What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Nov 17, 2014 3:00PM
- Show your Ventra pass at Glazed and Infused's Wicker Park location starting Monday, Nov. 17, and you get a 'buy one, get one free' doughnut deal.
- Run The Jewels, the hip-hop duo consisting of El-P and Killer Mike, will be at Reckless Records' Lakeview location next Saturday, Nov. 22, for an in-store signing.
- A friend of Darby Tillis, one of Illinois’ first death row exonerees, remembers the anti-death penalty activist and musician in light of his passing last week.
- This weekend, we brought you a precisely curated list of tracks to help you get moving and keep it that way, from warm up to cool down.
- Will recent revelations about campaign contributions and risky interest rate swaps hurt Mayor Emanuel at the polls in four months?
- The Matches didn't play arenas or make it to the radio, but, in 2004, they wrote an album that still holds up as smart, accessible and talented ten years later.
- Kartemquin Films will screen the restored version of its legendary 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary. The two Chicago screenings take place next month at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Our Weekend Theater was three Siskel & Ebert segments hyping Hoop Dreams around the time of its original theatrical release.
- Lorde covered Chicago singer Jeremih's latest hit, "Don't Tell 'Em," for the BBC.
- A distinct air of sadness informed Saturday's "Around Town" gallery.
