Don’t be fooled. The mayor isn’t gone yet, and neither are the problems he’s leaving behind.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 4
Issue of Oct. 25 – 31, 2018
Posted inBlogs
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are feuding—and these women in Chicago rap don’t see the point
Psalm One, Akenya, Sisi Dior, Chimeka, and Mother Nature talk about sisterhood, mutual support, and the pernicious notion that hip-hop has room for only one female star at a time.
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The new Suspiria manages to be about women’s power without being feminist
Luca Guadagnino’s remake takes too much pleasure in the destruction of women.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago noise-rock duo Djunah premier a video that puts the Brett Kavanaughs of the world on notice
Members of the dearly departed Beat Drun Juel and Fake Limbs have joined forces as Djunah, and they play Lincoln Hall this week.
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What we learned this weekend at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Jerry Saltz, Alex Ross, women’s anger, and why historians sort of miss Richard Nixon
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Photographer Jen Jansen has her Beast in control
At her Bucktown studio the restorer and tintype specialist keeps the antique process alive with a made-in-Chicago Deardorff 11×14 studio camera from the 20s.
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Why should the government interfere with the very personal process of gender identity?
Days after a Trump administration memo calls for a strict binary definition of gender, the Intersex Justice Project marches to protest surgeries on babies and children with ambiguous genitalia.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A note from the editor
The best thing about diversifying a newsroom staff is that the range of relevant events, histories, vocabularies, and concerns increases exponentially. There’s just so much more news! The worst thing, however, is that the concerns that arise become harder to view from a distance. Unionization efforts, property tax assessment discrepancies, sexual harassment, and antiblack violence […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Pop-up restaurant Sao Song minds Chicago’s gap in Lao food
It’s a first step toward chef Andy Sisomboune’s dream of a brick-and-mortar spot.
Posted inArts & Culture
In Dolores Prida’s semiautobiographical play Casa Propia, a Cuban immigrant family deals with home ownership
Director Sándor Menéndez creates an adult fairy tale, complete with songs.
Posted inFilm
Director Tamara Jenkins returns with Private Life, a sharp and funny examination of infertility and art
A middle-aged couple wonders, If you don’t leave behind a child or a lasting piece of work, were you ever here at all?
Posted inFilm
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant make likably unlikable scoundrels in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller’s new biopic tells the story of 1980s celebrity letters forger Lee Israel.
Posted inArts & Culture
There are a lot of facts in Truman and the Birth of Israel, but they don’t add up to much
Instead this Greenhouse production invents its central dramatic incident to make its point.
Posted inBlogs
Warning, Democrats: a Rauner victory over Pritzker could turn Illinois into a red state
A second term by our current governor would feature more of the same thing: union bashing, budget slashing, school privatization, etc.