A look at the site of a once-great soccer stadium by Kelsey Gee Chicago is a city of immigrants. You can see it in the Senegalese restaurants along 79th Street, the characters marking the Chinatown Citibank, the suburban transplants in Wrigleyville.… [... »
The Everypeople Workshop is prolific. Although the multimedia and performance collective was only founded in 2009, it's already released four self-produced albums; written and produced a ballet, Bronzeville Nutcracker; and put on a three-day festival i... »
I fell into a deep YouTube hole of mid-90s midwestern pop-punk songs last week. It started when I revisited my favorite Sloppy Seconds moments while I was writing a preview for the band's upcoming show at Reggie's.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the com... »
Chicagoans recommend the Working Bikes Cooperative, YA novel The White Darkness, and Nightwood restaurant by Joey Jachowski Brian Morgan, artist represented by Jackson Junge Gallery, with work at the Winter Bike Art Show closing March 9 at Gala Gallery... »
It's troubled teen week at the European Union Festival Film Festival, whose offerings include Putin's Kiss, a Danish documentary about the rabid pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi; Innocence, a Czech suspense flick about a 14-year-old who accuses her doctor... »
"Hacktivist" Jeremy Hammond, who "boasted he stole personal information from hundreds of thousands of people," was just arrested in Chicago, the Sun-Times reported Tuesday. The arrest followed an FBI raid on his Bridgeport home Hammond was profiled in ... »
When I was living in New York a few years back, I did what was normal for me at the time: I went to Barnes & Noble to read magazines. I recall seeing a title I'd never seen before, Stop Smiling, and noticing a flashy cover with a photo of Jack Nicholso... »
On his remarkable debut album as a composer, 2009's Enter Houses Of (Tzadik), Mario Diaz de Leon located the intersection of contemporary classical music and electronics and then pushed from there into the realm of noise, finding an artful balance betw... »
Architect and philosopher Stanley Tigerman, who says he's never been at home anywhere nor with anything, will speak at 6:00 tonight at the Graham Foundation in the town that has no qualms about claiming him. Famous for outrageous designs and a mouth to... »
A friend of mine happened across a scenic photo of the Aetnaville Bridge while doing research for a Web project. The disused bridge stretches across the Ohio River, connecting Bridgeport, Ohio, and Wheeling Island in Wheeling, West Virginia.… [ Read mo... »
In his column this week, headlined "Saul Alinsky, poster child," Michael Miner writes about how the right just loves to link Barack Obama to community organizer Saul Alinsky. The link in particular here is Obama's participation in a panel discussion at... »
Winter sports options at Northerly Island in the Near South Side by Julia Thiel Northerly Island is well known for its summer concerts, but less so for its winter attractions: from December to February, you can go cross-country skiing or snowshoeing on... »
If I know Chicagoans—and I've been studying the breed for years—I figure most probably just shook their heads in dismay at the new ward map, adopted last week by the City Council. Like—what the hell can we do? But Andrew Bayley—a graduate student of ar... »
After a tenure of only six months, Timothy Douglas is calling it quits. His resignation as artistic director of Remy Bumppo Theatre takes effect January 31.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] »
Michael W. Phillips is going all out for Friday night’s South Side Projections event, hosted by Pilsen’s Roxaboxen Exhibitions. The night kicks off at 7:00 PM with a screening of Jack Smith’s avant-garde masterpiece Flaming Creatures (1963), followed b... »
