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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 1, 2019
It's open-arse season, motherfuckers

Get your medlars before they rot.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, medlars, Green City Market, Evanston Farmers' Market, fruit, Seedling Fruit, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Saki, Thomas Middleton, Tarquin, rotten fruit

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 8, 2016
After more than 20 years as a countercultural hub, 6Odum heads for the wrecking ball

Plus: Carrot Top Distribution takes Saki with it as it shuts down, and rockabilly oddball Slink Moss reunites the Flying Aces on a return visit to Chicago.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, 6Odum, Semaphore, Oobleck, Pieholden Suite Sound, Matt DeWine, Joshua Dumas, demolition, Mending, Kate Adams, At Odum’s End, Saki, CTD, Carrot Top Distribution, Carrot Top Records, Patrick Monaghan, closing, going out of business, Slink Moss, Flying Aces, Slink Moss & the Flying Aces, John Greenfield, Phyllis’ Musical Inn, Hudson, New York, rockabilly, Clem Jaskot

Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 11, 2016
Chicago label Deep Space Objects compiles a constellation of diverse electronic tracks

Plus: Argot releases the serenely funky 90s house of Shifty Science, Lord Mantis drummer Bill Bumgardner dies at 35, and more.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Beta Orionis, Deep Space Objects, Del Dot, Saki, Anuj Girdhar, Foodman, Jana Rush, electronic music, footwork, juke, ghetto house, OB, Jon Monteverde, Lily, Ultrademon, Jeremiah Fisher, Steve Mizek, Argot, Shifty Science, John Kardaras, Chris Ike, Lab Work 91-96, Versions for Modern Dancerfloors, house music, Savile, Straight to Hell, clothes, jackets, East Room, Ravagers, Dirty Fences, Mama, White Mystery, Lord Mantis, Bill Bumgardner, obituary, death, suicide, Indian, Burning Churches, Flat Iron, Empty Bottle, Green Street Smoked Meats, Will Lindsay, Ken Sorceron

Music, Music Feature Apr 13, 2016
Video
Record Store Day 2016: Sales, giveaways, in-store performances, and more

This year’s special releases leave a lot to be desired, but the full slate of in-stores should make shop hopping worth it anyway.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Record Store Day, Shaggs, Green River, Sun Ra, Cannots, Charles Rumback, Ryley Walker, Kevin Gates, Stony Island, 606 Records, Pinwheel Records, Audio Archaeology, Beverly Records, Bric-a-Brac Records, Bucket o' Blood Books and Records, Dave's Records, Dusty Groove, FeelTrip, Reckless, Saki, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Shuga Records, Val's Halla Records, Hyde Park Records, The Music Experience, Fletcher's 1 Stop Records, Gramaphone Records, Groovin' High, Kstarke Records, Logan Hardware, Numero Group, Old School Records, Permanent Records, Raffe's Record Riot, Record Breakers, Shake Rattle & Read, Vintage Vinyl, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 17, 2015
Video
Meat Wave celebrate the release of their second full-length with a bunch of shows all over town

The band's brand-new Delusion Moon hits shelves tomorrow.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, Meat Wave, Delusion Moon, record release, Bric-a-Brac, Saki, Emporium, in-store, keg, keg tapping, Pipeworks, Riot Fest, SideOneDummy, punk, postpunk, Chris Sutter, Joe Gac, Ryan Wizniak, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2015
Video
Mac Blackout is the local rocker putting faces on tree stumps

If you've spotted tree stumps topped with the face of a strange, smiling creature you've seen the work of visual artist and local rock veteran Mac Blackout.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Arts, Music, Visual Art, street art, graffiti, Mac Blackout, Mac Blackout Band, City Lights, Cassette Store Day, Saki, Mickey, Functional Blackouts, Video

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Exploitation, Cult, and Direct-to-Video Programmer

Katie Rife
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Everything Is Terrible!, Katie Rife, B Movies, Logan Theatre, Emporium Arcade Bar, video, Logan Square International Film Series, Saki, Comfort Station, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 4/20: Adult Easter Egg Hunt, American Me, and Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, April 20
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Easter, Adult Easter Egg Hunt, Longman & Eagle, Logan Square, Lula Cafe, Wolfbait & B-Girls, Saki, Striding Lion Performance Group, American Me, Annie Arnoult Bessera, Eli Finkel, Links Hall, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jazz Showcase, Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio

Music, Music Feature Apr 16, 2014
How do record stores get such great used vinyl?

When record stores aren't buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Permanent Records, Dave McCune, record stores, Record Store Day, Chicagoland Record Collectors Show, Hillside, record collecting, rare vinyl, used vinyl, used records, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Saki, Logan Hardware, Reckless Records, LPs, seven-inches, Lance Barresi, J&M Tap, dive bars, Luca Cimarusti, Chicago Reader, Basic Cable, bands, Zipcar, Logan Square, Brian Eno, driving, Silver Apples, John Govi, CHIRP Record Fair, Thrill Jockey, Jonathan Willinger, record dealers, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Naperville Sun, Illinois Entertainer, Crossroads, private-press records, Muddy Waters, Chess Records, Shangri-Las, Chicago soul, Brothers of the Ghetto, Rolling Stones, bootlegs, Trade Mark of Quality, genres, Jawbreaker, Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Devo, Fleetwood Mac, Hawkwind, Bruce Springsteen, compilations, Joyride Records

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2014
"Double Dip," "To Perform, To Conceal," and the rest of your weekend in visual arts

Your guide to visual arts in the city this weekend
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Visual Art, #DrunkDictators, Monique Meloche Gallery, Pedro Vélez, "The Gift of Broken Tracking Devices: Thinking With Our Hands", Experimental Sound Studio, Judith A. Kasen, Michiko Itatani, MT Coast, Double Dip, Saki, Liz Born, Gabe Hoare, Paul-David Young, Crowded House Gallery, Disparate Idioms and Desires, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, David Lozano, Chicago Artists Interpret Shakespeare, Beverly Arts Center, William Shakespeare

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2014
"Ten x Ten 2013," "Ghost Town," and the rest of your weekend in visual arts

Your guide to visual arts in the city this weekend
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Visual Art, Release Show, Chicago Artists' Coalition, HATCH Project, Ten x Ten 2013, Saki, Are We There Yet?, Arc Gallery, Ann O'Brien, Hatched, Nancy Fritz, Ghost Town, Peanut Gallery, Sean Hernandez, State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, Field Museum

Blogs, Bleader Oct 27, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 10/27: Chicago Artists Month, CHIRP Radio's Record Crawl, and Harvest Weekend

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, October 27
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Artists Month, East Garfield Park, Edra Soto, The Franklin, D.J. Mr. Voice, Dr. J's, Andrea Jablonski, Chicago Center for Green Technology, CHIRP Radio's Record Crawl, Laurie's Planet of Sound (4639 N. Lincoln), Permanent, Reckless, Saki, Logan Hardware, Harvest Weekend, Bang Bang Pie, "Harvest Dinner"

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2013
Video
Soundcheck: Geronimo! does Saki too

As a part of the Reader's Soundcheck series, we interviewed local trio Geronimo! prior to their in-store set at Saki in Logan Square.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Soundcheck, Music, Soundcheck, Geronimo!, Saki, video, grunge, Sub Pop, Exanimate, Epitonic, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2013
Video
Soundcheck: Meat Wave does Saki

Locals Meat Wave recently played an in-store at Saki in Logan Square. We brought a video camera and made them talk to us.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Soundcheck, Music, soundcheck, Meat Wave, Saki, Detachment Kit, Epitonic, Onion, postpunk, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 25, 2013
Gossip Wolf: The Evens play Logan Hardware (for old times' sake)

Plus: Kommandant's former front man lands in Stone Magnum, and Come does an in-store at Saki.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Dischord, the Evens, Amy Farina, Ian MacKaye, Logan Hardware, Jim Zespy, Fugazi, John Loder, The Odds, Nick Hernandez, Kommandant, Stone Magnum, Michigan City, Indiana, From Time . . . to Eternity, Nite Cap, Cardiac Arrest, Radiation Sickness, Come, Saki, Empty Bottle, Adam Reach, Carrot Top, Touch and Go

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 5, 2013
Gossip Wolf: The Owl makes silver apples for its Silver Apples show

Plus: The CFA's second annual media mixer and Nnamdi Ogbonnaya's schizo new pop album
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Logan Square, the Owl, Bloodiest, Basic Cable, Bitchin Bajas, Silver Apples, Wicker Park, Permanent, Logan Hardware, Saki, the Hideout, Chicago Film Archives Media Mixer, Cauleen Smith and the Eternals, Jesse McLean, Sich Mang, Alexander Stewart, Sam Prekop, WBEZ, Alison Cuddy, Bobby Conn & Monica Boubou, Peter Margasak, Pitchfork, Roctober, Dusty Groove, Bootie Noir, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Love of Everything, My Dad, Spanglish, Bobby Burg, Love of Everything, Nate Kinsella, Birthmark, Dave Reminick, Dave Davison, Maps & Atlases, Alicia Walter, Oshwa, Ice Cream (Banana Split)

Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2013
Reader's Agenda Tue 5/21: Israeli jazz, immigrant stories, and a JC Brooks listening party

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, May 21
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Gilad Hekselman, Anshe Emet Synagogue, Anchee Min, The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, Red Azalea, Harold Washington Library Center, Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Saki, Howl, Bloodshot, WXRT, Marty Lennartz

Music, Music Feature Apr 17, 2013
Record Store Day 411

The stores, in-stores, discounts, and goodies
- Tags: Music Feature, Beverly Records, Cafe Mustache, Dave's Records, Dusty Groove, Gramaphone Records, Hyde Park Records, Jazz Record Mart, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Logan Hardware, Old School Records, Comfort Station, Permanent Records, Reckless Records, Reckless Records, Reckless Records, Forest Park, Record Breakers, Saki, 2nd Hand Tunes, Val's Halla Records, Village Records, Vintage Vinyl

Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 26, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Sniffing out the Lollapalooza lineup

Plus: The Owl launches a cassette label, and Saki hosts Low and Jeff Tweedy
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Lollapalooza, Iceage, 2 Chainz, Harlem Shake, Baauer, Depeche Mode, Postal Service, Degrassi, Drake, Phoenix, Diplo, Nine Inch Nails, Chance the Rapper, Jessie Ware, Pitchfork, Halley's Commet, My Bloody Valentine, Logan Square, the Owl, Parliament Tapes, Champions of Sound, Danny Akalepse, Truth & Soul, Tyrue "Slang" Jones, Mix Tape Lounge, New York, Natasha Diggs, Southern Soul Spinners, Off the Record, Saki, Low, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker, Steve Garrington, The Invisible Way, Jeff Tweedy, Metro

Music, In Rotation Feb 25, 2013
In Rotation: CUFF artistic director Bryan Wendorf on the blackened Krautrock of Aluk Todolo

Plus: Reader associate editor Kevin Warwick on the Busy Bea Flea Mall, filmmaker Mike Gibisser on folk firebrand Barbara Dane, and more
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: In Rotation, Kevin Warwick, flea markets, thrift stores, record shopping, records, Paw Paw, Michigan, Busy Bea Flea Mall, Pissed Jeans, Sub Pop, Trouble in Mind Records, brunch, The Birthday Party, Aluk Todolo, Guardian Alien, Greg Fox, Krautrock, black metal, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wax Trax!, Saki, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, Christian Terstegge, Arvo Pärt, Barbara Dane, Nicolas Collins, Wellman Braud, Duke Ellington, NPR, Crown Liquors

Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2013
Reader's Agenda Mon 1/28: Off the Record, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, January 28, 2013
- By Janey Lee
- Tags: Do This, Arts, music critic, Saki, Department of Cultural Affairs, Off the Record, monthly series, new releases, Brokeback Brokeback & the Black Rock, Oracle Productions, Dario Fo, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Italian, activist, Giuseppe Pinelli Justin Hayford, Tracy Morgan, Barbra Streisand, housing projects, National Public Housing Museum, The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation, inner-city, public housing communities, Sam Worley, Dinah Washington, Lupe Fiasco

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2013
Reader's Agenda Mon 1/21: Freakwater, Fresh Meat's Cleave, and "Yuck!"

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, January 21, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Louisville, Freakwater, Hideout, Feels Like the Third Time, Janet Bean, Catherine Irwin, relatively coarse, Peter Margasak, The Inconvenience, Fresh Meat, Cleave, Saki, Delicious Design League, Yuck

Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Fri 12/28: Creative Control, Shlohmo, and Danny Tanner reimagined as a psychotic murderer

What's on the Agenda for Friday, December 28, 2012
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Agenda, Creative Control, Saki, Joe McAdam, Marty DeRosa, Cameron Gillette, Timmy Brochu, Cullen Crawford, Shlohmo, Bottom Lounge, Sepalcure, Abstract Science DJs, Danny Tanner, Attend the Tale of Danny Tanner: A Full House Musical, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Skokie, Chris Gorton, Katie Johnson-Smith

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Wed 12/26: Frank Rosaly, My One and Only, and Ethan D'Ercole

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, December 26, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Frank Rosaly, Peter Margasak, the Burlington, PJW, Cotton Museum, Jason Soliday, Marriott Theatre, Andrew Lupp, Billy Buck, My One and Only, Tony Adler, Fred Astaire, Ritz Brothers, Ethan D'Ercole, White Rabbit, Brendan Benson, Saki, From the Rooftops

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Fri 11/16

What's on the Agenda for Friday, November 16, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Township, Logan Square, Seattle, Earth, Angel of Darkness, Demons of Light, Leor Galil, Eagle Twin, Stembo, Hurricane Sandy, Saki, Logan Square, Junior Stopka, CJ Toledano, Northlight Theatre, Skokie, Neil Simon, The Odd Couple, Marc Grapey, Tim Kazurinsky, Tony Adler

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