Reel Chicago Rescues Long-Forgotten Films
REAL TO REEL: With the release of a new DVD series, a school of gritty Chicago filmmaking flickers back to life
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Black Composer Florence Price, Rediscovered Again
The New Black Music Repertory Ensemble of Columbia College plays the work of Florence Price, the first black woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
Adam Levin’s ‘Hot Pink’ Book Review
Chicagoan Adam Levin’s new book is a different type of fiction from his debut novel, 2010’s The Instructions, which clocked in at 1,030 pages and took a decade to write. A collection of ten short stories (some previously published in the likes of Tin House and McSweeney’s), Hot Pink’s longest entry tops out at 38 … Read more
Five Best Things to Do in March
THE SHORTLIST: A few musts from this month’s culture calendar
For Fans of Street Photography, All the Charles Cushman You Could Wish For
For years, the Chicago businessman traveled the city and country documenting America (and some of its attractive women) on impossibly vivid Kodachrome. Now Oxford University Press has a celebration of his vast work.
Stern Pinball, Steven Kordek, and Chicago's Pinball Legacy
This Week in Pinball: A journalistic and photographic tour of Stern Pinball, last bastion of Chicago’s pinball legacy; RIP Steve Kordek, Chicago pinball legend; and more
Des Plaines High School Regulates Footloose Dancing
Maine West to crack down on inappropriate dancing, from grinding to “bending over.” They’ll track dirty dancing with wristbands, immortal signal of permission to do things.
Great Chicago Street Photographers of Past and Present
This Week in Awesome Photography: Vivian Maier, Charles Cushman, the Blue Star Hotel, public housing, “My Camera and I In the Loop,” and more
Your Plans for This Week
On your agenda: Steppenwolf premieres a high-school survival saga … A MacArthur genius bebops with CJE … Genghis Khan invades the Field … plus, what composer Kyle Vegter is doing this weekend
New to Me: Rotary Connection
A look back at Chess Records’ house psychedelic band, led by a pre-stardom Minnie Riperton and featuring Phil Upchurch, Mitch Aliotta, and John Jeremiah, among many others.