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Youth soccer coach Ernie Alvarez recounts his days in Douglass Park.
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Brittney Griner was everywhere at the 2022 WNBA All-Star Weekend in Chicago. On July 9 and 10, all around Wintrust Arena in the South Loop, you could see her initials, BG, printed in block l…
As the game's popularity declines nationwide, the Morgan Park Mustangs are a beacon for the future of the sport
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In 2017, foundational Chicago footwork collective and record label Teklife dropped On Life, a compilation highlighting all the producers in its wider family. That record became a series, and…
In the waning moments of the Pitchfork Music Festival in 2019, with Khruangbin's vibey guitar music wafting over the sun-dappled, sleepy Sunday crowd, I bumped into a stranger who recognized…
Many people are starting to refocus on wellness and realizing that their relationship with alcohol isn't particularly . . . sustainable. And as is the case with all toxic connections that ha…
The tap water at Stateville has been dangerous for decades.
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From 3-7 PM, Rogers Park hosts its annual Taco Crawl, where 14 local restaurants from across the neighborhood (Taqueria El Dorado, Urban Tables, Supermercado Roman, and La Choza to name a fe…
Vivid green fluid silently courses down a vertical stack of cascading glass tubes on the third floor of the Plant, the sustainability-oriented Back of the Yards small business incubator wher…
This is a great play for the summer"despite its title"because The Winter's Tale is as much about the coming of spring as it is the dreary desolation of December. At least that is what direct…
So, a bicyclist walks up to a beach on the North Shore. It's hot, he's been riding, he just wants to put his feet in the cool Lake Michigan water that he can see sparkling behind a booth and…
The Chicago premiere of David Alex's sociopolitical drama ENDS, directed by Davette J. Franklin, follows two men who represent conflicting visions of life in America. Set in 1967, the story …
On its ten-year anniversary and return from a COVID-19 hiatus, Midsommer Flight is restaging A Midsummer Night's Dream,the play that started it all in 2012. On the night I attended, the crow…
Ken Ludwig is best known for high-octane farces such as Lend Me a Tenor, but in Dear Jack, Dear Louise, he goes for tender epistolary romance. Based on the love-affair-via-letters story of h…
Since it opened in 2009, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op has been a community staple in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood and beyond. But what makes a co-op a co-op? We spoke with Dill Pickle g…
The same day that I saw Nikki Lynette's new musical Get Out Alive with Haven, the U.S. rolled out the new 988 phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, with the promise that …
What would you do with 22.4 pounds of treats?
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California singer-songwriter Cuco (aka Omar Banos) makes distinctively woozy bedroom pop that mixes vocals in Spanish and English with laid-back beats, fuzzy guitar reverb, synth wash, 808s,…
On being attracted to people with penises and also being extremely not into penises
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Northwest Indiana's punk scene would be a lot less thrilling without Mat Williams"he's been the engine behind many of the local bands whose names have filled homemade gig flyers around the R…
Chicago's newest record store specializes in all things metal. Meteor Gem occupies a garden-level boutique at 3082 N. Elston, and its stock is so laser-focused on extreme music"including dea…
The Cosmic Country Showcase is an acid-infused variety show that happens a handful of times per year at the Hideout, and on July 23, its presenters are repotting this ravenous alien plant (t…
Jones does her best with what she has to work with, and the movie may still strike an emotional chord with viewers if they don't look too closely.
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If you're going to title your movie The Sea Beast, you need to commit to a beast that earns its billing.
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