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The UrbanTheater Company's performing space on Division Street is not small"I have seen them stage plays there just packed with actors"but it is really not large enough to contain all […]
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Aleshea Harris's 2018 performance piece, What to Send Up When It Goes Down, had its local premiere this past spring with Congo Square Theatre Company in a production that played […]
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Once again, Chicago has lost a legendary musician, and in this author's opinion there haven't been nearly enough public tributes. Jim Post was a crucial part of the Old Town […]
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Everyone knows that the popularity of the McDonald's McNugget led to the eradication of the passenger pigeon, the Bering cackling goose, and the Spix's macaw. That's ancient history, man. Bu…
Last October, musician and curator Emily Beisel began booking the monthly Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts, which centers femme and nonbinary performers"and they follow their sets with improv…
Magician Paige Thompson takes over the artist-in-residence slot at Chicago Magic Lounge (5050 N. Clark) with her show A Paige in Time, opening tonight at 7 PM and running Wednesdays […]
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Chicago Books to Women in Prison partners with Women and Children First to get books behind bars.
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Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based rapper Open Mike Eagle is a seemingly inexhaustible font of laugh-out-loud one-liners, and he delivers as always on his latest album, Component System With th…
It's the first Tuesday of the month, which means that Reader senior writer Ben Joravsky and former Reader staffer Maya Dukmasova host their monthly live interview show at the Hideout […]
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It starts with the hips"that's the first thing you'll notice when you watch Divino Niño play live. The Chicago-based five-piece can't seem to stand still onstage. First their swaggering h…
Some guys just see me as their gay Black fantasy come to life.
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Over the past two and a half years, I've assembled a lot of lists for Bandcamp Friday. I like sharing music that's unfamiliar to people, and the occasion of a […]
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Most people are lucky to have one act that hits. William Horberg is well into his third. Horberg was born in Chicago and grew up around Belmont and Broadway in […]
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Plenty of bands do a lot with compact lineups, but few can match the huge black-hole vortex of sound that Petbrick creates. The London-based duo of British multi-instrumentalist and producer…
Significant issues remain around police use of involuntary commitments.
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It's never too late to learn a new skill, or polish an old one. Chicago has many organizations that offer adult education classes and workshops designed to teach students new […]
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival defied the pandemic with ingenious safety accommodations in 2020, presenting 18 brief pop-up concerts in parks, pedways, and sidewalks between 40th and 61st Stree…
I've heard plenty of great songs that capture the dissociative lonesomeness and strange thrills of navigating interpersonal relationships now that so much human communication is sucked up by…
Teens 14-18 years old looking to break into the streaming eco-system can get livestream certified through the Chicago Public Library's YOUmedia program at Harold Washington Library Center (4…
Today is the final day of the Chicago Vintage Fall Fest (19th and Blue Island), an outdoor gathering of vendors, music, and more, happening from noon-8 PM. Fabulous Freddies Italian […]
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Gerber/Hart is partnering with the Leather Museum (6418 N. Greenview) for a free screening of AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman. Connie Norman was a trans woman who advocated […]
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Director, editor, and producer Maria Breaux taps into the bratty ferocity and cries for revolution of the 1990s riot grrrl movement with her crowdfunded feature film Vulveeta, premiering as …
Bros is a genuinely funny movie with nuanced emotional heft.
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Sierra Pettengill's disquieting documentary uses only archival footage shot by the military and clips from period news coverage to explore this uncanny episode in the country's history.
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Syms's work"which ranges from performance art to gallery installations to this more straightforward narrative endeavor"is compelled by a preternaturally propulsive energy that sustains its m…
