Current musical obsessions of Chicago singer-songwriters Tatiana Hazel and Melo Makes Music and Reader intern Julia Hale
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 5
Issue of Nov. 1 – 7, 2018
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Tips for men who want to make walking, biking, and transit a little less crummy for women
“If a woman has headphones on, she doesn’t want to talk to anyone unless the train is literally on fire.”
Posted inNews & Politics
A Visual Voter’s Guide
Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A note from the editor
The sharpest political mind in southeastern Michigan belongs to a 15-year-old girl named Sadia. She’s not old enough to vote, nor is she a citizen—and neither are her parents. Plus she’s superbusy. She’s got school, and then because, birth order-wise, she sits somewhere in the middle of a gaggle of kids, some of whom have […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Artist-chemist Michael Koerner uses tintypes to explore his genetic heritage in his solo show, “My DNA”
These chemigrams mimic the chromosomal mutations he inherited from his parents.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Last Session’s backstory makes it more than a relic of the AIDS crisis
Playwright Steve Schalchlin’s survival turns the musical into something hopeful and defiant.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Darkness After Dawn isn’t quite the Ashley Judd-in-peril-style thriller we were hoping for
Tropes of the genre just don’t work onstage the same way they do on-screen.
Posted inBlogs
Today Andersonville has a record store again
Rattleback Records, opened by a retired elementary school principal who lives in Edgewater, sells new and used vinyl, CDs, and cassettes.
Posted inNews & Politics
Efforts to turn Cook County Jail into a polling location persist following governor’s veto
Though House Bill 4469 to turn Cook County Jail into an official polling location remains at a standstill, representatives who worked on the bill remain positive and motivated.
Posted inNews & Politics
Cook County judicial elections stir up unusual public scrutiny
Next week’s election could be the first in nearly 30 years to unseat a Cook County judge
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How to get your groove back after giving birth
A pelvic floor physical therapist comes to the rescue. Plus: Dan gives advice to a straight woman in love with a gay man.
Posted inArts & Culture
Surrealistic elements help Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies transcend its sitcom origins
Like the black experience, the show is messy, fun, shocking, and unpredictable.
Posted inFilm
In his latest documentary, Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman is curiously uninterested in the human inhabitants of a small town
The director has always been fascinated by processes, but this time the people behind them scarcely register.