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Review: Sorry, Baby
Sorry, Baby in limited release in theaters, followed by wide release The post Review: <i>Sorry, Baby</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Review: F1: The Movie
F1: The Movie in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>F1: The Movie</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Review: Bride Hard
Bride Hard in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>Bride Hard</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Hōjicha latte at Drip Collective
The hōjicha latte is an underhyped drink with the potential to dethrone matcha as the drink of choice among pilates princesses and Gen Zers. Low in caffeine and boasting a smokier, sweeter, and...
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Ghost dog
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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Review: A Photographic Memory
A Photographic Memory screening through Thu 7/3 at the Gene Siskel Film Center The post Review: <i>A Photographic Memory</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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The Chicago House Run debuts with six DJ stations along a 5K route
If you love listening to music while you work out, then Gossip Wolf can’t wait to tell you all about the inaugural Chicago House Run! The 5K race and walk will be soundtracked by Chicago house DJs,...
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28 Years Later is redeemed by its score
28 Years Later in wide release in theaters The post <i>28 Years Later</i> is redeemed by its score appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Southeast Spotlight: Essential Elements
Essential ElementsTue-Sat 11 AM-6 PM, Sat 11 AM-6 PM; 1640 E. 87th Street, 773-978-1200, shopeechicago.com, info@shopeechicago.com, Instagram @essentialelementschicago The evolution of the southeast...
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Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 38
Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 38. June 26, 2025. The post Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 38 appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Why resist Lincoln’s queerness?
The name on everybody’s lips is going to be . . . Lincoln? Perhaps those wiser than I will say they saw it coming. I’ll confess it took me by surprise when, in the past year, a play satirizing the...
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Beach reads
The first day of summer brought with it a stretch of dangerous, record-high temperatures. There’s not much to do in weather like this besides go for a swim, eat paletas, and park it in some...
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LGBTQ+ health centers brace for Trump’s attacks
John Peller’s two decades as an AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) staff member have been marked by highs and lows. In 2010, after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law,...
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The Puta-Pons had too much fun to last
While working on last month’s column commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Secret History of Chicago Music, I unearthed some great memories and stirred up some old ghosts. The Puta-Pons, founded...
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There is no God in the temple
“Living Without the Gods" through 8/16 at South Asia Institute The post There is no God in the temple appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Queering sound
“hiccups" through 7/28 at ACRE Projects The post Queering sound appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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It’s all off the plancha when Mother Prepper returns to the next Monday...
Look up the adjective “scratch” in your favorite online dictionary. Cambridge, Collins, Dictionary.com—they’re all so unsatisfying. It’s always some form of “to start from the beginning haphazardly...
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Editor’s note: Everyone isn’t on vacation yet
Summer heat (the sticky, disgusting, humid, and oppressive kind) reached Chicago as we were putting this issue together, each day of the week more on fire than the last. It’s hard not to have...
View ArticleBest AI Hentai Generators of 2025
AI-generated hentai sits at a provocative crossroads where fantasy meets technology, and desire is woven into each and every line of code. Once a niche corner of anime fandom, hentai has since evolved...
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What’s next for CPS?
June 18 was the last day on the job for Pedro Martinez, the long-embattled chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools. Only a week before he left, the Chicago Board of Education narrowly voted...
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Chicago Record Report: June 2025
Bear Mace, Slaves of the Wolf Formed in 2012, Bear Mace have grown into a formidable force in Chicago metal. Their third full-length builds on their gloriously filthy merger of old-school Florida...
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Drummer Lily Finnegan infuses the new quartet Heat On with her bandmates’...
Heat On Sun 7/6 at Hungry Brain The post Drummer Lily Finnegan infuses the new quartet Heat On with her bandmates’ generational wisdom appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Ryan Weinstein’s solo postpunk project, Coffin Prick, revisits Chicago with...
Coffin Prick Sat 7/5 and Sun 7/6 at Thalia Hall The post Ryan Weinstein’s solo postpunk project, Coffin Prick, revisits Chicago with Cap’n Jazz appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Fred Wesley & the New J.B.’s bring the funk to Pritzker Pavilion
Fred Wesley & the New J.B.’s Mon 7/7 at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park The post Fred Wesley & the New J.B.’s bring the funk to Pritzker Pavilion appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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“Tom Tom” Washington’s South Side Big Band revitalizes midcentury hip
The South Side Big Band Mon 7/7 at the Arts Lawn The post “Tom Tom” Washington’s South Side Big Band revitalizes midcentury hip appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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‘Mike had a way of conveying some gift’
Sometime during the evening of Thursday, May 1, I received a text message from former Reader publisher Tracy Baim telling me that Michael Miner passed away. She said, “Not for public yet but family of...
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Angels in America resonates with our times
Angels in America, through 9/7, Invictus Theatre at Windy City Playhouse The post <i>Angels in America</i> resonates with our times appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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An intimate look at Beijing
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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This woman’s work
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. It’s the summer of Naruse. There was a Mikio Naruse film,...
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Shakshuka bun at Cafe Yaya
The spicy North African dish of tomato poached eggs is one of the world’s greatest hangover remedies. And like its southern Italian cousin—eggs in purgatory—it’s fairly simple to prepare. Even so,...
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Rest is part of the revolution
June has come and gone, and with it, one of the busiest times of year for drag and burlesque performers. Between Pride events and summer kickoff parties, my peers and I have been bustling the past...
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Aria Pedraza launches the Midwest Rave Culture Archive with a Ping Tom Park...
On Saturday, July 5, the brand-new Midwest Rave Culture Archive will host a launch party and fundraiser in Chinatown’s Ping Tom Memorial Park. The daylong event, called Hometown Heroes, features a...
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Review: Jurassic World: Rebirth
Jurassic World: Rebirth in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>Jurassic World: Rebirth</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Review: M3GAN 2.0
M3GAN 2.0 in wide release in theaters The post Review: <i>M3GAN 2.0</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Boundary Waters commit to DIY music as a lifelong pursuit
Andy Brommel feels like he lives a double life. By day, he’s a 43-year-old communications consultant for a national firm working with midsize and large nonprofits. By night, he’s an emo indie rocker...
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Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 39
Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 39. July 3, 2025. The post Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 39 appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Support Illinois students experiencing homelessness or housing instability...
The Illinois Lottery is nationally recognized for its pioneering work with specialty lottery tickets dedicated to raising awareness and funding for specific worthy causes that impact local...
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Jobs, block clubs, investment: How Chicagoans are interrupting violence at...
On a recent Tuesday, dozens of people lined the block waiting their turn at a food pantry that shares a building with the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago (INVC). The long line was a stark reminder...
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Celie’s song
The Color Purple, through 7/27 at Goodman Theatre The post Celie’s song appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Death by Dough debuts pasta al forno at the next Monday Night Foodball
Death by Dough debuts pasta al forno at the next Monday Night Foodball Check out Pizza Dom Vallone’s menu of baked pasta, focaccia, and Neapolitan Chicago thin-crust pizzas at the Reader’s weekly chef...
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Comfort food
Dhaba on Devon Avenue, through 7/27 at Writers Theatre The post Comfort food appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Love’s Labour’s Lost takes over local parks
Love's Labour's Lost, through 8/3, presented by Midsommer Flight at various city parks The post <i>Love’s Labour’s Lost</i> takes over local parks appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Marriage in a box
Tom & Eliza, through 8/16 at TUTA Theatre The post Marriage in a box appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Oxbow offshoot Buñuel flirt with danger on Mansuetude
Buñuel Thu 7/10 at Sleeping Village The post Oxbow offshoot Buñuel flirt with danger on <i>Mansuetude</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Nashville metalcore unit Orthodox blow down their own walls on A Door Left Open
Orthodox Thu 7/10 at Subterranean The post Nashville metalcore unit Orthodox blow down their own walls on <i>A Door Left Open</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Natalie Bergman embraces the moment on the retro-soul-tinged My Home Is Not...
Natalie Bergman Fri 7/11 at the Hideout The post Natalie Bergman embraces the moment on the retro-soul-tinged <i>My Home Is Not in This World</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Chicago singer-songwriter Deonte Baker is ready for the spotlight
Deonte Baker Sun 7/13 at Reggies Music Joint The post Chicago singer-songwriter Deonte Baker is ready for the spotlight appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Greg Obis, new owner of Chicago Mastering Service
This month Greg Obis formally becomes the sole owner of Chicago Mastering Service (CMS), founded in 2007 by Bob Weston and Jason Ward. Weston, best known as the bassist in Shellac, moved to Portugal...
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In the digital sprawl of sex work and self-expression, far from the boardrooms and studios that once dictated who gets seen and how, a different kind of stage has been built, and it puts the power and...
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