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Steve Walters in his studio in 2016, holding an artwork he screen printed for a client. Greg Ayer Steve Walters, 57, is a Chicago artist and screen printer. In 1991 he founded Screwball Press, which he still runs today; its come to be recognized as a pioneering and influential local institution in the business of screen-printed rock posters. He creates original a...

Tim Daisy; Matt Piet at the Hungry Brain pre-COVID Photos by Marek Lazarski and Morgan Ciesielski The COVID-19 pandemic has put tens of millions of Americans out of work, but even considering that bleak landscape, musicians have been hit especially hard—most of their jobs only barely exist now, and the infrastructure that might allow them to return someday is i...

click to enlarge The Readers first gig poster of 2021 is a tribute to jazz, Cuba, and collaborative concert organizing by a designer with roots in alternative weekly papers. Venerable local arts presenter HotHouse, which has been bringing diverse online programming to international audiences for the past few months, celebrates its 34th year with HotHouse Meets Havana, a five-night stream of Latin-jazz musicians based in Cuba inte...

click to enlarge Joe Newton Q: I could really use your advice. I recently found my boyfriends HIV meds while I was house-sitting for him and went into his cupboard for a multivitamin. Weve been dating for a year and I had assumed he was negative. Im negative myself and on PrEP and he is undetectable, so I know there is essentially zero ri...

Synopsis: In an effort to get out of her performance contract at The Rhinestone, Jake Farris (Dolly Parton) makes a bet with her manager that she can turn any man he picks into a country star. When her manager picks New York cabbie Nick Martinelli (Sylvester Stallone), its clear shell have her hands full if she wants to win the bet.  Janet Maslin of The New York Times felt Partons acting was superb, yet wrote that the film as a whole was far from outstanding. "As Mr. Stallone wends his way th...

Monday January 18 commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and there are several ways to participate in our yearly tribute to one of the architects of the civil rights movement. MLK Day has been observed in all 50 states since the year 2000, making the Public Enemy song “By The Time I Get to Arizona” a piece of history (but in this writer’s opinion, a historical jam). A few of the interesting online programs scheduled: The City of Chicago’s annual Interfaith Celebration...

Tribune, Phil Vettel is leaving. Courtesy of Chicago Tribune/E. Jason Wambsgans After 31 years as the Tribune dining critic, Phil Vettel has announced his last day at the newspaper will be Friday. His decision to accept a buyout means Chicago will no longer have a full-time food critic — a position that brings a certain civic cachet, coupled with cultural significance for the city. It’s a blow inflicted by souring relations with Alden Capital, the paper’s largest investor and a hedge fun...

James Bond movies: Ranking 007s best, worst and everything in between Sean Connery set the standard back in the 1960s. Daniel Craig brought 007 into the 21st century. Heres how their Bond movies, and those with the other Bonds, stack up. Listen - 04:04 Not stirred: This lineup at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin presents all the actors whove played James Bond in the legendary Eon Productions movies. From left: Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Daniel ...

Bandcamp / Buy Fifty-some years ago, Nina Simone recorded a song for the children. On its face, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” offers encouragement and hope. Beneath the surface, its somber chords and heavy gait reach for something more complex, unable to ignore the darkness clouding the aspirations of the next generation. In 1969, there were plenty of reasons for a young Black person to feel broken. Within the decade, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and four little girls in...

Recent compositions by Pablo Chin draw inspiration from the narratives of film and literature, phonetic structures in text, and the use of idiosyncratic transcription and conversion methods that enable imaginative exploration of pre-existent musics. His works have been performed in the Americas, Israel, Hong Kong, and Europe by artists like Ensemble Recherche, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, and others. A Costa Rican native, he earned a DMA in composition at Northwest...