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Tag: Vol. 49 No. 41
Issue of Aug. 6 – 19, 2020
Posted inFilm
Chicago Film Archives discovers The First Degree
The regional archive brings Edward Sedgwick’s 1923 silent film back to life.
Posted inNews & Politics
The Chicago police union is trying to put its members on the state’s torture inquiry commission
Two bills introduced in the state legislature are “a smack in the face,” says one torture survivor.
Posted inMusic
Steve Von Till finds beauty and humanity within a chaotic universe on No Wilderness Deep Enough
Steve Von Till is best known as co-front man of the mighty Neurosis, but for two decades the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and poet has also led an ambitious and expansive solo career. Under his own name he’s released dark pastoral folk, and as Harvestman he’s made dynamic, psych- and drone-infused music. On his new album, No […]
Posted inMusic
The Reader has 56 places to start your shopping this Bandcamp day
Just in case you’ve been waiting to spend your monthly music budget till more of it would go to artists and labels
Posted inMusic
Chicago indie rocker Jeff Kelley digs into experimental pop with Ocean Cult
Over the past decade, it’s often felt like everyone in Chicago’s underground-rock subscenes was legally required to have multiple projects, and Jeff Kelley certainly cleared that bar. He fronted frazzled art-rock group Vaya, mathy indie-pop outfit Dick Wolf!, and ragged new-wave band New Drugs. When he wasn’t making music, Kelley helped document the scene as […]
Posted inMusic
Goodbye to songwriter Michael Smith
With “The Dutchman” and other widely recorded songs, Michael Smith created emotional realities that let you feel along with his characters.
Posted inFilm
The worst Chicago movies are still worth a watch
Exploring the depths of Tubi TV for a glimpse at the Second City
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Do what you love
ArtNight, a passion-sharing show-and-tell, has moved online.
Posted inReader
Don’t miss our new book collecting Mike Sula’s best articles from the past 25 years of Chicago food, drink, and critters!
Don’t miss the newest Chicago Reader “Best of” book, a collection of pieces from more than two decades of work by senior writer Mike Sula: An Invasion of Gastronomic Proportions: My Adventures With Chicago Animals, Human and Otherwise.
Posted inMusic
Asheville trio Nest Egg smashes psychedelic sounds into postpunk oblivion on Dislocation
I was once at a Nest Egg gig where a friend said to me, “The thing I love about these guys is that they’re punks who just happen to play psychedelic music.” This joyously astute statement gets at something important about psychedelia: though the word often conjures lovey-dovey visions of the pastoral and the perfumed, […]
Posted inMusic
Demons of drip on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist Angel Onofre.
Posted inCity Life
Chicago at the turn of the century through the eyes of Rudolph F. Michaelis
From 1900 to 1905, his photographs captured slices of everyday life.