Giuseppe Capotondi’s latest looks at the dark inauthenticity of the art world.
Tag: Vol. 49 No. 43
Issue of Sep. 3 – 16, 2020
Posted inFilm
The Queens takes you behind the scenes of a Chicago drag pageant
The documentary is at its best when focusing on the most marginalized in the drag community.
Posted inReader partners
A chance to ‘save the last dance’
SocialWorks will keep the class of 2020 from missing out
Posted inMusic
Norwegian shapeshifters Ulver remain as literary, elusive, and dark as ever on Flowers of Evil
Norway’s Ulver debuted in 1993 as a howling black-metal outfit, but since then front man and composer Kristoffer Rygg has steered his ship into such different waters you can hardly say it’s going a-Viking anymore. (If you want to hear Ulver at their heaviest since their early days, I’d recommend their collaborations with Sunn O))), […]
Posted inArts & Culture
An encyclopedia of women’s empowerment
Local photographer Amy Boyle’s new project, 52 Phenomenal Women, elevates the voices of women and reminds us there’s power in sharing our stories.
Posted inMusic
Spektral Quartet’s Experiments in Living upends the timeline to stake out a fresh vantage point
The through line of Spektral Quartet’s first studio release in four years, Experiments in Living, is that there is no through line—at least on the surface. The double album covers 150 years of history, from Brahms to living lions such as George Lewis, but rather than foist a chronological or thematic flow onto the recording, […]
Posted inMusic
Andrew Kitchen’s boogie strikes back
Soul Train veteran and Attack of the Boogie host Andrew Kitchen celebrates the reissue of his dance show’s 1984 theme song.
Posted inMusic
The pandemic is still with us, so Bandcamp day is too
The Reader recommends 34 recent releases for this month’s Bandcamp day.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Back to college in a pandemic
Faculty and staff unions question safety, while the future of higher ed gets murky.
Posted inMusic
Roll up for the percolator on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by singer, DJ, and producer Green Velvet, aka Cajmere.
Posted inFilm
Residents in southeast Chicago aren’t giving up
“There’s a spirit in my neighborhood that is as tough as the steel we produced.”
Posted inMusic
Zeena Parkins and Jeff Kolar merge electronic sounds with nature on Scale
The new Scale is billed to composer and improvising harpist Zeena Parkins and Chicago sound artist and radio producer Jeff Kolar, but its story involves a larger group of collaborators. In 2017, University of Illinois professor Jennifer Monson (who’s also a choreographer and dancer) commissioned Parkins and Kolar to work with her, dancer Mauriah Kraker, […]
Posted inCity Life
Ode to a Chicago Public School
The lessons learned in CPS go beyond what’s taught in the classroom.