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• Dublin songs

  02-03-2023 23:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Romantic regret and stubborn optimism seem as intertwined in the national character of Ireland as a Saint Brigid’s cross, and those qualities suffuse Once, the 2012 musical adapted by Irish playwright Enda Walsh from John Carney’s original 2007 screenplay of the same title. That this Irish tale, which is not quite a love story but […]
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• one in two provocatively reflects on a lingering epidemic

  02-03-2023 23:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Even as the audience find their seats before the start of PrideArts’s new production one in two, they’ll get a sense that their relationship with the actors for the next 90 minutes will be an unusual one. The actors are already onstage, stretching and otherwise preparing, as the audience sits down. Following the performance, there […]
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• Magical storytelling for Pisces season

  02-03-2023 23:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago: it’s Pisces season. In case you are not a zodiac crackerjack like moi, Pisces is a water sign, typically represented by two fish swimming in counter directions, which is said to symbolize the counterbalance of fantasy and reality. In the magical world of the zodiac, water signs represent depth, emotion, and psychics.  Seeing Physician […]
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• Quantum romance

  02-03-2023 22:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Simon Stephens’s play Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle is set up as a classic story of culture clash: a quirky, talkative woman from New Jersey strikes up a conversation with a reserved Londoner in a train station, ignoring all social cues that he’d rather be left alone. But when she arrives at his butcher shop a […]
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• Hold the fireworks

  02-03-2023 22:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One can imagine what inspired directors Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page to rework this 1960s musical about the Continental Congress. There’s the attraction of doing a piece about the nation’s unification during a period of division, not to mention the appeal of presenting the virtually all-male show with an all-female and nonbinary cast of […]
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• Here he is, baby

  02-03-2023 22:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Artists Lounge Live, started by the husband-and-wife team of Michael and Angela Ingersoll, specializes in presenting tribute shows to various musical legends. (Michael Ingersoll was in the original tour of the Four Seasons-inspired bio-musical Jersey Boys, and Angela has played Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow.) Now they’ve brought in John-Mark McGaha, an Alabama-born […]
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• Review: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

  02-03-2023 21:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A Winnie the Pooh horror film just seemed like it had the potential to be more pointedly cruel. Instead, we got a weirdly anonymous ursine rather than the best bloody bear in the world.
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• Review: Return to Seoul

  02-03-2023 21:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Heady, searing, strident, and poignant, this film follows Freddie (Park Ji-min), a French Korean adoptee who finds herself unexpectedly in Seoul. Is she there to find her adoptive family? Does Freddie want a reunion, confrontational, saccharine, or otherwise?
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• Review: Jesus Revolution

  02-03-2023 21:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At first glance, Jesus Revolution is an inspiring, heartwarming watch, but it gives a seamlessly joyful look at a movement with a harmful past, in a way that feels like a slap in the face in the year of our Lord 2023.
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• Review: Godland

  02-03-2023 21:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The supposed premise of this film—that it’s inspired by the discovery of wet-plate photographs taken by a Danish priest in the late 19th century, as stated in a title card toward the beginning—is itself fictional, a prompt used by Icelandic writer-director Hlynur Pálmason to flesh out the larger narrative.The post Review: Godland appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• Review: Cocaine Bear

  02-03-2023 21:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A smuggler dumps duffle bags full of cocaine into a forest before plunging to his death, and a 150-pound bear gets into the drug packets and dies. Great plot for a comedy, right?
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• Review: Of An Age

  02-03-2023 21:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Of An Age opens with a sequence worthy of entry into The Cinema of Stress library (think Uncut Gems or Dog Day Afternoon), but in 1999 and with a gay bildungsroman.
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• Review: Emily

  02-03-2023 20:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On the one hand, Emily does not do justice to the fiery, iconoclastic genius behind Wuthering Heights, but on the other hand, its pleasures deserve acknowledgment.
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• Review: Children of the Corn

  02-03-2023 19:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Kurt Wimmer’s new reboot, a demon in the corn once again possesses the children of a rural town.
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• Togetherness reevaluated

  02-03-2023 18:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago artists Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger have been doing everything together for decades—literally. The longtime partners in art and in life have been working with traditional American craft techniques—silhouette cutting, sewing, crocheting, and bookmaking—but they’re perhaps best known for their performative works: Untitled (Pink Tube), an ongoing nontheatrical performance they started 20 years ago […]
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• Chicago metal explorers Arriver get personal on Azimuth

  02-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Genre-bending Chicago metal quartet Arriver formed in 2006 with a lineup that had plenty of experience with a varied tonal palette: Dan Sullivan and Rob Sullivan contributed to Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., while Dan McAdam and Joe Kaplan had played in Viza-Noir. The group are known for concept albums with historical subjects; 2012’s […]
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• The Tunney-Vallas Alliance

  02-03-2023 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I realize we’re in the silly season of the mayoral race, as candidates bombard us with propaganda we know we shouldn’t believe. But the recent commercial in which Alderperson Tom Tunney praises mayoral candidate Paul Vallas for being on the front lines in the fights for LGBTQ+ and abortion rights is particularly misleading even by […]
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• Winners badge request form

  02-03-2023 03:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS WELCOMES CPS STUDENTS TO THE 2023 SKILLED TRADES CAREER FAIR

  02-03-2023 02:40
  
  Thousands of CPS students explore careers in architecture, STEM, engineering, construction trades, and related fields 
  CHICAGO — Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Pedro Martinez launched a three-day, in-person Skilled Trades Career Fair today to give CPS students an up-close look at postsecondary opportunities within the skilled trades. An anticipated 3,000 CPS middle school and high school students will have the opportunity to network and learn from hu
  
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• COMMISSIONER BRANDON JOHNSON STATEMENT ON RESIGNATION OF CPD SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN

  02-03-2023 02:23
  
  CHICAGO – Cook County Commissioner and candidate for Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson issued the following statement today on the resignation of Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown: 
  “The next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department must be as fully committed to the health and safety of all Chicagoans as I am, and to immediately meeting all requirements of the federal consent decree while addressing the root causes of crime. As mayor, my preferenc
  
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• Phillip Randolph Porter Museum Foundation’s 28th Annual Gentle Warrior Awards Gala

  02-03-2023 02:16
  
  On Saturday February 25th some of Chicago’s finest gathered to celebrate at A. Phillip Randolph Porter Museum Foundation’s 28th Annual Gentle Warrior Awards Gala. This event honors those within our communities that strengthen others, display leadership and trail-blaze legacies. As during the time A. Phillip Randolph did with founding The Brotherhood of Sleeping Porters, this years Honorees are creating their own historic narratives. 2023 Gentle Warrior Award Honorees are:
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• It’s all Indigenous (except for the fry bread) with Ketapanen Kitchen at the next Monday Night Foodball

  02-03-2023 00:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There are more than 34,000 Native Americans living in Chicago according to the 2020 census—and that’s probably an undercount. So who’s cooking at all the weddings, funerals, feasts, ceremonies, and powwows? That would be Jessica Walks First, the omnipresent chef behind Ketapanen Kitchen. Walks First was born on the Menominee Indian Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin, […]
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