- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...-aa-ballet-haven-chicago/When Collaboraction Theatre Company first started back in 1996, it was like a lot of other emerging Chicago performing companies: ensemble-focused, itinerant, and mostly interested in presenting contemporary work. When Anthony Moseley took over as artistic director in 1999, he shepherded their annual Sketchbook Festival of short plays, which became the ...Posted 10 hours 10 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/music/u...-kleztronica-palestinian/When Hannah Mira Friedland was a child, she held dance parties in the back seat of the family car on road trips. As the stereo played the Klezmatics or Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser, Friedland would make her Beanie Babies dance. Friedland is still holding dance partiesnow for humansas a member of new Chicago klezmer ensemble […] The post Reimagining ...Posted 11 hours 16 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/food-dr...paradise-filipino-lounge/Tita Tootsies came to Chris Inumerable in a dream on the massage table. Last January, the founder of East Humbdolt Parks Classick Studios was on an extended family vacation with his brother-in-law, DJ Coleman, a restaurant factotum whod most recently managed the kitchen at Untitled. Theyd been eating and drinking like gods at a swank […] The post Tita ...Posted 12 hours 35 seconds ago - 05/09/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/news-po...gbtq-rights-lambda-legal/When Kevin Jennings was born, he says there was just a single state in the country where being in a same-sex relationship was legal: Illinois. This was before Stonewall. Before Obergefell. Before the AIDS crisis. Before sodomy laws were struck down. Being LGBTQ+ is a mental illness for which you can be put in an […] The post Queer justice appeared first ...Posted 15 hours 48 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...-institute-retrospective/The late Christina Rambergs paintings, drawings, and quilts are showcased in a gorgeous and long-overdue retrospective at the Art Institute, on view until August 11. Rather than explore Rambergs trenchant themes of gender and the body, Id like to focus on her personal archive, pieces of which are displayed here. As an artist who also […] The post For the ...Posted 1 day 13 hours ago - 05/08/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...ment-free-street-theater/In the first scene of Mothering the Movement, seven members of Free Street Theaters youth ensemble riff on what mothers mean to them. On opening night, it was clear that some had their own mothers in the audience, giving special meaning to their tributes. Its a touching, personal way to begin a play about Hazel […] The post Mothering the Movement connects ...Posted 1 day 18 hours ago - 05/08/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...cago-shakespeare-theater/“Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie, if you believe it.” Jason Alexander doesn’t repeat this famous George Costanza line from Seinfeld in Rob Ulin’s morality comedy, Judgment Day, now in a world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. But he may as well. So much else in this play (directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel), which […] The post ...Posted 1 day 18 hours ago - 05/08/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...ss-theatre-above-the-law/Its amazing that this play about old souls moves along at such a brisk pace. Theatre Above the Laws new production of Craig Lucass romantic comedy/drama Prelude to a Kiss is intentionally staged with no props or scenery. Director Tony Lawrys notes say thats to let the audience dine on the sustenance inside this story. […] The post Prelude to a Kiss ...Posted 1 day 18 hours ago - 05/08/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...ago-danztheatre-ensemble/Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and CIRCA-Pintigs collaborative piece, Panther in the Sky, written by Lani T. Montreal and directed by Mignon McPherson Stewart, tackles difficult subject matter. Through its one-hour production, Panther grapples with gun violence, its victims, and the families (specifically the mothers) they leave behind, from the perspective ...Posted 1 day 18 hours ago - 05/08/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...i-pays-homage-with-drill/When photographer Lawrence Agyei saw the South Shore Drill Team for the first time over a decade ago, he was enamored by the entire groupbut knew he wasnt yet ready to capture their electrifying energy. It was early in his photography career and capturing the team and what it represents for Chicago would be a […] The post Lawrence Agyei pays homage with ...Posted 2 days 12 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/music/g...sually-crashing-los-skin/On May 10, CalicoLocos debut album, I Love Myself, finally makes its way from their downloads folder into the world. Over the past two months, these indie rockers have released three singles in anticipation of the album, dropping hints about the territory theyll be coveringpoppy emo grounded in heavy guitar tones. Dani Robles and Zeke […] The post ...Posted 2 days 13 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/news-po...ssing-persons-resolution/Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, in conjunction with a group of majority Black women alders, is calling for the creation of the Mayors Task Force on Missing Women. A resolution, filed with the City Council in late April, recognizes the disproportionate impact the issue of missing persons has had on Black women in Chicago. The resolution […] The post Chicago ...Posted 2 days 14 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...-deghani-goodman-theatre/Hamid Dehghani remembers when he took the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). After the exam, I just walked for miles, the Iranian director says. I felt so light, like I lost 20 pounds. I was so happy. English, now in a local premiere at the Goodman Theatre (in a coproduction with Minneapolis’s […] The post Goodman Theatres English reminds ...Posted 2 days 16 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/music/t...ahey-guitar-xanthe-terra/Few Chicagoans know that a living guitar legend is hidden away in the wilds of Skokie. Charlie Schmidt isnt a blues firebrand or a metal shredder, but everyone who loves fingerstyle guitar should know his name. Schmidt was a friend and sometime student of the late John Fahey, pioneer of the American primitive steel-string acoustic […] The post Charlie ...Posted 2 days 16 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/reader-partners/hookup-apps/Why get off watching a video when you can watch a cam girl live? Here are the best sex cam sites with free and paid options. The post Best Hookup and Casual Dating Apps of 2024 appeared first on Chicago Reader.Posted 2 days 17 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...martinez-cultural-center/Chicago is filled with architecture and design, from the iconic skyline to the art installations of the CTA. Victoria Martinez incorporates these elements and influences in her solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Braiding Histories, part of the Terra Foundation for American Arts Art Design Chicago initiative, which supports events highlighting ...Posted 2 days 19 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/news-po...tspotter-contract-expire/In June 2022, the Illinois State Police inked a $362,000 contract with ShotSpotter. The agency planned to pilot the controversial gunshot detection system along eight miles of the Dan Ryan Expressway, beginning at Canalport, just north of Cermak, in Chicagos Pilsen neighborhood, and stretching south. The prior year had been a particularly violent onefor ...Posted 2 days 20 hours ago - 05/07/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/columns...n-chicago-pulitzer-prize/On May 6, The Pulitzer Prize board announced the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners in various categories of journalism and reporting. Reporters Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute and Sarah Conway of City Bureau, who penned the story What happens when your loved one goes missing?, were awarded with the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. The ...Posted 3 days 10 hours ago - 05/06/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/film/review-the-idea-of-you/As I settled in to watch the third installment of post-2020 B-tier rom-coms starring Anne Hathaway, The Idea of You (following She Came to Me and Locked Down), a nagging sense of familiarity began to stir within me. This story is tethered to August Moon, a boy band only microscopically dissimilar from One Direction. Hayes […] The post Review: The Idea of ...Posted 3 days 10 hours ago - 05/06/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/arts-cu...blackburn-loose-of-earth/At the Christian high school I attendedwhich was affiliated with a local church of the health and wealth gospel flavorplenty of people took literally the Bible verse that reads, By his stripes, we are healed. If you prayed hard enough, the thinking went, God would heal you of physical ailments. If you werent healed, you […] The post Kathleen Dorothy ...Posted 3 days 19 hours ago - 05/06/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/columns...f-notes/weekly-newspaper/Soon, late in the evening on the fifth of June, a delivery driver will drop a fresh bundle of our beautiful newspapers at one of 1,100 locations across the city. This will mark our return, after a long four years, to publishing the Chicago Reader on a weekly basis. Hell, yes. We are returning to […] The post Publishers note: why the Reader is returning ...Posted 5 days 21 hours ago - 05/04/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/reader-...prayer-to-la-linda-nasca/By Amina Kayani The post Settler’s Prayer to La Linda Nasca appeared first on Chicago Reader.Posted 6 days 14 hours ago - 05/03/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/film/review-the-fall-guy/Watching the trailer, one would be forgiven for assuming that The Fall Guy is a vehicle for two of the most popular, attractive actors of our timeEmily Blunt (Oppenheimer) and Ryan Gosling (Barbie)to score an easy win with an action-romance film coming off their stellar Barbenheimer successes. However, what makes this film great is not […] The post ...Posted 6 days 15 hours ago - 05/03/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/film/review-chicken-for-linda/Astounding, vivid, and lively, this animated film directed by Chiara Malta and Sbastien Laudenbach follows a relatively simple story to deep effect. Linda (Mline Leclerc) is a little girl wrongfully accused of selling her mothers ring. After the ring is found, her mother (Clotilde Hesme) asks what she can do to make up for the […] The post Review: Chicken ...Posted 6 days 15 hours ago - 05/03/24
- http://chicagoreader.com/film/review-unfrosted/Jerry Seinfelds directorial debut is not about nothing. It purports to chronicle the 1960s cereal wars between Battle Creek, Michiganbased rivals Kelloggs and Post and the desperate scramble to be the first to create a toastable breakfast pastry. In historical fidelity, it is about as factual as Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which more successfully […] ...Posted 6 days 15 hours ago - 05/03/24
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