Posts

During their mid-2000s heyday, Providence foursome Daughters fed off their own recklessness to the point that it became an inextricable part of their identity. Excellent example: I caught them on tour in (maybe) 2007 in Covington, Kentucky, with Louisville hardcore-punk maniacs Lords during which an absolutely plowed member of one band stumbled onstage to take a piss while an absolutely plowed member of the other band cupped his hands to catch that piss....

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Toni Preckwinkle will run for reelection as Cook County Board president next year Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle will run for a third term in 2018, she announced during a pair of radio interviews. Preckwinkle has been widely considered a frontrunner to run for mayor in 2019, but she avoided a question about the mayoral race, saying, “I got this job in 2010....

11200 S. Avenue E Located near the southeast edge of Chicago, Eggers Grove is a 25-minute drive from downtown—or a more taxing but rewarding 16-mile bike ride, almost entirely on dedicated cycling trails. The Burnham Greenway, a rails-to-trails conversion that would seem like a pastoral escape from urban life if not for the crackling power lines overhead, leads into the Eggers Grove Forest Preserve, formerly known as Nike missile site C-44....

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us. Win McNamee/Getty Images Cool guy Bernie Sanders • That a contract worker was killed by a robot at a Volkswagen plant in Germany? —Ben Sachs

Why does some music feel like fuel for your body? That’s the question Esoteric Dance Project’s co-artistic director, Christopher Tucker, asked himself while getting pumped up by pop music on his morning bike ride to work—and it’s the foundation for his piece in the new program “Correlated Mediums.” The bill of three original works is built around each of three choreographer’s ideas of how music and dance intersect, and Tucker sought to explore how musical structure shapes movement....

Mike Sula The Bensonhurst These are dark days for the American delicatessen, or so goes the conventional wisdom. In truth, they’ve never been particularly good in Chicago in the first place, where even a Brendan Sodikoff “deli” can’t thrive, as the recent downsizing of Dillman’s shows. Remember Steve’s Deli in the same location? I thought not. Mike Sula Latkes. For little people. Bergstein’s NY Delicatessen, 1164 E. 55th Street, 773-891-0429, bergsteinsny....

The idea of unionizing the professional staff of Chicago Public Media, which operates NPR affiliate WBEZ, was an old one that for years never went anywhere. But last July CEO Torey Malatia resigned under fire, and the idea was reborn with urgency. In December CPM’s staff voted 40 to seven to join the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. “I wouldn’t want to speak for everybody,” Linn went on, “but I think we’re looking for someone who is a visionary, and who is inspirational....

NEIU 5500 St Louis 773-583-4050 www.neiu.edu @NEIU

Luella’s Southern Kitchen 4609 N. Lincoln

Jim Newberry Cairo Gang bandleader Emmett Kelly It’s rare that fabled Ukrainian Village watering hole Rainbo Club hosts rock shows, but when it does it’s almost a magical experience. The warm, wooden environment of the dark bar is the perfect backdrop for a spooky, intimate performance. The last show I saw at Rainbo was in 2012 when Disappears performed a benefit show there, setting up behind and on top of the bar, and turning the entire interior into some sort of interactive, psychedelic stage....

Just minutes before the Chicago Police Department released a video Tuesday of a white police officer shooting a black teenager to death, several groups of black activists marched to Cook County state’s attorney Anita Alvarez’s office on the near west side of Chicago to attend a community forum. She had waited too long to charge officer Jason Van Dyke for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, they said. It was more than a year after the October 2014 shooting and the charges came only after a judge had ordered the release of the video showing his death....

If you’re well-versed in Chicago hip-hop, then you should certainly know the name Hurt Everybody, a rare group that landed like an asteroid in 2014 and vanished just as quickly. While outsiders positioned the city’s scene as a binary, dividing Chicago rappers into drill and poetry-bred alternative hip-hop (while ignoring, say, the joyful sound of bop, Hurt Everybody showed that it is possible to craft a sound for which there’s no local precedent—combining Mulatto Beats’ spaced-out, kaleidoscopic productions, Supa Bwe’s sweet and caterwauling battle cries, and Qari’s world-building, ballistic raps, which he delivers with an unruffled, grizzled grace....

AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Bruce Rauner’s campaign has accused the Sun-Times of an ethical violation. In April 2013, Bruce Rauner called allegations that he clouted his daughter into Payton College Prep in 2008 “stuff that doesn’t matter.” Recently, Rauner was irked by a Sun-Times-NBC5 News story about a lawsuit that cast him in a bad light. The story was authored by Sun-Times Springfield bureau chief Dave McKinney, NBC5 News’s Don Moseley, and Carol Marin, who works for both the Sun-Times and NBC5 News....

Leading the minimal-electronics vanguard of the early 80s would have required quite the undertaking for Cincinnati’s John Bender had he not instead opted to totally retreat into the recesses of obscurity (read: conventional life) following the release of the three now-mythical LPs on his own Record Sluts imprint. For years he stayed well out past the fringes, not much bothering with the notoriety those records received from the niche community he helped inspire....

Q: I have two female sex partners who want to be breath-play dominated. I know the practice is dangerous, and I employ the rules of consent and communication a pro dom escort friend taught me. But is there a legal release document we could sign that protects consenting adults in the event of an accident or death? —Ruminating About Consensual Kinks “As consenting adults, we assume the risks involved in this type of kink,” said Mistress A Elena....

On March 5, Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a press release boasting that motorists in Chicago had saved millions of dollars in parking meter fees thanks to the deal he renegotiated last year with the company that owns the meters. In case you’ve tried to forget, it was December 2008 when the City Council, at the urging of former mayor Richard M. Daley, voted to lease the city’s 36,000 parking meters to Chicago Parking Meters Inc....