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• CHICAT is enrolling now for its No-Cost Career Training Programs in Food Manufacturing, Advanced Maintenance, and Medical Billing

  06-06-2024 14:30
  
  The Chicago Center for Arts and Technology (CHICAT) (located 1701 W. 13th Street; Chicago, Illinois) is currently enrolling for 3 no-cost classes for individuals interested in pursuing careers in Food Manufacturing Quality Technician, Advanced Maintenance Mechanics, and Health Information Technology (HIT) Medical Billing and Coding.
  These programs will start on June 10th and run Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM for nine months.
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• Tacos las Manitas launches a new 2025 season of Monday Night Foodball

  03-01-2025 21:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For two decades the injured, ailing, and elderly patients that Tamara Valdovinos helped to regain their mobility and function had no clue that their physical therapist’s small but powerful hands possessed a second, latent superpower. But when they and her coworkers started catching COVID, the secret street taqueria lurking deep within her began to emerge. […]
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•  Urika’s Bedroom makes sweet and sinister bedroom pop 

  02-01-2025 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Urika's Bedroom Wed 1/15 at Schubas
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• Pianist and pop-culture acolyte Daniel Knox plays a rare hometown show

  02-01-2025 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Daniel Knox Thu 1/9 at Constellation
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• Local trios Black Duck and 60 Strings celebrate the sound of electrified wires

  02-01-2025 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Black Duck and 60 Strings Sat 1/11 at Constellation
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• Chicago bluesman Melvin Taylor is a jewel hidden in plain sight

  02-01-2025 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Melvin Taylor Fri 1/10 at FitzGerald's
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• Chicago art-punk trio Background Character bring the whimsy hard

  02-01-2025 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Background Character Sat 1/11 at Cole's Bar
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• Chicago ambient artist Pan•American brings his album with indie legend Kramer to the stage

  02-01-2025 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pan•American Fri 1/10 at Chop Shop
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• Hitt Records offers a spirited musical history lesson

  02-01-2025 21:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hitt Records, through 1/26 at Black Ensemble Theater
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• Political and personal backlash

  02-01-2025 20:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Day After, through 1/12 at Dreamers YOLO
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• Loud Mouth mouths off at the next Monday Night Foodball

  26-12-2024 22:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Most days, you can find Cindy Mendoza and Matt Pospiech in the dining room at the Piggery slinging nachos, wings, burgers, and sass. “I’m always talking crap,” says Mendoza, “because I’m an asshole sometimes.” “Cindy’s got no filter,” agrees Pospiech. “And that’s why I love her. She takes no bullshit.” A compatible appetite for mouthiness […]
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• Rewind: Bean pie, my brother?

  26-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Bean pie, my brother?” was originally published in the issue of November 18, 2013. Since I first went in search of the sweet, custardy navy bean pie made in accordance with the dietary regimen prescribed by the late Elijah Muhammad, it hasn’t quite gone mainstream, but it might be easier to eat one. Plenty of […]
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• Reader Rewind

  26-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every day of work at the Reader brings new discoveries and challenges but we don’t do this work alone. We have the joy of our readership: those of you who seek out our paper, send friends to our website, and talk online about our stories. We’re also doing this work while trying to keep our […]
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• Sicilian hot chocolate at Sfera Sicilian Street Food

  26-12-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hot chocolate isn’t something I usually go for. While I may crave it a couple times a year, usually around the holidays, it was more in my rotation when I was younger—before I acquired a taste for coffee, matcha, or chai. But they’re doing something different at Sfera Sicilian Street Food. Reader Bites readers might […]
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• Rewind: The original Pink Ladies

  25-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Grease is a movie that’s grown with me as I’ve aged. The first time I saw it was during a winter break from elementary school in Ohio. My excitement for the movie’s dirty denim, black leather, and glittering kitsch could’ve melted the snow outside, and it’s an aesthetic preoccupation that’s come to define much of […]
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• Rewind: On Exhibit: a roomful of Daleys

  25-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the lead-up to this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, media abounded with reflections on and comparisons to its storied 1968 predecessor. And while the city was once again the site of multiple protests against another horrific war, the level of violence and the number of arrests were relatively low compared to what ’68 […]
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• don’t it always seem to go?

  25-12-2024 18:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Adrienne Novy
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 13

  24-12-2024 20:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 13. December 26, 2024.
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• Rewind: Speed Wash

  24-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Grant Pick had a knack for the unusual. During his time as a Reader contributor, he documented residents of a north-side hotel as they fought against displacement, interviewed a local hypnotist who once loaned his services to Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, and profiled a stranger clad with dozens of keys (“the keys to my broken […]
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• Rewind: Punk is dead! Long live punk!

  24-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jessica Hopper has been an important national voice in feminist music criticism since the 2010s, when she became the first music editor at Rookie magazine and assembled teams of top-shelf talent at Pitchfork and MTV News. But 20 years ago, Hopper was still freelancing regularly for the Reader, and she wrote this lively scene report […]
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• Gia Margaret goes viral on the shoulders of a Chill Guy

  24-12-2024 16:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last year, Chicago singer-songwriter Gia Margaret issued Romantic Piano, her first release through mighty midwest indie label Jagjaguwar. I’ve been listening to Margaret since her 2018 debut album, the lush, contemplative There’s Always Glimmer, but since then she’s moved from its delicate arrangements into more overtly ambient music that’s even more sparse and hushed. Romantic […]
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• Review: Babygirl

  24-12-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Babygirl in wide release in theaters
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• Kat Sachs’s best in 2024 moviegoing

  24-12-2024 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. Well, fellow moviegoers, it’s the last column of 2024. I’d ask how we got here, but life careens forth on the same principle as cinema: movement and light. To understand how […]
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• All that’s fit to print

  24-12-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago”” through 3/29 at the Newberry Library
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• Review: Los Frikis

  24-12-2024 00:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Los Frikis in limited release in theaters
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• Chicago Record Report: December 2024

  23-12-2024 21:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hannah A. Barnes, Negative Capability This collection of five pieces showcases the ambition and drive of rising composer Hannah A. Barnes; its sparse soundscapes use canonlike spiral patterns, nonlinear motion inspired by fungal growth, and many sounds that don’t resolve into notes. Barnes recorded this material in various Chicago locations with some of the city’s […]
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• Chicago Reader culture editor Kerry Cardoza awarded Andy Warhol Foundation grant

  23-12-2024 20:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Earlier this month, Chicago Reader culture editor Kerry Cardoza was announced as a grantee of the Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant for her short-form writing. This year, Cardoza published several impactful stories, including the investigative story on the sexual misconduct of the former CEO of Schuba’s, Lincoln Hall, and Audiotree, Michael Johnston. Cardoza’s work […]
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• Omigod you guys!

  23-12-2024 20:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Legally Blonde, through 12/29 at Music Theater Works
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• Pages of the past

  23-12-2024 20:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Berlin Diaries, through 1/5 at Open Space Arts
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• Rewind: Hollywood Shuffle

  23-12-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Putting aside the joy and chaos of “Hollywood Shuffle” reading like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations, this piece from April 2, 1987, is a fascinating time capsule. Not only does it accomplish the classic Reader feat of spotlighting a now-famous Chicagoan at the onset of their career, but it also provides a […]
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