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Last year, Chicago Shakespeare offered We Are Out There, a digital sneak peek of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair's goofy musical adaptation of the 1953 Universal Pictures sci-fi film, It Came …
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist Sam Thousand moved to Chicago from Texas in 2009, and within a year he'd joined hip-hop fusion outfit Sidewalk Chalk. He's since become deeply e…
"When we go to a skate park, we take up space, and then all of a sudden you don't see a bunch of guys trying to tell you to move out the way, 'cause we're the majority now," says Lid Madrid.…
Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother, has always been one to cite her sources. In addition to performing as a member of Philly-based free-jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, the contralto wo…
Natalie Y. Moore's play The Billboard, now in a world premiere with 16th Street Theater, is subtitled "A Play About Abortion." In the spirit of Chicago improv, allow me to say: Yes, and. The…
LGBTQ+ Chicagoans discuss Mayor Lori Lightfoot's record.
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Nothing was said about it on the July 4 television interviews I saw, but among the security experts interviewed during coverage of the Highland Park parade shooting, one face and name had re…
Of all the bands to emerge from the mid- to late-aughts "shitgaze" explosion in Columbus, Ohio, I loved Times New Viking the best. Despite breaking up a decade ago, they still get plenty of …
CHICAGO " The Reader Institute for Community Journalism is hosting the Lawyers for Social Justice reception on Thursday, July 28, at City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, at 5:30 " 7:30 p.m., wi…
Gossip Wolf has been on the record as a fan of Lollygagger since the local glam-punk goofballs dropped their debut EP, Life on Terminus, in 2018. The band followed it in 2020 with the hilari…
If you're as allergic to crowds as I am, Chicago's many neighborhood music festivals can be a mixed bag. But one event I unequivocally associate with a certain kind of chill is the Square Ro…
Chicago-based percussionist Daniel Villarreal says his debut solo album, Panamá 77, is a soundtrack of his life and an introduction to who he is. "It's about my upbringing and my experien…
At City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, ChicagoThursday, July 28, 20225:30 " 7:30 p.m., with program at 6:00 p.m. The Reader Institute for Community Journalism highlights the intersections o…
After D.C.-area rock group Two Inch Astronaut went on hiatus in 2018, Sam Goblin decamped for the midwest and began making music as Mister Goblin. He's settled in Indiana, but to assemble hi…
Summer's in full swing . . . get out there and enjoy our city!
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The effort is appreciated as far as it goes. But it doesn't matter how enthusiastically you dial if you end up with a bore on the other end of the line.
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This is a skillful but flawed portrait of amateur sports on the global stage that doesn't quite stick the landing.
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Investigating one man's failure to romantically attach to a vacation rando
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Is this in any way, shape, or form defensible as meaningful art? Certainly not. Is it really cute? Yup.
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Xavier Giannoli's film is hilarious and always moving with vivid colors and rapid-fire narration that in another movie might feel heavy-handed but here is a guiding force that gives a fascin…
What this surreal microcosm ends up conveying about the human experience extends past the frame and into viewers' hearts and minds.
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In 2016, Monty Cole made his directorial debut in Chicago with Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape at now-defunct Oracle Productions"and what a debut it was. His staging of the story of Yank, a s…
Lately it seems like every "lost" recording, no matter how inconsequential, is getting pushed on limited colored vinyl for a crass Record Store Day cash grab. Beneath the hype, "archival rel…
Back in the Before Times, I saw Carisa Hendrix perform as her alter ego, dipsomaniacal Lucy Darling, at the Chicago Magic Lounge. Combining va-va-voom Golden Age of Screwball Comedy glitz an…
The grounds are defined by meandering turns of grass and dirt, a rainfall of lightbulbs, a shining blue curve that sometimes picks up projections and reflections of what might be ghosts or c…
