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From 9 AM-1 PM, Catatumbo, a worker-owned cooperative farm in Englewood, is inviting volunteers to grow (pun intended) their land knowledge by helping the farm build out their space. During …
Content warning: This column contains a reference to sexual violence. As I write, it's Labor Day"traditionally, the start of the election season. That means "normal" people start to sorta pa…
If art fairs like EXPO and Frieze are about making a splash with Instagrammable booths and recouping onerous exhibition fees, what are smaller-scale alternative ones for? MdW, an alternative…
If you're looking for music that pulls no punches, head over to Subterranean (2011 W. North) this weekend for Dreary North Fest, three nights of extreme music running the gamut […]
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Back in 2016, I climbed up the narrow stairs at the Den Theatre in Wicker Park to see a young solo performer embody the residents of a memory care center […]
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In partnership with the University of Illinois Chicago's Disability Cultural Center, Babes With Blades's interpretation of one of Shakespeare's darkest plays is exciting and subversive. From…
Six years ago, Lifeline Theatre unveiled the world premiere of Christopher M. Walsh's Miss Holmes"a cunning gender-bent take on Arthur Conan Doyle's Baker Street polymath that predated the f…
If you didn't know that Noël Coward was an actor as well as a playwright, you'd figure it out within minutes of seeing any of his plays: how else to […]
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"Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true," reads the supertitle projected over a stage sparsely set with stools. Enter a small conference of artists tasked with […]
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The tangled recent history of Victory Gardens Theater became even more complicated this week with the mass dismissal of the remaining staff members in the wake of an attempt to […]
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It's sad when a talented band's closest brush with fame is almost finishing a soundtrack for a movie that never existed, ending up with nothing but demos where one of […]
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When Santigold emerged in the late 2000s, her hip alterna-pop seemed to waltz out of left field, incorporating elements of every genre she could put her hands on: punk, hip-hop, […]
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Hey electronic artists, wanna level up your Ableton game? Join Penthouse Audio Group at Hush (311 W. Chicago), where you can get track feedback from professionals. Ableton-certified program …
We're close to the end of "Volume 51" in a few issues. Yes, that means that we have survived nearly 51 years of publication, a feat that perhaps no one […]
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The push to solve poverty through government-backed cash grants is nearly 100 years old.
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Printers Row Lit Fest has been bringing all things literary to the streets of the Printers Row neighborhood for 37 years. The festivities return for the second weekend of September […]
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Since we left her last June, Jordan Wimby has taken a rational approach to pop-ups. "The amount of food enslaved people were given by owners was referred to as rations," […]
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If you're downtown and want a little lunchtime terpsichore, head over to the Daley Center Plaza (50 W. Washington) today at noon for a free hour-long performance by Ballet 5:8, […]
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This week, the WorldScene Film Residency culminates in a film festival curated to illuminate the struggles of young men entangled in the justice system, giving the detainees a voice to share…
At VSOP Studios in West Town, Naomi Graham sits on a black couch humming a song she's working on called "Tainted Subs." She has on a black hoodie and leggings […]
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Cellist and sound artist Dorothy Carlos moved to Chicago last year to begin an MFA in sound at the School of the Art Institute, but she's got a foot planted […]
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This is the Chicago theatrical premiere of The Batwoman and the U.S. theatrical premiere of The Panther Women.
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The stage is dark and lightly clouded with fog"in the distance, a dense heap of jumbled objects signals the end of systems and uses. Booms Day brings us into the […]
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When Sandra Cisneros talked about romance, writing, and faith over Zoom from her bright home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she discussed her own poetry but also referred to […]
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Today the exhibition "Palette and Palate" opens at Madron Gallery (1000 W. North). It's a retrospective celebrating Chicago's Riccardo's Restaurant and Gallery that anticipates a PBS documen…
