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• Review: Piece by Piece

  30-10-2024 23:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Piece by Piece in wide release in theaters
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• Review: We Live in Time

  30-10-2024 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  We Live in Time in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Conclave

  30-10-2024 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Conclave in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Anora

  30-10-2024 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Anora in wide release in theaters
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• No other land, no other way

  30-10-2024 23:31 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. As of this writing, the documentary No Other Land, which I saw last week at the Chicago International Film Festival, has no planned U.S. distribution. This used to be the case […]
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• The Reader welcomes four new hires  

  30-10-2024 21:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), which operates the Chicago Reader, is excited to announce four recent staff hires. Tatiana Perez (she/her) has accepted the role of Data Associate in the Reader’s Development department. She graduated with an associate’s degree in liberal arts from Morton College and has dabbled in multiple work areas, primarily […]
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• The Chicago Reader’s Leadership Team grows

  30-10-2024 21:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), which operates the Chicago Reader, is excited to announce the recent expansion of its leadership team. Each of these individuals brings extensive experience, expertise and knowledge that will help elevate the Reader’s impact through strengthened philanthropic efforts, innovative product offerings, and strategic operational growth.  “We are thrilled to […]
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• summer surgery

  30-10-2024 21:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Angel Page Smigielski
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• Nobody can say they made Ashlee Bankz

  30-10-2024 18:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Ashlee Bankz arrived at the photo shoot for the cover of her new EP, Go to Hell, she made her presence felt even before she came in sight of the cameras. The south-side rapper had set up the shoot in a West Garfield Park warehouse, and her echoing footsteps on the building’s wooden floors […]
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• Tapping into the infinite generosity of seeds

  30-10-2024 18:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One becomes hundreds becomes thousands. And on a recent weekday, as dusk settled and autumn fell in, a group gathered in search of them: seeds.  Round, rust-colored rose mallow seeds, fluff-ended butterfly weed seeds, and the biting edges of rattlesnake master seeds could all be found in the native plant garden in front of the […]
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• Guava Linzer cookie at Nata

  30-10-2024 17:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I don’t draw many lines when it comes to sweets, but usually, the sweeter and more chocolatey, the better. It came as a surprise, then, when I first bit into Nata’s subtle guava Linzer cookie and found love at first bite. Love isn’t a word I’m tossing around lightly when describing the delicate signature cookie […]
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• A wave of insights and emotions

  30-10-2024 17:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s new production of Until the Flood opens on a makeshift shrine—candles, photos, stuffed animals—to Michael Brown, the Ferguson, Missouri, teenager whose shooting by a police officer inspired the 2014 social uprising at the heart of Dael Orlandersmith’s 2016 script. Orlandersmith originally performed this piece (seen at the Goodman in 2018) as a solo. […]
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• An interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum: ‘It’s a little bit like improvising.’

  30-10-2024 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jonathan Rosenbaum didn’t plan on being a film critic. Born in Florence, Alabama, the incisive writer drew comics as a child before switching over to novels. He had seen plenty of movies growing up, as his grandfather owned a chain of theaters, but it wasn’t until he moved to Paris in his 20s that he […]
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• Rhinoceros rampages with relevance

  30-10-2024 17:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Is it possible for a 65-year-old play to be too soon? Eugène Ionesco’s timeless satire about battling against herd hysteria gets a scrappy, spirited revival at Theatre Y thanks to a heterogenous cast and surprisingly effective dumpster-chic set design, courtesy of local Renaissance man Marvin Tate, director Melissa Lorraine, and the Theatre Y youth apprentices. […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 5

  30-10-2024 17:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 5. October 31, 2024
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• Dreaming in blues

  30-10-2024 17:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Seven Guitars—the seventh play written in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, as well as one of his most lyrical and profound—the lack of an explicit reference to the title can lead to a surprisingly fruitful numerology quest. Yet a mention of the Lord’s Prayer (accompanied by Mahalia Jackson’s haunting vocals) nods toward its seven petitions […]
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• Trumped up

  30-10-2024 16:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Earlier this month, the University of Chicago announced that it had a groundbreaking, AI-enabled new study that analyzed presidential speech and quantified something that’s been widely observed: the distinctiveness of Trump talk. The U. Chicago researchers compared Donald Trump’s speeches to those of other presidents and presidential candidates. They found that he is not only […]
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• The terror at home

  30-10-2024 16:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s a mildly chilly evening when my friend Chester Sikora decides to take me through his neighborhood in Roselle to look at Halloween displays. I’m not expecting much; they’re just people’s houses after all. It turns out I’m dead wrong.  We park in front of a house with a ticket booth up front. The booth, […]
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• Tangled fairy tale

  30-10-2024 15:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m admittedly biased as a pianist, but as soon as I saw two grand pianos center stage in the Chopin Studio Theatre, I immediately felt that Into the Woods was in good hands with Kokandy Productions. But then, I was never in much doubt. Kokandy’s 2022 production of Sweeney Todd was a triumph, and I […]
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• Whose story is it anyway?

  30-10-2024 15:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Zorra” is the Spanish word for “fox”; in Mexico, it can also be a pejorative for “whore,” “slut,” and “tart.” As she takes the stage to make her case to the audience who stand in for a jury, Helen of Troy not only uses these terms to describe how she’s been seen throughout history and […]
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• Complicating the Rust Belt

  30-10-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Rust Belt, the postindustrial midwest, flyover country. Are these terms—which describe the area roughly from Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York—useful anymore? Were they ever? Every four years, the mainstream media parachutes into Small Town, USA to paint in broad, generic strokes what “real America” is like, imbuing the area with the power to sway […]
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