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Chicago-France improvised-music exchange the Bridge taps into the city’s...
ConstelNation Multiple dates from Fri 10/30—Sun 11/5 at various locations The post Chicago-France improvised-music exchange the Bridge taps into the city’s diverse venues for its final iteration...
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Indulge in pawpaw season
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Nosferatu (1922) screens in Chicago with a newly composed score by Circuit...
When Haley Fohr began working on a score for Nosferatu (1922) more than a year ago, she was thinking about parasitic love. All-consuming love. Identity-surrendering love. Fohr, better known as her...
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Review: Naza
Naza in limited release in theaters The post Review: <i>Naza</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Don Giovanni returns to the Lyric
Don Giovanni, through 11/1 at Lyric Opera House The post <i>Don Giovanni</i> returns to the Lyric appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Yido relaunches Chicago’s craft makgeolli movement
Peter Chung is labeling bottles of his first official batch of Yido makgeolli. He quickly determines it takes five and a half turns of the crank on the machine to properly attach the adhesives. He’s...
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An oral history of Chicago nightlife’s most beloved visitor
No one has been to as many Chicago shows this century as Claudio Velez. For decades, he visited between 20 and 50 bars and venues each night (his own estimates have varied), mostly on the northwest...
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Chicago champion of storefront theater passes away at 63
I first saw Wm. Bullion (as he was known professionally) onstage in 2005. He was playing Polonius in the now-gone Building Stage’s inaugural production of Hamlet. As I wrote in my review for the...
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V.V. Lightbody poured sweat into a serene new album
Vivian McConnell hoped that making her third V.V. Lightbody album, Period Piece, would be more carefree than it was. “I had a migraine for, like, a year from being so stressed out about the record,”...
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Alien worlds
“The Secondaries" through 10/25 at Ignition Project Space The post Alien worlds appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Review: Verity
Verity in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>Verity</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Women and children first
“Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism" through 1/3/27 at the Art Institute of Chicago The post Women and children first appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Review: The History of Concrete
The History of Concrete in limited release in theaters The post Review: <i>The History of Concrete</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Review: Never After Dark
Never After Dark in limited release in theaters The post Review: <i>Never After Dark</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Taper’s Choice are the perfect gateway drug for the jam-band curious
Taper's Choice Fri 10/30 at Garcia's The post Taper’s Choice are the perfect gateway drug for the jam-band curious appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Art-rockers Sweeping Promises step up their home-studio game on You Say I...
Sweeping Promises Fri 10/30 at Empty Bottle The post Art-rockers Sweeping Promises step up their home-studio game on You Say I Romanticize appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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A plethora of places
The Cinema Scrapbook places film screenings in conversation with other local creative happenings, illuminating Chicago’s rich cultural connectivity. Spooky season is quite special for unearthing...
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TV on the cinema
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. I think one of my earliest memories is of my parents...
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Detroit ʼ67 tackles grief, love, and legacy in a Black family
Detroit ʼ67, Pulse Theatre Chicago at eta Creative Arts Foundation The post <i>Detroit ʼ67</i> tackles grief, love, and legacy in a Black family appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Red Bike gives a child’s-eye view of late-stage capitalism
Red Bike, Backyard Theatre Company at Berger Park Cultural Center Coach House The post <i>Red Bike</i> gives a child’s-eye view of late-stage capitalism appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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