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• On the underground

  18-09-2024 23:40 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. This past weekend was the Chicago Underground Film Festival, which I look forward to every year. Partly, of course, for the appropriately motley programming, and partly because I always know a […]
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• Review: Wolfs

  19-09-2024 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Wolfs in limited release in theaters, streaming on Apple TV+ 9/27
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• Review: Transformers One

  19-09-2024 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Transformers One in wide release in theaters
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• Review: My Old Ass

  19-09-2024 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  My Old Ass in limited release in theaters, wide release 9/27
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• Gen Z is into typewriters

  19-09-2024 19:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Typewriter Chicago Hours by appointment; 1525 Ogden, Unit L, Downers Grove
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• The Reader’s guide to World Music Festival Chicago 2024

  19-09-2024 17:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’ve probably noticed that it’s getting harder to afford to live. Americans consistently vote against any policy that might prevent our money from ending up in the pockets of the same two dozen assholes who are already richer than god, so now an estimated 78 percent of us are living paycheck to paycheck.    This is, […]
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• Rage against the dying of the light with a new Monday Night Foodball schedule

  19-09-2024 17:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A waxing gibbous supermoon rose over the car-swept intersection of Campbell and Elston. A white van with tinted windows pulled up to the curb. The doors opened and a cloud of smoke billowed forth, moonbeams cutting through the miasma, rendering two figures slouching in silhouette. Two sauce-stained, off-the-clock cooks stepped forward onto the patio fluorescence […]
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• An excerpt from TAXI GIRL, a novel by Maria Schreiber

  19-09-2024 16:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “All about Yogurt” Four-minute read On Monday, June 3, 1974, Tania and Dan began selling cartons of yogurt from a  canopied, yellow bicycle cart on the southeast corner of   Michigan Avenue and Erie Street in Chicago. At 11:30 a.m. two weeks later, Michael Chappelle looked out the window of his third-floor  office at the Michigan […]
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• Where arts education in Chicago began

  19-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Situated on the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) campus, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum historicizes the influential social settlement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But little has been done to illuminate the innovative arts education piloted at Hull-House until now. “Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935” does just that. The exhibition and […]
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• ‘A poetry show that’s not a total bummer’

  19-09-2024 00:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kost was itching to produce an event last summer. After a nine-month tour of the U.S. with a children’s theater company, the poet-director-writer-performer wanted to create something of their own. They bounced ideas off of their roommate, Lincoln Lodge manager Christian Borkey, including a potential poetry reading or comedy show. Borkey suggested combining both. Kost […]
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• The language in which they dream

  19-09-2024 00:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Stages of Survival is an occasional series focusing on Chicago theater companies, highlighting their histories and how they’re surviving—and even thriving—in a landscape that’s become decidedly more challenging since the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown. When I ask Aguijón Theater cofounder and co-artistic director Rosario Vargas what inspired her to open the company 35 years ago, she […]
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• Subtext Studio Theatre Company and Forest Park Theatre bring drama to the near west suburbs

  18-09-2024 23:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Omar Vicente Fernandez, playwright and Subtext Studio Theatre Company artistic director, first came up with the idea for his play, Que Te Vaya Bien (opening in October as part of Destinos, the seventh Chicago International Latino Theater Festival), at a Cubs game.   Fernandez went to a game alone because his partner had to work that […]
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• CIRCA Pintig launches inaugural Chicago Filipino American Theatre Festival

  18-09-2024 22:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Ginger Leopoldo, RJ Silva, and Giovanni Ortega of CIRCA Pintig set out to produce a festival of Filipino theater, they had heartfelt hopes and modest expectations. “We knew there are Filipinos out there who want to do theater,” Silva recalls. “So we were like, ‘Let’s do a festival to grow our base—maybe two nights.’” […]
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• Looking back at 60 years of CIFF

  18-09-2024 22:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This year marks the occasion of the 60th Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF). To put that into perspective, in 1964, on February 7, the Beatles arrived in New York City for their first U.S. tour, kicking off the British Invasion. Several months later, on July 2, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act […]
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• Onstage front-runners

  18-09-2024 21:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  These are tense times, no doubt about it, and the lingering high temperatures of summer (Climate change? What climate change?) add to the seasonal confusion. But fall is afoot, and so are some of the most exciting live performances of the year, which may have the added bonus of taking your mind off cable news […]
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• Shallot-infused ten-year Shaoxing cocktail at Minyoli

  18-09-2024 21:33 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]. As the dog days of summer come to a close, what everyone really needs is a drink that makes them say, “Ah, meat!” […]
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• The revered, the reviled, and the taste of rubber bands

  18-09-2024 21:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a shot glass filled with Jeppson’s Malört in front of me. I’ve never had Malört. The bottles of amber sadness are inescapable in Chicago—bars, parties, concert venues—and I had heard all the jokes, but never partaken. I am scared. “I’m going to predict that you will find it less bad than you are expecting,” […]
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• Goth-rock legends Gene Loves Jezebel bring their sultry pop to Reggies Music Joint

  18-09-2024 19:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A decade before Oasis’s Liam and Noel Gallagher made headlines with their brotherly feuds, gorgeous fey twins Michael and Jay Aston tore through the British goth-rock scene with their own legendary spats. In the early 80s, the pair left their South Wales hometown for London, where they fell in with the competitive art circles that […]
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• Never Better hits a nerve

  18-09-2024 19:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Avoidant and in denial. Most of us have been there. But when college girl Davy, played by Emma Samuelson in Never Better, leans into these strategies, it causes problems. Still mourning the loss of her mom, she discovers she may have leukemia and begins dissociating from her own life.  Never Better Through 10/13: Thu–Sat 7:30 […]
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• Warm Love Cool Dreams offers a mix of aggressive and chill sounds—and the return of the Jesus Lizard

  18-09-2024 19:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Warm Love Cool Dreams takes inspiration from a disarmingly uncynical line in Nelson Algren’s bleak 1954 novel, The Man With the Golden Arm (set in Chicago’s historic Polish downtown). “The veteran’s flat, placid, deadpan phiz fixed absently upon an oversized roach twirling its feelers invitingly at him with a half-drugged motion from beneath the radiator,” […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 33

  18-09-2024 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 33. September 19, 2024
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• Henry V, portrait of a serial killer

  18-09-2024 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Chicago Shakespeare’s violent, bloody, overstuffed freight train of a production, the traditionally heroic King Henry V is a symbol of unchecked nationalism. Henry VThrough 10/6: Tue 7 PM, Wed 1 and 7 PM, Thu–Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 7 PM, Sun 2 PM; ASL interpretation Fri 9/27, audio description and touch tour Sun […]
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• Los Angeles hip-hop trio Previous Industries repp their Chicago roots

  18-09-2024 19:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Los Angeles hip-hop trio Previous Industries are a relatively new group, but their members’ roots go back decades. Still Rift met Open Mike Eagle while they were in high school at Whitney Young in the late 1990s—both joined Pugs Atomz’s mighty Nacrobats crew before graduating. In the early 2000s, Mike attended Southern Illinois University, where […]
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• The Hyde Park Jazz Festival returns with a compelling mix of local and out-of-town talent

  18-09-2024 18:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The programming for this year’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival once again defies the implicit parochialism of the festival’s name: this is a weekend of music that any major city on Earth would be proud to call its own. The two-day fest balances accessible local acts that go well with picnicking on the Midway Plaisance with […]
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• Passionate flight

  18-09-2024 17:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Northlight Theatre’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, written by Daniel Jamieson, featuring music by Ian Ross, and directed by Elizabeth Margolius, is a delightful journey of love and artistry. Celebratory, passionate, and often tectonic, it follows Jewish painter Marc Chagall, who was born in Vitebsk (then part of the Soviet Union, a town that was […]
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• Vocalo sends off summer with a top-shelf lineup of free Chicago music

  18-09-2024 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Maybe this stretch of sunny 80-degree days has you feeling like summer will never die, but Gossip Wolf has bad news—the equinox that defines the astronomical end of the season falls this weekend. That doesn’t mean that the fun is over, though! Millennium Park’s 20th-anniversary summer season coincides with the second year of its residency […]
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• Fugitive carry the torch of Texas crossover thrash

  18-09-2024 17:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you spent any time in hardcore or metal circles in the 2010s, Power Trip were on your radar. The Texas thrash lords hit the scene like a bat out of hell, and with each passing tour their live shows seemed to get tighter, better, and more unfuckwithable. By the time they released the 2017 […]
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• East Texas Hot Links delivers meaty performances

  18-09-2024 17:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What do we owe our community? Ourselves? Spicy and explosive, the must-see East Texas Hot Links lives up to its name. The latest offering from director Ron OJ Parson at the Court Theatre is a savory treat for even the most discerning theatrical palate. Set in 1955, a group of Black folks sit at the […]
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• The price of truth telling

  18-09-2024 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reading the statistics on femicides in the adjacent exhibit set up for Water People Theater’s The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon triggered my emotions and an alarming memory of my visit to a memorial site for women lost to femicide in Ciudad Juárez. I was with two femme writers researching material related to the […]
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• Hương Ngô on the hidden labor behind technology

  18-09-2024 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with artist Hương Ngô about her new solo exhibition, “This Space Is for Lose Time,” on view at Tiger Strikes Asteroid-Chicago. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. In her latest exhibition, artist Hương Ngô continues to expose memory’s residual effect on the present. This time, […]
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