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Any smoker can relate to the feeling of release they get from a cigarette, the satisfying blend of calm relief and buzzy energy. When artist Marcela Torres started smoking cigars […]
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Move over, Grandpa. You think ageism is your cause? Last week, Created Equal, an Ohio-based organization opposed to ending unwanted pregnancies came to town, making stops at the city's large…
When she filmed the music video for "OMG BRITT," a trap anthem off of her new record, Natural Brown Prom Queen, Brittney Parks was determined to smash a violin on […]
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The term "world music" has never been adequate to the task we've set it"even in its most benign reading, it implies a division between the listener and the rest of […]
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Two emotionally intense woman-centered productions are among the offerings at this fall's fifth Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, with the first focusing on the psycho…
The Eastern Medicine Singers are a traditional Algonquin drum and vocal group based in Rhode Island. They sing mostly in several Algonquian languages, some of which are nearly extinct, and […
Gossip Wolf has long believed that physical releases from Fire-Toolz, the wonderfully disorienting flagship project of local electronic musician Angel Marcloid, will one day be swapped among…
Chicago posthardcore four-piece Tar broke up in 1995, and the number of times they've reunited for a show since then you can count on one hand"this gig will be the […]
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Stockholm-based, American-born composer Kali Malone is known for her pipe-organ works, and her path to the instrument was hardly conventional. Five minutes into her first and only organ less…
What if the person you love"the one you want to spend the rest of your life with"were to confess a secret so bizarre, so disturbing, that it makes you question […]
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Bikes aren't cheap"but neither is public transit! If you or someone you know is a Black trans person in Chicago looking for a free bike, sign up for one through […]
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Today's the final day to throw down on a community mural going up in Belmont Cragin. Hades Underworld Tattoo Studio and AnySquared Projects invite volunteers to join them for a […]
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We've reached an "I told you so" moment, dear readers, where I get to say . . . I told you so! It was roughly one year ago that I […]
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All hands on deck! Little Village Environmental Justice Organization is hosting a volunteer day at their farm site (31st and Albany). From 8 AM-noon, they're inviting people to spend some [â…
An untouchable butt, NPR during sex, and more quickies
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Always a staple of the fall dance season, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival opens tonight at 8 PM at Ruth Page Center for the Arts (1016 N. Dearborn), and continues […]
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Amid the tidal wave of turnovers at theaters large and small in Chicago the last two years, we also learned this past February that Deb Clapp, the longtime executive director […]
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The saying goes that all press is good press, but how true can that be if alleged drama surrounding a film overshadows the merits of the film itself?
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Is it a good message to send young girls that they can be bad and do what they want for a little while but when the rubber hits the road they must toe the line?
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Flashbacks to Andor's childhood seem unnecessarily added, as if someone thought an origin of an origin of an origin of Star Wars was a good idea.
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Let's get this out of the way immediately: any similarities between Lynn Nottage's Clyde's, now in its local premiere at the Goodman, and the Hulu series The Bear are purely […]
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Westley Heine never dreamed of singing for change on the streets of Chicago but life sometimes offers only stark choices. Getting by as a musician, artist, or writer is uphill […]
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The chickens roam freely over the pastures at Avrom Farm in Ripon, Wisconsin. But you might have spotted them in the wild this season at the Green City or Wicker […]
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Career politicians are stepping down, and there's now an opportunity for new"and possibly progressive"Black leaders to take the reins.
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