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Food & Drink, Bar Review Nov 2, 2017
Recommended
Leviathan is a bar that’s easy to love, tentacles and all

The Dana Hotel’s sea monster-inspired bar brings the ocean to downtown Chicago.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Bar Review, Leviathan, Dana Hotel, bar review, Portsmith, Apogee, the Sixth, Berkshire Room, Benjamin Schiller, Recommended

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Nov 1, 2017
Recommended
Portsmith is a safe harbor for quality seafood

The Fifty/50 Group brings an ocean-focused menu to the Dana Hotel.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Portsmith, Fifty/50, Dana Hotel, Leviathan, Nate Henssler, Homestead on the Roof, Benjamin Schiller, The Sixth, Berkshire Room, Chris Teixeira, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2015
Video
The year's best movie (so far), plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, David Cronenberg, Maps to the Stars, White God, European Union Film Festival, Asian American Showcase, Man From Reno, Dave Boyle, Surrogate Valentine, Daylight Savings, Ben Sachs, Charlie Minn, Es El Chapo?, Human Capital, Law & Order, Frederick Wiseman, Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing the Road Is All, Chicago: City on the Make, The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders, Sebastiao Salgados, Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren, Gustav Klimt, Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz, Dan Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden, Kartemquin Films, Almost There, Daniel Sousa, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 11, 2015
Let the Lollapalooza lineup predictions begin!

Plus: A shakeup for Lord Mantis births another nasty metal band, and newcomers Buckingham Palace SVU play a free show.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Lollapalooza, ASAP Rocky, Drake, Florence and the Machine, Andrew Barber, System of a Down, Mick Jenkins, Twin Peaks, Lord Mantis, Bill Bumgardner, Andrew Markuszewski, Will Lindsay, Dylan O'Toole, Scott Shellhamer, American Heritage, Charlie Fell, Ken Sorceron, Abigail Williams, Missing, Jef Whitehead, Leviathan, Sanford Parker, Corrections House, Fade Kainer, Batillus, Jeff Wilson, Wolvhammer, Buckingham Palace SVU, Humboldt Park, Archie's, Nones, DJ Todd Novak, HoZac, Arman Mabry, Rabid Rabbit, Casey Harris, Sharing Mass Graves, ake Acosta, Famous Laughs, Kevin Spain, Dead Letter

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2015
Video
The Lawrence of Arabia of stoner comedies—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon, Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagnitsev, Selma, Martin Luther King, Almost There, Kartemquin Films, Peter Anton, Daniel Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Remote Area Medical, Predestination, Marcel Carne, Le Jour se Leve, Jacques Doillon, The Crying Woman, Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, A Report on the Party and the Guests, A Woman Is a Woman, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, I Vitteloni, Ruthless People, Zucker Abrahams Zucker, Jacques Becker, Le Trou, Black Narcissus, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Fish Called Wanda, The Big Lebowski, Vessel, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2014
Video
Black metal supergroup Twilight debut a new track from their upcoming final album

Largely-local American black metal supergroup Twilight debut a new track from their upcoming final record.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music, Twilight, black metal, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Jef Whitehead, Leviathan, Sanford Parker, Stavros Giannopoulos, Atlas Moth, Century Media Records, Aaron Turner, Blake Judd, Scott Conner, Xasthur, American black metal, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2013
My favorite films of 2013

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Leviathan, Computer Chess, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, The Lords of Salem, Rob Zombie, Viola, Matías Piñeiro, The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola, I Used to Be Darker, Matt Porterfield, Pavilion, Tim Sutton, Alexander Payne, Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan, Beyond the Hills, Christian Mungiu, Drug War, Johnnie To, Her, Spike Jonze, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, The World's End, Edgar Wright, Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Ape, Joel Potrykus, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panah, Kambuzia Partovi, The Battle of Tabato, João Viana, Concrete Parlay, Fern Silva, Solar Sight III, Lawrence Jordan, By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesque Foraging, David Gatten, Dusty Stacks of Mom, Jodie Mack, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser

Film, Movie Review Sep 4, 2013
At the 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, every picture tells a story

From multilayered mysteries to a Warholian take on Grand Theft Auto IV, narrative cinema and the avant-garde overlap.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Sergei Eisenstein, Encounters I May or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin, Buffalo Death Mask, Andy Warhol, Grand Theft Auto IV, JB Mabe, To the Change Assigned, Lewis Klahr, Kiss the Rain, David Fincher, Matt Wolf, I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, I Am Micro, Seven, Vincent Grenier, Watercolor (Fall Creek), Jake Barningham, Pták básně I a II, Phil Solomon, Empire, Gus Van Sant, Aula Magna, Manuel Barenboim, Ant Hill, Gerry, Andres Denegri, Elephant, Last Days, Joseph Cornell, George Kuchar, Onion City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Morning of Saint Anthony's Day, As the Flames Rose, João Pedro Rodrigues, Columbia College, Ferguson Theater, O Fantasma, Two Drifters, To Die Like a Man, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Saint Anthony's Day, Jean Cocteau, The Human Voice, Ben Rivers, Phantoms of a Libertine, Mike Leigh, Terence Davies, Slow Action, Two Years at Sea, Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, Sabine Gruffat, I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Stephen Graves, A Body Without Organs, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, I Am Micro, Kamal Swaroop, Double Play, Richard Linklater, James Benning

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 9, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Sons of the Silent Age do Bowie at a Pablove benefit

Plus: Metal veterans launch new bands Hate Meditation and Corrections House
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, David Bowie, Sons of the Silent Age, Heroes, Sons of the Silent Age, Chris Connelly, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Matt Walker, Filter, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Shirley Manson, Pablove Foundation, Metro, Waco Brothers, T. Rex, Death on the Autobahn, Kill Hannah, Greg Corner, Kraftwerk, Blake Judd, Hate Meditation, Nachtmystium, Job Bos, Dark Fortress, Jef Whitehead, Leviathan, Twilight, Vitandus, Indie Recordings, black metal, Corrections House, Scott Kelly, Neurosis, Mike IX Wiliams, Eyehategod, Bruce Lamont, Yakuz, Bloodiest, Sanford Parker, Minsk, Nachtmystium

Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2012
My favorite films of 2012

Top Ten Films of 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Film, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Haywire, Steven Soderbergh, Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, The Comedy, Rick Alverson, Goodbye First Love, Mia Hanson-Love, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Deep Blue Sea, Terrence Davies, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Bernie, Richard Linklater, Killer Joe, William Friedkin, Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, Tchoupitoulas, Bill Ross, Turner Ross, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Alps, Yorgos Lanthimos, Let the Bullets Fly, Wen Jiang, Wanderlust, David Wain, Keyhole, Guy Maddin, Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, The Innkeepers, Ti West, In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo, 2012), 21 Jump Street, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Beyond the Hills, Christian Mungiu, Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont, Aita, José María de Orbe, Memories of a Morning, Jose Luis Guerin, Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

Blogs, Bleader Oct 26, 2012
Video
12 O'Clock Track: Xasthur, "The Prison of Mirrors"

Xasthur's "The Prison of Mirrors" is a huge, scary black-metal epic
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Xasthur, The Prison of Mirrors, Malefic, black metal, video, Leviathan, Striborg, One Man Metal, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2012
CIFF notes: Experience Leviathan

Leviathan is an unparalleled experience
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, Chicago International Film Festival

Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: CIFF standouts

Top 5 CIFF Films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Night Across the Street, Raul Ruiz, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Sweetgrass, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, Tokyo!, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2012
Video
Meet Leviathan, the local visual-design group behind Amon Tobin's stage show

An introduction to the Chicago visual production studio that helped create the innovative and awe-inspiring stage setup for renowned DJ and producer Amon Tobin
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music, Visual Art, Amon Tobin, Leviathan, ISAM, Drake, Expo Chicago, Wooden Toy, Journeyman, Vello Virkhaus, V Squared Labs, Chad Hutson, Matt Daly, Redmoon Theater, Xbox Kinect, Ninja Tune, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 21, 2012
Jef Whitehead, aka Leviathan, aka Wrest, sentenced to two years probation

The trial of black-metal musician Jef Whitehead finally comes to a close
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Crime, Music, Jef Whitehead, Leviathan, True Traitor True Whore, Pitchfork, Brandon Stosuy, Joel A. Brodsky

Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2011
Jef Whitehead (sort of) speaks about his assault arrest

"I'm playing O.J. and paying for my freedom . . . "
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Jef Whitehead, assault, arrest, Leviathan, Twilight, Lurker of Chalice, Chicago, metal, Pitchfork, Brandon Stosuy, Stereogum

Music, Music Column Jun 17, 2010
A Weirder Shade of Black

Nachtmystium advances black metal by breaking all its rules.
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music Column, Black metal, Leviathan, Wolves in the Throne Room, Nachtmystium, Blake Judd, Azentrius, anti-Semitism, Zionist, Metalreviews.com, Unholy Terrorist Cult, Reign of the Malicious, Vinland Winds, Unholy Records, Zadok Day, Scion Rock Fest, Bruce Lamont, Yakuza, Bruce Finkelman, Robert Lowe, Lichens, Merrick Jarmulowicz, white powder not white power, Instinct: Decay, Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. I, Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II, Will Lindsay, Indian, Jeff Wilson, Andrew Markuszewski, Charlie Fell, Lord Mantis, Pat Clancy, Corpse Vomit, Empty Bottle

Music, Music Sidebar Oct 20, 2005
Black Metal Whimsy

Leviathan's Wrest goes exploring.
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Music, Leviathan, Wrest

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The Dana Hotel’s sea monster-inspired bar brings the ocean to downtown Chicago.

The Fifty/50 Group brings an ocean-focused menu to the Dana Hotel.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Plus: A shakeup for Lord Mantis births another nasty metal band, and newcomers Buckingham Palace SVU play a free show.

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15

Largely-local American black metal supergroup Twilight debut a new track from their upcoming final record.

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013

From multilayered mysteries to a Warholian take on Grand Theft Auto IV, narrative cinema and the avant-garde overlap.

Plus: Metal veterans launch new bands Hate Meditation and Corrections House

Top Ten Films of 2012

Xasthur's "The Prison of Mirrors" is a huge, scary black-metal epic

Leviathan is an unparalleled experience

Top 5 CIFF Films

An introduction to the Chicago visual production studio that helped create the innovative and awe-inspiring stage setup for renowned DJ and producer Amon Tobin

The trial of black-metal musician Jef Whitehead finally comes to a close

"I'm playing O.J. and paying for my freedom . . . "

Nachtmystium advances black metal by breaking all its rules.

Leviathan's Wrest goes exploring.

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