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Seven Days in Chicago
North Lawndale set to get free wireless + businessman Brian McClure spreads his flag
(2008-07-01)
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Common Sense for Chicago
Nothing but the simple facts and plain truths
Tending after your dog, suffering the CTA, watching for bikers and more
(2008-07-01)
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Hancock Towers
Celebrating Peter Berg's latest genre mashup
Anticipation runs high for further blackening of Batman's soul in "The Dark Knight," but the Fourth of July weekend belongs to "Hancock," a handsomely haywire comic-tragic concoction that flies high, sideways, off course and straight up in the air
(2008-07-01)
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Twenty-First-Century Band
Icy Demons chill with some “Miami Ice”
A psycho funk-jazz dance party warped together with a collection of keyboards, guitars, bass, energetic drums and elusive, sharply goofy vocals (the lyric “You better buy a breath mint with that last dime” makes an appearance), Icy Demons perplexes
(2008-07-01)
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Calling for Culinary Common Sense
Biting into the rock-star chefs
Chefs are the new rock stars, and as such, some of them have been honoring that heritage by acting like first-class liquored-up self-indulgent retards. I figured since this is the common-sense issue, I’d try and bring a little balance to all things silly and culinary
(2008-07-01)
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Rock 'n' Roll Fun
Columbia grad Stephanie Kuehnert debut strikes a power chord
“I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone,” the debut novel from local author Stephanie Kuehnert, is a punk-rock novel of heavy awareness. Everyone wants to be a rock star. Kuehnert’s protagonist and narrator, Emily Black, is no different
(2008-07-01)
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Eye Exam
Manmade Divinity
“Idol Anxiety,” a small, engaging show at the Smart Museum of Art, investigates the age-old tension between material image and divine form. The artworks—culled from Greek, Christian, Judaic and ancient Near Eastern sources—show a range of strategies that humans have employed for getting at divinity: painted icons, altarpieces, worshipper figurines all present different pathways for contemplating god in visual form
(2008-07-01)
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By Design
A Posh Preview
On an average evening, as dusk settles in across the city, the Chicago History Museum closes its doors to field-trip groups, history buffs and curious tourists, and lies dormant for the night before welcoming them all back again in the morning. But on a recent Tuesday night the museum was the most bustling place in Lincoln Park, brightly lit and swarming with valets as rows of well-dressed folk made their way into the building
(2008-07-01)
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Spin Control
Picnic Party
As summer finally gets underway in the Windy City, Chicagoans will no doubt be gearing up for the full schedule of free events at Millennium Park. The unique structure in the heart of downtown Chicago is home to a vast array of performances, from the Grant Park Music Fest to the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. But one night that is quickly gathering momentum is the newly founded Audio Picnic
(2008-07-01)
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