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• A. Savage returns to the U.S. for an intimate two-night stand at the Empty Bottle

  27-09-2024 21:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Longing is the painful emotion that grows in the fertile expanse between desire and possibility. A. Savage’s solo work thrives in this space. As one of the front men for Brooklyn mainstays Parquet Courts, Savage made a mark on the 2010s indie-rock scene with his sharply observational songwriting and deadpan vocals. In his solo work, […]
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• Twin Talk achieve the freewheeling beauty of their live show on a new studio album 

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The instrumentation of Twin Talk—tenor sax, double bass, drums, and vocals—suggests a traditional jazz combo, but the long-running Chicago group have carved out a singular niche. The trio’s members are all heavyweights in their own right, with broad creative networks. Saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi has a deep catalog as bandleader; bassist and singer Katie Ernst is […]
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• Panopticon refines its dark pastoral vision of Appalachian black metal

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Austin Lunn’s most recent album as Panopticon, 2023’s The Rime of Memory (Bindrune), is in some ways his most traditional black-metal outing. The Louisville musician expanded the possibilities of the genre when he saturated his fifth record, 2012’s Kentucky, with Appalachian folk interpolations and explicit pro-labor ecological politics. While those elements are still present on […]
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• London producer Tim Reaper leads a new wave of jungle around the world

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In July 2020, East London dance producer Tim Reaper (born Ed Alloh) released the first EP in his ongoing series Meeting of the Minds: on each track, he collaborated with a different artist. Reaper is a leading figure in the recent wave of new artists making jungle—this dense, percussively busy style, an ancestor of drum […]
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• J.R.C.G. bring their trippy, percussive sound to the Empty Bottle

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  J.R.C.G. knows how to bang it out. The band is the J.R.C.G. has a similarly drippy, smeary aesthetic, but it’s distinguished by the generous use of percussion. At live shows, several players beat and bounce on various instruments—maracas, tambourines, an auxiliary stand-up drum kit, a sampler pad—to generate rhythms while feeding off one another’s energy. […]
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• Czech prog-punk band Už Jsme Doma play a rare Chicago show at an intimate space

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Czech prog-punk band Už Jsme Doma formed in 1985, four years before the country’s Velvet Revolution brought four decades of communist rule to a peaceful end. Before the revolution, the authorities suppressed anything they perceived as Western rock music, and Už Jsme Doma could perform only covertly; what recordings they could make circulated like samizdat. […]
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• After a two-year hiatus, Cupcakke tours to support a delectably raunchy new album

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pearl clutchers beware! Chicago rapper and singer Cupcakke is back with her spicy brand of femme-fatale-forward hip-hop. Born Elizabeth Harris on the city’s south side, Cupcakke had an exceedingly rough childhood, and she doesn’t shy away from talking about her experience of homelessness, predation, and sexual violence. She’s among the upper echelon of local lyricists, […]
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• Dean Carter released one of the most otherworldly rockabilly singles ever made

  27-09-2024 21:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Secret History of Chicago Music sometimes travels a bit—to cover a special subject, I’ve extended my range northwest to Rockford, west to Geneva, and southwest to Belleville. For this installment, we head 150 miles south to Danville, a city of about 29,000 on the Indiana border. Danville was founded in 1827 on land that […]
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• Diana Solis and Patric McCoy document LGBTQ+ joy

  27-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is something extraordinary about physical photo albums for me. There’s a warm feeling of belonging that accompanies each page turned, as new perspectives are gained of stories I’m only vaguely familiar with. Photo albums enliven personal histories when words can’t convey the depth of the moment. I was reminded of this sensation while visiting […]
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• Worlds collide with Chacko’s Tacos at the next Monday Night Foodball

  27-09-2024 00:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2015, James Kanookadan showed up at a downtown hotel ballroom with a bunch of Tupperware containers and mason jars and threw together a Kerala fried chicken sandwich with mango pickle mayo in four minutes. It got him past the first round of auditions for MasterChef. In 2024, he showed up on the patio of […]
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• Review: The Wild Robot

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Wild Robot in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Patrice: The Movie

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Patrice: The Movie in limited release in theaters and streaming on Hulu
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• Review: Never Let Go

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Never Let Go in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Child Star

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Child Star streaming on Hulu
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• Review: A Different Man

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A Different Man in limited release in theaters, followed by wide release
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• AI meets Afrofuturism

  26-09-2024 17:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m not totally used to artists openly exploring the deeply humorous, even unserious nature of their work. But in “Revisionist History,” artist Tyanna J. Buie encourages viewers to chuckle with her at an AI interpretation of her family legacy, had it not been sidetracked by the centuries-long, diasporic impact of colonialism. Beginning with a set […]
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• Light Switch is a warm look at queerness and neurodiversity

  26-09-2024 17:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Autism onstage arguably really came into its own with Simon Stephens’s 2012 stage version of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. In 2017, Mickey Rowe, who played autistic Christopher in a coproduction of the play with Indiana Repertory Theatre and Syracuse Stage, became the first actor with autism to […]
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• A tale of two brothers

  26-09-2024 16:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I don’t gotta spend my whole life hustling,” Lincoln says. “There’s more to Link than that.” Before he spent his days impersonating Abraham Lincoln at his assassination in an arcade, Lincoln was a three-card monte street hustler. He was a damn good one at that—and his little brother Booth constantly implores Lincoln to teach him […]
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• What would Fat Jesus do?

  26-09-2024 16:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Von Harris wanted to cook his Great-Grandma Shortstop’s greens for his high school classmates and teachers. It was one of a series of lunches that served as evaluations for an advanced cooking class called Chef and Restaurant Cooking. For his prep list, the 15-year-old Hinsdale South sophomore requested collard, mustard, and turnip greens, along with […]
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• They keep their victims ready

  26-09-2024 16:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2022, Omer Abbas Salem scored a hit with his dramedy about a Syrian American family, Mosque4Mosque, produced by About Face Theatre. Salem’s latest, Happy Days Are Here (Again), now being presented by Steep Theatre at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater, is far removed from the warm and witty feeling that permeated his earlier work. But given […]
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• An array of Ariels

  26-09-2024 15:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Open the program for Idle Muse Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest and you might assume there’s a typo at first glance. Six actors are credited as Ariel, an ethereal spirit who serves Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan who raises his daughter and practices sorcery on a remote island.  The TempestThrough 10/20: Thu–Sat 8 […]
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• A mighty Wind

  26-09-2024 00:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Let us take a moment to celebrate the welcome return of Harry Lennix to our local stages this year. After playing a Jesse Jackson–like figure in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose at Steppenwolf and August Wilson in the late playwright’s theatrical memoir, How I Learned What I Learned, produced by Congo Square Theatre Company at the Broadway […]
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• A light repast

  26-09-2024 00:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Is it odd to see Michael Frayn’s 1982 theatrical farce, Noises Off, onstage at Steppenwolf? Yes. Could Anna D. Shapiro’s cast do a little more to flesh out the material? Probably yes. Will you have a delightful time anyway? Also probably yes (unless you hate farce, which is a perfectly acceptable stance).  If we’re going […]
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• Sunshine and blow jobs

  25-09-2024 22:42 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. More than just movies, I love the moving image. This takes many forms, including the amorphous “installation,” a channel with limitless possibilities of expression. This past weekend, I was on a […]
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• Smoked brisket taco at Antique Taco in Bridgeport

  25-09-2024 22:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’ve lived in Chicago for almost 25 years, and while it’s difficult to find a taco I’d flatly call bad, the bar is set high for a truly standout, superior version of the portable classic. At Antique Taco in Bridgeport, the smoked brisket taco is a must-order. Brisket isn’t usually something I seek out. Elsewhere, […]
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• WateRR comes to rap as a teacher

  25-09-2024 18:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As the story goes, hip-hop was born on August 11, 1973, at a back-to-school dance party hosted by DJ Kool Herc. In the more than 50 years since, hip-hop has evolved into a world-changing cultural movement and a massive moneymaker, but from early on it’s consisted of five key elements: MCing, DJing, graffiti, breaking, and […]
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• Prayer Candles

  25-09-2024 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Casey Cereceda
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• Tasha returns from her brand-new hometown to celebrate her third album

  25-09-2024 17:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last Friday, Chicago singer-songwriter (and occasional Reader contributor) Tasha Viets-VanLear released her third full-length album, All This and So Much More. Her gentle indie-rock sensibilities have evolved to accommodate wide-screen expression, but she’s kept her tenderhearted intimacy intact. September has been an eventful month for Viets-VanLear—about a week before All This and So Much More […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 34

  25-09-2024 17:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 34. September 26, 2024
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• Mona’s kids

  25-09-2024 16:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nasir knows just how to make his brother laugh. The 15-year-old has that special sixth sense of the comedic pressure points all siblings have for each other. When Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked his family’s home during a raid on the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Nasir kept his brother calm, and […]
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