Four Star Mushrooms is selling its spent substrate to gardeners and other subversives.
Tag: Vol. 50 No. 18
Issue of May. 27 – Jun. 9, 2021
Posted inCity Life
From the gallery to the Alley
Upcoming events and recommendations for the weekend and beyond
Posted inFilm
Panic revives the young adult adaptation
The new series takes a familiar formula to unexpected places.
Posted inNews & Politics
Weiss Memorial Hospital wants to sell a parking lot. Activists say that’s a bad sign.
Uptown residents say plans to sell the lot hint that the operator of Weiss Memorial, which houses an important center for transgender care, could shutter the hospital.
Posted inMusic
The monumental new Anthony Braxton collection 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 does figure eights in full color
My mother always told me, “When you get older, you’ll begin to see the world in shades of gray.” Generally speaking, she was right (as usual), but I often find that idiom falling short of my personal experience. Listening to the prismatic 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017, I finally understood why: I’d much rather see the […]
Posted inMusic
DJ Antonio Cesar keeps finding money to evolve house music
Chicago producer and DJ Antonio Cesar has used tens of thousands of dollars in grants to travel the world, exporting the city’s sounds and importing new influences.
Posted inArts & Culture
DePaul’s Theatre School reimagines its MFA acting program
DePaul’s Theatre School retools the MFA acting program to be less expensive and more relevant; plus news from Collaboraction and Playmakers Laboratory
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Preserving the status quo
A modest proposal to turn Chicago into more of a boss-o-cracy than it already is
Posted inMusic
On Interior Terror, Chicago industrial duo Hide find everyday horrors in the corporeal and immaterial
The term “minimalism” often conjures up white walls and bright lights—a defiant barrenness in a world steeped in chaos—but Chicago-based industrial duo Hide take their stark sounds to a far darker and more malevolent space. On the new Interior Terror, multi-instrumentalist Seth Sher (Coughs, Ga’an) and singer and visual artist Heather Gabel don’t attempt anything […]
Posted inMusic
Ron Haydock was a Renaissance man of trash culture
In his tragically short life, Ron Haydock careened through rockabilly, monster magazines, pulp novels, and exploitation films.
Posted inMusic
Dark synth artist Perturbator explores destruction on Lustful Sacraments
French multi-instrumentalist James Kent, who makes music as Perturbator, has a lifelong history with synthesizers—his parents were in a band that used them—and he negotiates the possibilities of his instruments as fluently as a native tongue. Though Kent has a background as a black-metal guitarist, he prefers to work alone, and as he told Tunecore […]
Posted inNews & Politics
PPP aid flooded fast food outlets facing labor complaints
One McDonald’s chain in Chicago received half a million dollars in forgivable federal loans. Then came complaints of COVID-19 safety failures and a deadly outbreak.