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Coming soon: The lauded drug-war documentary Narco Cultura

Though it comes to Chicago with hardly any fanfare, Narco Cultura (which opens tomorrow at the City North 14 in...
Chicago Reader  |  12-05-2013  |  On Film

A sausage outlaw goes legit

Four years ago I wrote about a couple of North Shore househusbands who ran a thriving meat market out of...
Chicago Reader  |  12-05-2013  |  The Food Chain

Blackbird almost wasn't Blackbird, Tasting Table's Open Market, and more

If you haven't read it, you're the last one in Chicago . . . it being Chandra Ram's epic account...
Chicago Reader  |  12-05-2013  |  The Food Chain

The first Chicago Serbian Film Fest kicks off this Friday

Like the MOSTRA Brazilian Film Series, the Chicago Serbian Film Fest, which takes place this Friday through Sunday at the...
Chicago Reader  |  12-04-2013  |  On Film

Howe Gelb only looks forward as his career nears its third decade

Next month Fire Records is releasing Little Sand Box, a sprawling eight-CD box set collecting the solo output of Giant...
Chicago Reader  |  12-04-2013  |  Post No Bills

This week in Claire Denis: A correspondence with Melika Bass and Lori Felker about The Intruder and Bastards

Tomorrow night at 6 PM, the Gene Siskel Film Center concludes its monthlong Claire Denis retrospective with the French director's...
Chicago Reader  |  12-04-2013  |  On Film

12 O'Clock Track: Gut-punching keyboard explorations from the Italian duo Satelliti

Three decades after Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock recorded some of their most exploratory electric work in the early 70s,...
Chicago Reader  |  12-04-2013  |  Post No Bills

Mario Batali wants you to have your "holy jeez!" moment

Mario Batali may be the most celebrated Italian restaurant chef in America at the moment. He's unquestionably the most recognizable—imposingly...
Chicago Reader  |  12-04-2013  |  The Food Chain

Monsters: Loving and mourning the '85 Bears

I just finished a book I thought was pretty close to perfect. Which simply means Rich Cohen picked a subject...
Chicago Reader  |  12-03-2013  |  The Sports Page

Bull Horns Taco Bar: Redefining the taco, unfortunately

Does the taco need redefining? According to Bull Horns, the taco joint that's taken over the Andersonville space briefly occupied...
Chicago Reader  |  12-03-2013  |  The Food Chain

Lidia Bastianich: "Fifty percent of the chef's job is done if you have the right products"

In the second installment of my interviews with the three main partners of Chicago's Eataly, I talk to Lidia Bastianich,...
Chicago Reader  |  12-03-2013  |  The Food Chain

Lessons of random double features

Last Tuesday I went to Doc Films for back-to-back screenings of Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm (1930) and Olivier Assayas's Clean (2004),...
Chicago Reader  |  12-02-2013  |  On Film

Sing's Noodle House, starring ace noodle puller Liu Chang Ming

After Tony Hu, is there a more recognizable Chinatown celebrity than Liu Chang Ming? You may not know his name,...
Chicago Reader  |  12-02-2013  |  The Food Chain

Talking with the principals behind Eataly: Joe Bastianich

Sheerly in terms of size and ambition, Eataly Chicago—which opens today at 4 PM at 43 E. Ohio (no phone,...
Chicago Reader  |  12-02-2013  |  The Food Chain

More neighborhood movies, past and present

The novel premise of the documentary Antarctica: A Year on Ice, which Chicago Filmmakers will screen at its Andersonville location...
Chicago Reader  |  12-01-2013  |  On Film

Monday night at Trenchermen: Sportsman's Club pops up

I recently read an eye-opening Atlantic piece about the myriad ways retailers try to sucker you on Black Friday and...
Chicago Reader  |  12-01-2013  |  The Food Chain

Sala Bua's tao-jeaw is like a coconut Bolognese

A Thai restaurant in Chinatown? What's next?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...
Chicago Reader  |  11-29-2013  |  The Food Chain

Beer, brick-oven pizza, and rafters at Iron Horse Ale House

Iron Horse Ale House's logo is a hybrid of a locomotive and a beer tap. It's pretty manly, pretty turn-of-the-century.…...
Chicago Reader  |  11-29-2013  |  The Food Chain

Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

In Delivery Man, a remake of the French Canadian comedy Starbuck, Vince Vaughn plays a man whose copious sperm donations...
Chicago Reader  |  11-29-2013  |  On Film

This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Columbia professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (and others) about No Fear, No Die and 35 Shots of Rum

I attended the most recent double feature in the Siskel Film Center's ongoing Claire Denis retrospective with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, a...
Chicago Reader  |  11-27-2013  |  On Film

L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Regular visitors to our film section have probably noticed Old Movies to Watch Now, a feature on our film page...
Chicago Reader  |  11-27-2013  |  On Film

Find a new friend who will invite you for dinner tomorrow

Remember Meal Sharing? The locally launched social networking site that connects travelers with native hosts willing to serve them home-cooked...
Chicago Reader  |  11-27-2013  |  The Food Chain

12 O'Clock Track: American Primitive refined by Cian Nugent on "Grass Above My Head"

The Irish guitarist Cian Nugent established himself as a formidable exponent of American Primitive guitar when he was still a...
Chicago Reader  |  11-27-2013  |  Post No Bills

In holiday spirits at the Revel Room

Last month Robbie Guevara made us a Bloody Mary that involved Cheez Whiz, but what he and his colleagues are...
Chicago Reader  |  11-26-2013  |  The Food Chain

Eclectic percussionist William Winant stakes some well-deserved ground

A repertoire of serious percussion music didn't really begin to develop until the 1930s, with the emergence of folks like...
Chicago Reader  |  11-26-2013  |  Post No Bills

The recent revival of Baby the Rain Must Fall is a good excuse to rediscover Robert Mulligan

Two days ago the Northwest Chicago Film Society screened Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) at the Gene Siskel Film...
Chicago Reader  |  11-26-2013  |  On Film

Eataly: Olive oils like grains of sand

You try to reel off the items at the new Chicago branch of Eataly and you start sounding like the...
Chicago Reader  |  11-26-2013  |  The Food Chain

A closer look at one shot of A Touch of Sin

I showed up to the Music Box Theatre's late Saturday afternoon screening of A Touch of Sin a few minutes...
Chicago Reader  |  11-25-2013  |  On Film

In memoriam Jason Cevallos, Jean Banchet

Two deaths from the Chicago culinary community were announced, to general shock, over the weekend. The most shocking was the...
Chicago Reader  |  11-25-2013  |  The Food Chain

Weekly Top Five: The best of Korean New Wave

The Park Chan-wook film Oldboy is enjoying something of a resurgence of late. The gruesome thriller screened this weekend at...
Chicago Reader  |  11-24-2013  |  On Film

On Sketches of Ethiopia, Mulatu Astatke draws a map larger than his homeland

Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke returned to action recently with the release of Sketches of Ethiopia (Jazz Village), an impressive outing—cut...
Chicago Reader  |  11-22-2013  |  Post No Bills

Tomorrow, join a discussion on Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self at the Edgewater branch library

Tomorrow at 2 PM, the Edgewater branch of the Chicago Public Library (at 1210 West Elmdale) will screen selected moments...
Chicago Reader  |  11-22-2013  |  On Film

Jia Zhang-ke, Alexander Payne, Stephen Frears, and the rest of this week's screenings

Jia Zhang-ke's A Touch of Sin, which took best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival, opens Friday at Music...
Chicago Reader  |  11-22-2013  |  On Film

Breakfast chat with Ina about how restaurants work, and her only cookbook

I got a message from Ina Pinkney of Ina's saying that she wanted to invite me to breakfast, because she'd...
Chicago Reader  |  11-21-2013  |  The Food Chain

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