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This story was originally published by City Bureau. Five hundred dollars, no strings attached. That's what the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot"one of the largest guaranteed income pro…
Kehlani's second album, 2020's It Was Good Until It Wasn't (Atlantic), features the brooding, moody, left-of-center R&B that's become their signature. The singer's new LP, Blue Water Roa…
Nothing like an opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art to showcase the exceptional style Chicagoans have, in all their diversity. The festivities in May celebrating artist Nick Cave's sol…
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Produced by Beti Films, Any Given Day follows the story of three Chicagoans struggling to succeed despite mental health challenges.
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Brooklyn is so closely associated with the American cultural zeitgeist of the early 2000s that it's easy to forget how newly "cool" the borough was at the time. During Oneida's […]
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Last year Chicagoland multi-instrumentalist Eric Reyes broke out in emo and pop-punk circles with his debut as Snow Ellet, the EP Suburban Indie Rock Star. It injects the sugar rush […]
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Chicago's Central Camera is a great example of a small business that has persevered through multiple challenges"check out contributor Zinya Salfiti's cover story in our latest issue to read …
The city's SummerDance series is well under way, and today's fusion of live music, dance instruction, and outdoor activities takes place in Englewood's Ogden Park (6500 S. Racine). The fun […
Patrixia reigns supreme in digital clubspace. It's where the 29-year-old DJ feels empowered to be her spookiest, silliest Latinx self. Locally, she's known for DJing goth and industrial part…
That's what makes the Pioneers of Queer Cinema series at Gene Siskel Film Center this month a true event "for the culture": it's a broad survey of movies made by queers, for queers that offe…
In March 2021, Gossip Wolf was bowled over by the debut demo from local grindcore crew Organ Failure. The band packed four merciless rippers into three thoroughly unwholesome minutes, whetti…
It's been a few years since Noir City: Chicago emerged from dark alleyways celebrating film noir, movies that embody the seedier side of everyday life. The pandemic paused the festival . . .…
Film historian, author, and Film Noir Foundation treasurer Alan Rode hosts Noir City: Chicago August 29 through September 1 at the Music Box Theatre.
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Alison Bechdel's family, captured first in her 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home and then in a Tony Award-winning 2015 chamber musical (music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Lisa […]
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There's a reason you rarely see Zorro: The Musical, the 2008 show inspired by a masked Spanish hero (conceived of by Johnston McCulley in 1919 and since the subject of numerous […]
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Meanwhile, life goes on for houseless Touhy Park occupants.
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The century-old camera store has weathered a fire, a flood, and COVID-19.
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Last Sunday, stuffed with antibiotics, numbed by painkillers, and facing a date with an oral surgeon the next morning, I made my way to the International Museum of Surgical Science […]
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Stripping the right to abortion harms incarcerated women.
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After COVID quashed touring for much of 2020 and 2021, we seem to have collectively agreed that anyone celebrating a significant album anniversary could do their victory lap whenever they da…
Windpipes are quite vulnerable to injury.
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Charles Stepney: Out of the ShadowsRotary Connection 222, a large ensemble led by bassist Junius Paul, will perform music from the catalog of Charles Stepney under the creative direction of …
Have you ever been playfully called "crazy" and laughed, only to cry silently in the basement bathroom for two hours? No? Just me? Well, if you've ever stared into the abyss and questioned y…
Politics has always been a "smelly kitchen," to borrow a phrase from Jean Anouilh's version of Antigone. But in 1933, two new cooks entered that kitchen. And the recipes they came up with co…
