Fall Forward 2008
The Guide to the New Season
A look at upcoming film, music, art, theater and more
(2008-09-02)
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Getting There
Maps & Atlases finally give us more songs
When Maps & Atlases’ “Tree, Swallows, Houses” EP broke in 2006, it felt as if the band was taunting you, that the math-rock wizardry was almost antagonistic in its assault. Live, the local four-piece overwhelmed the senses—but, mostly, visually
(2008-09-02)
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Art Break
Fall Openings: A Gallery Preview
As we consider the fall lineup in the West Loop gallery district, it’s probably best to start with a roundup of a few changes that took place over the summer while the rest of us were off educating our palettes with Old Style, PBR and brats
(2008-09-02)
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Inside the Urban Belly
Chef Bill Kim serves bellies in Avondale
Urban Belly, Chef Bill Kim’s new Avondale noodle and dumpling house, is decent Asian food for unadventurous pseudo-foodies and hipsters with money to burn. Of course, you wouldn’t know it, as most of the local-eater-and-journalist set are drooling in their noodles and falling over their Twitter and blog-software interfaces and Yelp postings anointing it as the Second Coming
(2008-09-02)
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Adventures in Tussling
San Francisco genre-benders Tussle hit the Bottle
A strange mutant strain of virulent disco, krautrock and rocktronic rhythms has been spreading from San Francisco, as instrumental genre-bender Tussle pushes its unique percussive sound. Tussle is touring behind its recently released third album, “Cream Cuts.” One of the founding members and self-described “knob twiddler” Nathan Burazer took time out during his lunch to talk about the new album and Tussle’s upcoming set as part of the five-day Adventures in Modern Music showcase
(2008-09-02)
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Silent Light
Picturing the movies of tomorrow
Nobody knows anything. Veteran screenwriter and rackety curmudgeon William Goldman wrote "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men," among many other movies, but he wound up being most remembered for reducing his life's experience in the screen trade down to that single epigram: "Nobody knows anything." "The Dark Knight" has become the second highest-grossing film of all time in North America, passing the half-billion-dollar mark, and equally compelling arguments have been made that Christopher Nolan's ambivalent work is in fact liberal, is in fact conservative, is in fact fascist. Who knew?
(2008-09-02)
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True American Style
Style
When Donatella Versace dedicated her 2009 Spring/Summer collection to Barack Obama at her Milan show, it was an seamless melding of fashion and politics. Similarly, finding the perfect accessory to proudly announce your chosen political candidate shouldn’t seem like a tacky add-on to your otherwise stylish wardrobe. With the election just around the corner, there’s time to pick up some tasteful gems that say: "I'm an American. I have an opinion. And I have a chic way of supporting it"
(2008-09-02)
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Art Break
Allegoric
Allegoric, the curatorial force of Kim Hoffman and Matthew Hoffman (no relation), encourages the growth of artistic integrity and sincerity beyond the boundaries of the gallery establishment. Their method is to bring awareness to both emerging artists and alternative spaces
(2008-09-02)
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FICTION REVIEW
The Good City
If time has been on anyone’s side for the past two years, author Marcus Sakey is our best bet. After meeting outstanding reviews from literary crime fiction’s largest critics with 2007’s “The Blade Itself,” Sakey has yet again sent his critics on parade with his latest contribution to the genre
(2008-09-02)
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