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• Kanye West Shows Super Fan Status For “Zoolander 2” And Will Ferrell

  27-02-2016 20:38
  
  Source: Bauer-Griffin / GettyAt this point Kanye West’s Twitter account is basically just a constant stream of excitement. You never know what he’s going to say. And sometimes, he jumps online just to share his thoughts on something he likes. We all do.
  This afternoon in a random sequence of tweets, The Life of Pablo rapper talked about his love of Zoolander 2 and Will Ferrell. The film released on Feb 12 to sour reviews with Ferrell playing the role as the villain, Mugatu. And while
  
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• Beyond the Door traces a real-life story of addiction, recovery, and family reunification

  06-09-2024 19:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s not unusual for first-time playwrights to harbor dreams of big names working on their shows, but that dream is a reality for Denise Jones. The Lawndale native has shared her story of overcoming abuse and addiction many times as a minister and motivational speaker, as well as in her 2010 memoir, Who Said It […]
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• A Chicago cop killed someone in a car accident. They blamed a 20-year-old instead. 

  06-09-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This piece was copublished with the Appeal. Timothy Jones wasn’t supposed to be home for long. Nearing the end of his first year at Lincoln University in Missouri in 2013, Jones, a 6’1” student with a close-shorn beard and almond-shaped eyes, realized he needed a break before summer classes began, so he decided to return […]
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• The revolution on film 

  06-09-2024 01:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The climactic monologue at the end of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 black comedy satire The Great Dictator still holds incredible relevance. Surrounded by nearly his entire country, Chaplin’s character, Schultz, a barber mistaken for the dictator Hynkel, also played by Chaplin (à la Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor), uses the speech as an opportunity to […]
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• Checking out the cookbook clubs of the Chicago Public Library

  05-09-2024 23:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With glossy photo spreads and wide page margins, cookbooks are almost as tantalizing as the lifestyles they sell—one in which you’re casually whipping up roasted artichokes after work or preparing a delicious meal for 20 of your closest (hot) friends. The same features that make cookbooks so appealing (nice paper, pretty photos, hard covers) can […]
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• In the universe I create

  05-09-2024 23:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By LaLa Bolander
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• Aussie alternative hip-hop artist Forest Claudette explores identity and queer romance on Moonlight

  05-09-2024 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For Australian singer-songwriter Forest Claudette (born Kobe Hamilton-Reeves), vulnerability is a blessing, not a curse. The soulful alternative hip-hop artist uses their music to work through personal ups and downs: the slow-grooving February single “Kobe Beef,” for instance, feels like an inner monologue, as Claudette opens up about coming out as nonbinary and chooses just […]
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• Mod icon Paul Weller gets introspective on 66

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Music fans often extend their favorite artists some grace as they age. We’ll buy a ticket to a Vegas residency even though the diva’s voice has gotten raspy; we’ll look the other way when a favorite soul singer attempts to get back on the charts by working with an EDM producer. Fortunately for fans of […]
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• Lavender Prairie Queer Country Festival champions LGBTQ+ country artists

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the early 1970s, gay activist and singer-songwriter Patrick Haggerty began to use country music to explore his sexual orientation, share stories, and uplift the queer community. His pioneering 1973 album, Lavender Country, wraps a welcoming arm around you with its deeply personal, observational songs about queer love, life, and liberation, often inviting you to […]
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• La Armada and Racetraitor join forces on a perception-shattering hardcore bill

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than 20 years, fiercely righteous hardcore group La Armada have fought to keep their band together. They left their home country, the Dominican Republic, one by one, and lived in Florida for a time before reconvening in Chicago, which they’ve made their home base since 2008. Their aggressive metallic hardcore sound is flexible […]
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• Italian horror-movie-music master Fabio Frizzi live-scores cult classic Zombie

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The 1970s were an incredible time for Italian genre films. Auteurs were given huge piles of money (and broad creative license) to crank out schlock, including grindhouse movies that piggybacked off popular American titles. Enter Lucio Fulci’s 1979 flick Zombi 2, an unofficial sequel to George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, which had been reedited […]
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• Chicago drone rockers Zelienople continue to reach for the sublime on Everything Is Simple

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than a quarter century, Chicago drone-rock trio Zelienople have evoked the feeling of quietly searching. Their songs are tranquil and eerie, and as often as their music reaches for the sublime, they also let you understand that what they aspire toward isn’t confined to the music—that is, it doesn’t end when the last […]
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• Can Tommy Richman’s white-hot breakout single launch a career?

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Who is Tommy Richman? It’s hard to say from his music, which the Virginia singer has doled out in loosies and EPs for the past couple years. All I could tell for sure from his big stylistics swings (last year’s watery house number “Pray 2 U”) and pop pastiches (this year’s 1980s mash note “Selfish”) […]
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• Rajas con queso bagel sandwich at the Stockyard Coffeehouse

  05-09-2024 21:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. I’m always on a breakfast sandwich hunt. I usually pick cafes based on my particular needs that day, considering my bank account, emotions, […]
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• Great like 68?

  05-09-2024 19:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nothing loomed over this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) like the specter of 1968, when live footage of Chicago police cracking the skulls and dragging the bodies of anti-war protesters invaded living rooms worldwide. Earlier this year, national news outlets began to draw comparisons between then and now: “Is it 1968 all over again?” NPR […]
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• Thoughts and prayers

  05-09-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. After a busy week I usually make it a point to not go out on Fridays, but I couldn’t resist the siren call of a unique-to-me screening event taking place at […]
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• ‘Books saved my life’

  05-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reading is a revolutionary act. That’s the philosophy of Danielle Moore, founder of Chicago’s Semicolon Books. Since opening the first Semicolon bookstore in 2019, Moore has dedicated her business to closing the literacy gap for minority communities in Chicago. Through book giveaways to students, Moore is providing access to and building interest in books—a concept […]
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• ‘I know what I’m worth’: The joys and struggles of Chicago’s migrant go-go boys

  04-09-2024 23:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This article was copublished with City Bureau, a nonprofit journalism lab reimagining local news. Support City Bureau’s Civic Reporting fellowship by becoming a recurring donor. Men dressed solely in underwear pepper an uncrowded, low-lit gay club in Chicago’s Northalsted on a chilly weekend night. Pop music thumps loud enough to drown out intimate conversation. Bartenders […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 31

  04-09-2024 20:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 30. August 29, 2024
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• Shravan Raghuram, indie workaholic

  04-09-2024 19:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Before I interviewed Shravan Raghuram, I already knew he kept busy. I first learned about the 25-year-old drummer in 2023 because he plays in Fruitleather, an experimental rock group with singer and multi-instrumentalist D Jean-Baptiste and bassist Stas Slyvka. Earlier this year I got into one of his other bands, the Courts, an indie-rock trio […]
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• The freaks came out to talk

  04-09-2024 18:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This week, clearly feeling the need to get a jump on things, the New York Times Book Review devoted an entire issue to its list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” as chosen by 503 “literary luminaries.” They didn’t bother to append a “so far” to the headline, though they did describe […]
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• Manic panic

  04-09-2024 18:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Jonathan Demme’s 1986 anti-screwball comedy, Something Wild, Jeff Daniels’s straight-arrow yuppie gets his life turned upside down in a scary way by Melanie Griffith’s wild child, Lulu. That same spirit animates Chicago writer Richard Lyons Conlon’s comedic thriller 7 Minutes to Live—now in a world premiere with brand-new Unexpected Theatre Company (in association with […]
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• Stripping for parts

  04-09-2024 17:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With The Full Monty, Paramount Theatre completes the trifecta of musicals derived from movies about British deindustrialization, on the heels of 2021’s Kinky Boots and Billy Elliot earlier this year. Book writer Terrence McNally and composer David Yazbek’s 2000 take on the 1997 film moves the story from Sheffield in the north of England to […]
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• Daniel Borzutzky on his latest book of poetry

  04-09-2024 17:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with writer Daniel Borzutzky about his new poetry book The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, out now from Coffee House Press. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Daniel Borzutzky’s seventh book of poetry, The Murmuring Grief of the Americas continues his decades-long investigation of the ways […]
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• Musicalizing the legend

  04-09-2024 17:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When legend becomes fact, musicalize the legend (to paraphrase John Ford). Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone follow this strategy again and again over the course of their rousing 1969 musical about the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Facts are ignored, chronology twisted, dramatic moments invented—all in the name of […]
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• Men of Marvel

  04-09-2024 16:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At long last, true believers, the third installment of Mark Pracht’s “Four-Color Trilogy”—The House of Ideas—is here, opening the 2024–’25 season at City Lit Theater. Following Pracht’s first two plays, The Mark of Kane and The Innocence of Seduction, it explores the relationship between two giants of the comic book industry: Stan Lee and Jack […]
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• The dreamscapes of Kendall Hill

  04-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What parts of ourselves do we keep, and what parts do we leave behind? This is the question at the center of FEVERDREAMS, the debut publication from Chicago artist and photographer Kendall Hill.  Told through photography, collage, and stream-of-consciousness prose, FEVERDREAMS is a somnambulant jaunt into a liminal state between the sleeping and waking worlds. […]
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• Best Premium Porn Sites: Top 50 Paid Porn Sites of 2024

  04-09-2024 08:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is no shortage of free porn on the internet, and it’s great for a quick experience, but there are downsides to the free sites. After all, you’re not getting exclusive content, and you have to deal with other annoying things, such as short videos (basically trailers) and spammy ads that may contain viruses. Like […]
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• Rap duo OutPastMidnight celebrate five years of bringing hip-hop to the people

  03-09-2024 22:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Jay Post started his freshman year at Brooks College Prep in 2015, he joined the school’s poetry team, where he met sophomore Jimmi Gordon. Both were big fans of Chicago’s bustling rap scene. “All those guys came up in the same spaces we did,” Post says. “We took the love for music and poetry […]
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• Virginia Jaramillo remains indisputably herself

  03-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Virginia Jaramillo’s “Principle of Equivalence” vivifies the chalk-pale contours of the MCA’s Bergman Family Gallery with a series of luminescent large-scale works that are at turns crisp, curvy, aqueous, and billowing, while works on and of paper appear barren, dry, curious, and craggy. Beginning with the sparest of geometric abstractions and ending with the scientific […]
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