Vol. 49 No. 8 Archives - Chicago Reader

Life was just a party: Prince’s 1999 and Chicago house music

by Jack Riedy November 20, 2019October 24, 2022

Prince could hardly have avoided influencing Chicago house, whose earliest, most ardent fans were queer Black and Brown kids.

Film

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby create bittersweet experimental videos exploring life’s big questions

by Adam Mullins-Khatib November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

“Amazements,” a screening of recent and older works, screens at the Block Museum of Art.

Film

Marriage Story doesn’t pick sides

by Marissa De La Cerda November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Noah Baumbach’s latest film about divorce shows both parents not as enemies but as humans

Arts & Culture

Riane Konc wants to help you Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance

by Matthew Sigur November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

The choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials.

News & Politics

‘The big house and the picket fence’

by Mari Cohen November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”

Columns & Opinion

How not to be that professor

by Dan Savage November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Dan Savage reads the riot act to a professor sleeping with former students, and more.

Music

The 2020 Frequency Festival announces a lineup of world-class experimental music

by Bill Meyer November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Highlights of the 2020 Frequency Festival include a fusion of Carnatic music and jazz, a solo vocal piece for Diamond Reynolds, and programs of work by Eliane Radigue and Annea Lockwood.