With the Planda Group the chef can throw a party, and teach the ailing to cook.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 9
Issue of Nov. 29 – Dec. 5, 2018
Posted inColumns & Opinion
‘Am I just bipolar and kinky? Are the two related somehow?’
Advice on avoiding a hypersexual state. Plus: Embracing hyperfeminine presentation, and more.
Posted inNews & Politics
Thanks to Womencare Counseling Center, no more claims that you can’t afford therapy
The center has sliding scale pricing and feminist-focused mental health services.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A note from the editor
As the first snowfalls of winter pummel our work-weary faces, it’s difficult to keep in mind that Chicago can be a safe haven, a destination for refugees, a warm and comforting environment for folks escaping the ravages of poverty and government oppression and war. Some felt it viscerally this week, as American border officials fired […]
Posted inArts & Culture
‘Chicago New Media 1973-1992’ pays tribute to the city’s contribution to video games and digital art
On the frontier of free information, experimentation, and self-expression.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Lincoln Yards TIF will benefit development firm Sterling Bay—but cost Chicagoans
Rahm’s pet development project will mean higher property taxes and less money for schools.
Posted inNews & Politics
CPS sat on evidence of record falsification for months before removing Ogden principal
Michael Beyer is suing the district for due process violations amid historic merger.
Posted inNews & Politics
Report from a Syrian refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan
An excerpt from the comics journalism collection Escaping Wars and Waves.
Posted inMusic
Kranky partners with Ambient Church to celebrate its 25th birthday in the city of its birth
Update 12.06.18: Windy & Carl will no longer be performing at this event due to a family emergency. Matt Jencik has been added to play an opening set. The drifting, beatless songs and subtly abraded electronic textures of Labradford’s 1993 LP Prazision were a shot across the bow of corporate grunge, indie rock, and pretty […]
Posted inMusic
Virginia native 93Feetofsmoke knows what’s alluring about Soundcloud rap—and shows he can break free of it on Bummer
I’m not sure who, if anyone, will end up filling the Lil Peep-size hole in rap, but there are an awful lot of white rappers cribbing from third-wave emo’s salad days who seem like they’d love to do just that. Tonight’s show features artists who’ve made a home in similar frameworks as Peep, though such […]
Posted inMusic
Travis Scott has delivered a feat in hip-hop artistry with the long-awaited Astroworld
About a year ago, former President Barack Obama included “Butterfly Effect” by Travis Scott on a list of his favorite songs of 2017. It’s crazy to think back to a time when we had a president who—along with not being the worst person to walk the earth—had really good taste in music and culture. It’s […]
Posted inMusic
Folk rock pioneer Richard Thompson sings more about mortality and loss
Fifty years have passed since Fairport Convention released their self-titled first album, a charmingly eclectic mishmosh of earnest pop tunes and American singer-songwriter covers enlivened by an astonishingly dexterous teenage guitarist named Richard Thompson. Over the next few years, Fairport evolved into the flagship band of English folk rock, and their guitarist forged his disparate […]
Posted inMusic
Mexican black metal progenitors Xibalba Itzaes explore indigenous traditions and mysticism on Ah Tza Xibalba Itzaes
Mexico City black-metal band Xibalba Itzaes started out in the early 90s. The word xibalba means “the place of fear,” or the underworld, in Mayan culture, and like their contemporaries Brujeria, they take occult cosmology of traditional Mexican magic as their foundation, but they also delve deep into indigenous spiritual history. Xibalba Itzaes released one […]