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Ele Matelan didn't plan on making a career out of sound effects. Like a lot of Chicago theater artists, she moved here after college (at Southern Methodist University) to pursue acting. She …
When the average person develops vision trouble, they might just pick up a pair of reasonably priced reading glasses at a neighborhood pharmacy. If they require a more customized solution, t…
"It's always quiet around here until it's not," said my neighbor from down the street, petting her big dog's head. Her dog was sitting contentedly in the grass near the lagoon in Sherman Par…
Chicago has quietly expanded the surveillance technology's footprint"but it's still disproportionately listening to Black and Brown communities.
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If trend studies are any indication, Hybrid Work"a work style in which employees blend working from different locations, whether from home, an office or coworking space"is here to stay. From…
Like several post-pandemic shows in Chicago, the Artistic Home's production of The Pavilion, written by Craig Wright and directed by Julian Hester, is about an intimate relationship between …
MJM dom seeks …
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A wooden rowboat and plastic sheets lining two back walls are the only decorations for Sarah Tolan-Mee's English-language adaptation of Heiner Müller's 1982 cry-of-anguish riff on war, betr…
When everyone on the stage is excellent, it shows a director fully in command of the material. That's the case with Cody Estle's production of The Luckiest by Melissa Ross, receiving its Chi…
Laura Schellhardt's Digging Up Dessa was commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center as part of its Theater for Young Audiences program in 2018. But this play, now in its Chicago premiere wit…
Chicago band Gentle Heat play no-nonsense indie rock that captures the allure of a towering blaze in the space of a single spark. On their new full-length, Sheer (Flesh & Bone), they pac…
In the 2015 horror film The Blackcoat's Daughter, there's a midnight scene where a teenager named Kat slips out of her room and into her boarding school's dorm basement. An older girl named …
Englewood rapper Heavy Crownz blends art and community organizing.
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"Here is a theater. No curtain, no wings, no scenery. Just an empty space." Konstantin Treplev, the young and hungry artist manqué in Anton Chekhov's Seagull, intones these words before the…
Where to find the Chicago Reader in print every other week. The Reader available free of charge at more than 1,100 Chicago area locations. Issues are dated Thursday, and distributed Wednesda…
On an industrial strip of Rockwell just off Elston, beyond a white door with numbers painted in red, past a makeshift bar, through a dark curtain lies a white brick room filled with smoke. T…
Eli Schmitt, 20, moved to Chicago a couple years ago to attend DePaul, where he studies journalism and art history. In that time he's become a crucial connector in an emerging youth arts mov…
The year was 1834. Indigenous communities were being displaced from their ancestral homelands on the forced march known as the Trail of Tears. Over two million people of African descent were…
​Nobody just wakes up and says, "I'm gonna make roti today." Not for the first time, anyway, and not without preparation. So says Dawn Lewis, who over the last four years earned the t…
Regarding the recently revealed U.S. Supreme Court draft ruling on Roe v. Wade: WTF? Because, it's the F we're talking about, right? That little itch we're biologically programmed to scratch…
In the last few weeks, Mayor Lightfoot has revealed several important details about the casino she's pushing so hard to develop, including . . . Where it will go"near Chicago and Halsted on …
I've never been the type to have a single favorite artist (I've probably got 100, depending on the context or mood), but for more than a decade I've counted Italian psychedelic-metal group U…
Local four-piece Mystery Actions remind Gossip Wolf of the cool, slightly intimidating kids from the Chicago street-punk scene in the late 80s and early 90s, when it centered on Clark and Be…
I heard a lot about the glory days of the Fireside Bowl even before I moved to Chicago, and I loved the way the venue brought together bands from disparate subscenes with almost every show. …
