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Gouge Away’s thundering hardcore seriously swings
Gouge Away Sat 2/8 at Cobra Lounge The post Gouge Away’s thundering hardcore seriously swings appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Satin Jackets find connection through shimmering nu disco
Satin Jackets Sat 2/8 at Subterranean The post Satin Jackets find connection through shimmering nu disco appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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070 Shake brings her adventurous ambient pop to Salt Shed
070 Shake Sat 2/8 at Salt Shed The post 070 Shake brings her adventurous ambient pop to Salt Shed appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Julianna Barwick’s choral music still sounds heavenly
Julianna Barwick Wed 2/12 at Salt Shed The post Julianna Barwick’s choral music still sounds heavenly appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Indie home-recording pioneer Linda Smith reunites with old friend Nancy Andrews
Linda Smith & Nancy Andrews Wed 2/12 at the Hideout The post Indie home-recording pioneer Linda Smith reunites with old friend Nancy Andrews appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Publisher’s note: our fight to stay alive continues
Last Sunday I made my way to Logan Square to meet with a former neighbor, eat some tacos (at Taqueria Moran, a weekly staple when I lived down the street), and catch up. Obviously, the only thing on...
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A high-stakes, romantic page-turner
Wuthering Heights, but about figure skaters. It’s hard to remember the last time a new novel had a premise more tailor-made for me than The Favorites by Chicago author Layne Fargo. And it sure lived...
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The artist is present
“Undisclosed Location" through 2/23 at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago The post The artist is present appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Meet the Halsted Athena
Halsted Athena on extended view at Wrightwood 659 The post Meet the Halsted Athena appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Brushes with anguish
Frida . . . A Self Portrait, through 2/23, Writers Theatre The post Brushes with anguish appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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The Heart Sellers is urgent and poignant
The Heart Sellers, through 2/23, Northlight Theatre The post <i>The Heart Sellers</i> is urgent and poignant appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Love among the ruins
Mr. Parker, through 2/28 at Open Space Arts The post Love among the ruins appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Purgatorial ponderings
Lobby Hero, through 3/1, Shattered Globe Theatre at Theater Wit The post Purgatorial ponderings appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Baldwin still wins
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley, through 3/2, TimeLine Theatre at DePaul University Cortelyou Commons The post Baldwin still wins appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Remembering Jack Helbig 1958-2025
The first time I met Jack Helbig in 1991, he was carrying several shopping bags full of books. He had just come from the annual Newberry Library sale to review a show I was directing in Bucktown, and...
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‘What I’m performing is my memories’
I apologize to filmmaker and Northwestern University professor Kyle Henry early in our interview about his latest film, Time Passages, which focuses on his mother, Elaine, and follows the end of her...
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Folk duo Sleeper’s Bell make their full-length debut with Clover
On Friday, February 7, Angel Tapes releases Clover, the debut album from softhearted Chicago folk duo Sleeper’s Bell. Chicago singer-songwriter Blaine Teppema, 26, began using that name (borrowed from...
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Multilayered witnessing
“You Are a Circle Expanded" through 2/14 at Glass Curtain Gallery The post Multilayered witnessing appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Economics gone wild
Steven Levitt isn’t like other economists. At least, that’s what he wants you to think. The 57-year-old finished his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 and burst into...
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Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 18
Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 18. February 6, 2025. The post Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 18 appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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One of them years (already)
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. Egg, all over my face. Because as of this writing, I am ten...
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Drift’s Manic signals a midwest IDM revival
The Consumers Research & Development Label was one of several Chicago-based electronic-music outlets I followed in the early 2000s, before I’d even moved here. Its releases were always high...
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Nothing’s ever what it seems..
By Frsh Waters The post Nothing’s ever what it seems.. appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Whoopity do! Deep Cut Pierogi embodies The Wedding Singer at the next Monday...
Chelsea Pickard has always had a soft spot for the mutants over at table nine. There have been times she’s identified with waitress Julia Sullivan, with puke in her hair and church tongue in her...
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Review: Valiant One
Valiant One in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>Valiant One</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Review: Dog Man
Dog Man in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>Dog Man</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Teenage outfit the Monteras embody shambolic 60s garage rock
I’ve always been transparent about the fact that the Secret History of Chicago Music relies on other people. I get leads from the musicians I write about, from my knowledgeable friends, and from...
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Objects of fascination
So this year has been pretty godawful so far, right? But the brightest theatrical spot last month was, as usual, provided by the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, which filled venues...
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The future according to Yuwen Huang
In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish...
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Editor’s note: staying grounded, not buried
This year’s Groundhog Day celebrations on February 2 provided us with an uneven slate of results. Our local rodent prognosticator, Woodstock Willie, predicted an early spring by reportedly not seeing...
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Review: Love Hurts
Love Hurts in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>Love Hurts</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Keepers of the culture
Since 1948, when Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their land and homes in an event they commemorate every year as the Nakba, their culture and identity has been under threat. In Chicago,...
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Palestinian Canadian pop artist Nemahsis makes joyful songs for dark times
Nemahsis Fri 2/14 at Metro The post Palestinian Canadian pop artist Nemahsis makes joyful songs for dark times appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Dua Saleh explores queer love in a dystopia on I Should Call Them
Dua Saleh Sat 2/15 at Schubas The post Dua Saleh explores queer love in a dystopia on <i>I Should Call Them</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Chicago indie artist Emily Jane Powers builds a band to match her guitar sorcery
Emily Jane Powers Sun 2/16 at Schubas The post Chicago indie artist Emily Jane Powers builds a band to match her guitar sorcery appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Downstate cybergrinders Thotcrime make big pop swings on Connection Anxiety
Thotcrime Sun 2/16 at Beat Kitchen The post Downstate cybergrinders Thotcrime make big pop swings on <i>Connection Anxiety</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Benjamin Booker takes his rambunctious songwriting off-road with Lower
Benjamin Booker Tue 2/18 at Subterranean The post Benjamin Booker takes his rambunctious songwriting off-road with <i>Lower</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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UK funk greats Cymande play a rare Chicago show
Cymande Tue 2/18 at Subterranean The post UK funk greats Cymande play a rare Chicago show appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Xicágo Cevichería’s coastal cuisine converges at the next Monday Night Foodball
One sunny afternoon last August, underneath the Belmont Avenue bridge crossing the river, Odin Metzger chargrilled kosher dogs with onions, relish, and mustard, then plated wonton chips with tuna...
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Fitting in and falling apart
How to be Cool, through 3/1 at the Neo-Futurists The post Fitting in and falling apart appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Don’t worry about a thing
Bob Marley's Three Little Birds, Young People's Theatre of Chicago at Greenhouse Theater Center, through 3/2 The post Don’t worry about a thing appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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The windmills of their minds
Circus Quixote, through 3/30 at Lookingglass Theatre The post The windmills of their minds appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Shepard showdown
Fool for Love, through 3/23 at Steppenwolf Theatre The post Shepard showdown appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Family ties
The Cave, through 3/16 at A Red Orchid Theatre The post Family ties appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Some Pyg
The Pyg Hypothesis, through 3/9 at Theatre Above the Law The post Some Pyg appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Chicago Irish for Palestine help host a benefit for Palestinian children
In the days after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, Chicago freelance journalist and multi-instrumentalist Maureen Dunne wanted to do something to push back against the...
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