Vol. 50 No. 21 Archives - Page 3 of 4

The Great Tribune, still tormenting lefties after all these years

Columns & Opinion

Oh, what to do?

by Ben Joravsky July 7, 2021August 18, 2021

One leftie’s complicated relationship with the Chicago Tribune

Columns & Opinion

Your son might be someone’s rubber gimp

by Dan Savage July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Questions from “Sack Lunch,” an online hangout exclusively for Magnum subscribers to the Savage Lovecast

Arts & Culture

Tap Secret! offers “cotton candy” escapism and a welcome return to live performance

by Melissa Renee Perry July 6, 2021May 19, 2022

Chicago Tap Theatre and JC Brooks team up for a new show with a 90s beat.

Tasya Hardono stocks close to 600 different items on the shelves at Waroeng in Schaumburg.

Food & Drink

Waroeng is the midwest’s first and only Indonesian grocery

by Mike Sula July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Minahasa partners John Avila and Tasya Hardono have opened your one-stop shop for comestibles from Borneo, Bali, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Java, and beyond.

Music

Rock critic Jessica Hopper publishes an expanded edition of her first book

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Rock critic Jessica Hopper publishes a hugely expanded edition of her first book, Bryan Away (aka Elliot Korte) drops an album of lush folk-pop, and more.

Food & Drink

Pizza for Everyone!

by Mike Sula July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Charity pop-up Crust Fund Pizza drops its retro-style community cookbook that embraces the egalitarian pliability of pizza.

Music

Angel Bat Dawid finds creative kinship in Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty

by Hannah Edgar July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Brotherhood, meet sisterhood. Those who know clarinetist, composer, and self-described “sonic archaeologist” Angel Bat Dawid from the incisive October release LIVE likely associate her with her stalwart seven-piece band, Tha Brotherhood, which backs her on that album. It was recorded during a fraught, frustrating 2019 European tour, but when the pandemic shuttered venues and stilled […]

Music

Evanston’s Jason Narducy wields a lifetime of rock power on Split Single’s new Amplificado

by Leor Galil July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Split Single front man Jason Narducy can mold a bit of guitar distortion and a sweet melody into a lifeline. On “Bitten by the Sound,” a standout on Split Single’s new third album, Amplificado (Inside Outside), Narducy’s sheer but ironclad guitar embodies the white-hot energy of rock, which has mystified him since childhood. As a […]