The couple behind Wasabi and Ramen Takeya open a ramen lab in Lincoln Square.
Tag: Vol. 49 No. 22
Issue of Mar. 5 – 11, 2020
Posted inArts & Culture
Belkis Ayón retrospective, the International Women’s Day Festival, and more to do this weekend
Arts and culture happenings from Fri 3/6 to Sun 3/8.
Posted inArts & Culture
What the Constitution Means to Me lands in Chicago
Maria Dizzia talks about playing Heidi Schreck, high school debate, and the power of the 14th Amendment.
Posted inNews & Politics
The other Senate
Back by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the elections to offer you a glimpse of the 2020 Chicago-area Illinois […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Should I treat my throat like a Fleshlight?
Plus, advice for a man who just wants his wife to wear a fake cast.
Posted inArts & Culture
Motherhood changes you—and your art
Gwendolyn Zabicki’s attention to time is the focus of her exhibition at Heaven Gallery.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Arguing With Zombies with a pandemic at the gates
As the threat of coronavirus looms, Paul Krugman dissects GOP talking points that refuse to die.
Posted inFilm
The 70mm Film Festival is back
The Music Box once again introduces modern audiences to the “road show” moviegoing experience.
Posted inNews & Politics
Capital of the midwest
Is Chicago an island of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural, inexpensive, stultifying friendliness?
Posted inNews & Politics
We want somebody somebody sent: electing Committeemen
Back by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the elections to offer you a glimpse of the 2020 Chicago-area Illinois […]
Posted inMusic
Uphill both ways on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicagoan John Vernon Forbes at Black Pisces Prints.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Panic peddlers
Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie.
Posted inMusic
Chicago postpunk gets its Wu-Tang Clan
Local label Chicago Research has built a powerful, tight-knit collective of dark underground rock and electronic artists.
Posted inArts & Culture
Haven hands us an extra-tense Titus Andronicus
Complicating gender and racial identity adds texture to the gory Shakespearean stew.
Posted inArts & Culture
Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman is Gorey-meets-Kafka
Gift Theatre brings a dark fable to life.