The Memo, Václav Havel’s absurdist satire
Bureaucracy, sweet bureaucracy!