The listed events were chosen by the editors of Chicagoist and brought to you by the 2009 Toyota Corolla. Music The Riverboat Gamblers fucking slay, there's no debate there. Lead singer Mike Wiebe channels Iggy Pop's figuratively red-headed step-child as he thrashes and throws himself across the stage belting out hook-filled punk rawk anthems. No song breaks the 3-minute mark because there's no point in pushing the riffs any further than they need to......

As if the gorgeous weather wasn't enough reason to call out sick for the week, Columbia College give you another with its 11th annual Story Week: Cities of Words. Sunday kicked off the week of words with an alumni reading, and Monday's reading by Anchee Min about Maoist China was tender, raw and funny. With fifteen events over five days, you can't go to everything, but here's where Chicagoist will be: Tuesday: the Graduate Student......

We love our hometown film organizations. Places like the Siskel, Facets and Chicago Filmmakers help insure that the local film scene stays vibrant and relevant. We have always been very proud of Reeling, the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, which just wrapped its 25th incarnation on Sunday. That’s why the news that the offices of Reeling were burglarized Sunday evening particularly pisses us off. According to Brenda Webb at Reeling, “the thief also......

Reeling, the Chicago International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, continues through November 12. Tomorrow at 9 p.m. the French film Looking for Cheyenne screens at Columbia College's Film Row Cinema. Cheyenne, an unemployed journalist, decides that she's fed up with capitalist society and decides to live off the grid by moving to the country. Her beautiful girlfriend Sophie, a high school chemistry teacher, must decide whether she loves her enough to join her. It's a......

Fresh from its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, Adam and Steve makes it's Chicago premiere tomorrow night at IFP/Chicago Producer's Workshop Series. Produced by Columbia College graduate Kirkland Tibbels (who also produced the entertaining 2003 film, Latter Days), Adam and Steve takes a comical look at a gay man who falls in love with one of his most unsuccessful past one-night stands without realizing they had ever met. (Apparently Adam is a fictional comedy,......