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Tag: Vol. 50 No. 16
Issue of Apr. 29 – May. 12, 2021
Posted inFilm
Indie film on ice
Jer Sklar’s feature Tom of Your Life makes its local premiere in a one-week run at the newly reopened Music Box.
Posted inCity Life
State Street, that great street?
What would it take to bring the grandeur back to the Loop?
Posted inNews & Politics
COVID’s invisible victims
The narrative that young and previously healthy Americans are the “new” pandemic patients is an erasure of Latino victims.
Posted inArts & Culture
Opera on your phone; CSO (lite), live and in person
While Chicago opera plays on your phone, Symphony Center announces May opening.
Posted inArts & Culture
Carlo Lorenzo García creates a solo tribute in A Portrait of My Mother
The onetime Chicago theatermaker premieres his digital show for Mother’s Day; plus major awards for playwrights and designers and a tribute to Russ Tutterow
Posted inColumns & Opinion
My husband gets off to financial domination
He’s controlling in bed and submissive online.
Posted inMusic
A local R&B favorite by the Fabulous Turks gets resurrected after half a century
Chicago singer-songwriter RJ Griffith has released a cover of his uncle’s old R&B band the Fabulous Turks.
Posted inMusic
Chicago math-pop masters Paper Mice return with 1-800-MONDAYS
It’s been almost eight years since we’ve heard new music from local weirdos Paper Mice, but their brand-new 1-800-MONDAYS (Three One G) was worth the wait—it’s easily their best record yet. This time around, the trio blur the line between pop and herky-jerky math rock more thoroughly than ever before, stepping up the polyrhythms and […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
We’re number one!
With two aldermen indicted on just one day, Chicago proves it’s second to none when it comes to corruption.
Posted inArts & Culture
Remembering Michael Martin
From Chicago to New Orleans, the performer, playwright, director, producer, and raconteur created deep connections.
Posted inArts & Culture
A transformative year
Trans Latina Frances D’allesio talks survival, mental health, and food.
Posted inMusic
Veteran Chicago rockers Great Deceivers bid adieu with a somber but vital self-titled album
It’s difficult to describe the vastness of Chicago indie rock and punk without mentioning Great Deceivers, partly because of the four-piece’s pedigree. Guitarist Russell Harrison and bassist-vocalist Ben Rudolph play in unforgivingly ferocious hardcore unit C.H.E.W., while drummer Seth Engel makes delightfully solemn indie rock as Options and has been part of far too many […]
Posted inMusic
Ganser move their creativity online for the pandemic
Chicago postpunk band Ganser made their new remix EP with help from social-media connections built during lockdown.
Posted inMusic
This might be the last Bandcamp Friday
Not to alarm anyone, but no further Bandcamp Fridays have been announced—so don’t put off that music-buying binge another month.