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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

An Educated Guess tells an unexpected story about migrant experiences by Alejandro A. Riera

When it comes to portrayals, on the big screen or the stage, of the Latino migrant experience, most stories focus on the journey, on the actual border experience and the abuses many migrants…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:36AM
Friday, February 16, 2024

Steppenwolf for Young Adults brings eminent domain center stage by Alejandro A. Riera

Eminent domain, as defined by Cornell Law School, is “the power of the government to take private property and convert it into public use.” In other words, your property is yours until t…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:26AM
Monday, October 23, 2023

Born under punches by Alejandro A. Riera

If boxing is a metaphor for life, as many scribes, boxing fans, and websites proclaim (just type “boxing as a metaphor for life” and you’ll find over 1.5 million results alone), then f…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:52PM
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Peter Malmö gives a Wisconsin makeover to Pedro Páramo by Alejandro A. Riera

Considered a precursor to magical realism (Gabriel García Márquez claims that reading it gave him the key to mapping out the story for One Hundred Years of Solitude), Juan Rulfo’s 1955 n…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:17AM