Summer Guide 2008
Official User's Guide to Sunshine
Three months of city events, music, movies and more
(2008-05-20)
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Image That
Wanting more from "Indiana Jones"
There are good things and indifferent things throughout this enterprise by the two richest directors who ever lived—are they really worth several billion dollars each?—but most of the best (and worst) moments work from surprise, which reviews have already splashed across the media consciousness. If you want to be surprised, be warned that this piece has spoilers
(2008-05-20)
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Dipping in the L20
Is this Chicago's best restaurant?
I was sure I wasn’t going to like L20. Skip to the hours after my first meal there, and now I’m wondering if L20 is Chicago’s best restaurant. It’s definitely Chicago’s best restaurant opening since Alinea
(2008-05-20)
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Dressing Pretty
UK’s The Long Blondes are more than just clothes
“Couples,” The Long Blondes sophomore record on Rough Trade, released at the start of this month, is darker in nature, if even larger in scope, Jackson and crew—which includes principle songwriter Dorian Cox and a drummer tagged Screech—dig a little deeper into the group’s collective consciousness and emerge from the hole a little dirty
(2008-05-20)
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Eye Exam
Beyond Bondage
What is the face of the new gay avant-garde? The “new guard,” according to Scott Ian Ray, artist and curator of “Yes,” an exhibit at the LAM timed to coincide with the thirtieth-annual International Mr. Leather festival, embraces wearable kink just as the old did, but the uniform has been shed in favor of multitude fashions, from gas masks to latex to superhero costumes
(2008-05-20)
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Bird of Peace
Minnesota-born novelist Louise Erdrich offers a different “Plague”
A glance at the “E” section of your local bookstore would probably not give the impression that Louise Erdrich is a woman willing to wait. Since 1984, the year she debuted with not one, but two books, the Minnesota-born novelist has published more than twenty volumes of poetry, prose, fiction and children’s literature. She also raised four daughters and started an independent bookstore in Minneapolis. This spring, however, Erdrich unveiled proof that she has patience—when she must
(2008-05-20)
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Spin Control
Loving the Web
Thanks to the rise of the Internet and mp3 technology, music is now more accessible than ever. Delivery can be instantaneous, and in many cases free, allowing people a new way to access music that they might never have heard before. Enter birdandwhale.com, a Web site that is dedicated to the personal musical tastes of Brad Loving, a local Chicago DJ who performs regularly throughout the city
(2008-05-20)
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By Design
The Kids are Alright
Fabulous arrived in a big way at Columbia College on May 14 as the school’s eleventh annual student-produced fashion show, Fashion Columbia 2008, glittered and glammed down the runway. Featuring pieces from dozens of student fashion designers—and coordinated by Fashion Retail Management students—this year’s show fused fashion and technology, blending computer-generated fashions with the regular cloth and thread variety
(2008-05-20)
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Portrait of the Artist
Tom Denlinger
We live in a broken world in which even the most planned environments—museums—do not give us respite from cultural fragmentation and disconnection. At least that is what Tom Denlinger shows us in his garishly illuminated color photographs of detritus outside the hallowed halls that he has paired with artifacts within them, showing us that nothing can ever be pristine
(2008-05-20)
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