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- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Oct 30, 2020
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This COVID Chicago winter doesn’t have to suck
Fire pits, winter sports, and other ideas to lift your spirits this winter
- Music, Music Feature Jul 24, 2020
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Remembering Triad Radio, where the usual was unusual
Chicago’s pioneering experiment in commercial free-form radio left the airwaves in 1977, but longtime program director Saul Smaizys is moving its archives online.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 28, 2019
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Homeroom’s Physics for Listeners series connects local trio ZRL with four disparate composers
Plus: The Plastic (Crimewave) Ono Band releases its fourth tape-only split, and Cole’s begins a months-long celebration of its tenth year.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 4, 2019
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John Cage’s treasures are hiding in plain sight
The influential experimental composer’s largest archive lives in a library at Northwestern—and it goes a lot deeper than its famous Beatles lyric sheets.
- Music, In Rotation Apr 2, 2019
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Latham Zearfoss of Chances Dances on a Solange album for the ages
Plus: artist Jen Delos Reyes on the messages in her automated Favorites Mix, Reader music listings coordinator Salem Collo-Julin on the best memorial to Moo & Oink, and more
- Music, In Rotation Sep 20, 2017
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Bassist Matt Lux on his favorite pianist of his generation
Plus: Jazz guitarist Tim Stine on “classic rock” from Helmet, Reader critic Peter Margasak on a reissued Yoko Ono masterpiece, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2016
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A thousand-plus more people shot this year than through this time last year, and other Chicago news
Also, Yoko Ono's new permanent art installation in Jackson Park's newly restored Wooded Island is unveiled.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 21, 2016
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Avant-gardist Charlotte Moorman finally gets the recognition she's due
The performance artist, festival curator, and "topless cellist" is the subject of a new Block Museum retrospective.
- Music, Pitchfork Jul 15, 2015
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A helpful chart of the Pitchfork Music Festival lineup through the years
Tracking the waxing and waning of the various genres that supplement the festival's foundation of indie rock.
- Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2014
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A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese's debut to Lee Daniels's achievement award
We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 1, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: Metal's most prolific bassist exposed
Plus: A HoZac reissue of David "Have a Marijuana" Peel's King of Punk, and more
- Film, Movie Review Jul 10, 2013
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The Look of Love and the flaunting of flesh
Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom team up for a biopic of sex impresario Paul Raymond.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2012
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Video Drone: Beatles Stories
An anecdotal new documentary lets you meet the Beatles, over and over again
- Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Yoko Ono, "Why"
"Why," a brilliant slice of experimental rock from Yoko Ono
- Blogs, Bleader May 7, 2012
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Beck's beer has never looked better
Beck's Beer Limited Edition comes to the U.S. for the first time in 25 years.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2012
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Henry Flynt returns to Chicago to lecture and screen films
New York artist, philosopher, musician, writer, and filmmaker Henry Flynt visits Chicago next week
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2010
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Now Playing: Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?
Lincoln Hall presents the Chicago premiere of a new documentary on singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
- Music, Music Review Jan 7, 2010
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Never Mind the Critics
Here’s what local musicians (and other tastemakers) were listening to in 2009.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2007
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What this means for Matthew Barney I don't know.
Ono, it's Bjork.
- Music, Music Review Apr 18, 1996
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Looking Back in Langour
Beatles / Yoko Ono/IMA