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• Sisters in arms

  10-03-2023 18:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When it comes to Factory Theater, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Shannon O’Neill’s play The Kelly Girls, about two sisters in Northern Ireland, would be close in tone and spirit to the endearing Northern Irish comedy series Derry Girls. After all, Factory has been providing high-spirited pastiches/parodies that both satirize and celebrate the best […]
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• Stockholm trad-metal fiends Century give Chicago a taste of their upcoming The Conquest of Time

  10-03-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Deep in the hell of 2020, the duo Century arose from Stockholm’s metal scene with a four-song self-released demo that was so much fun it could actually give you a brief reprieve from the unrelenting awfulness of that year. MMXX channels the outsize triumphant spirit of such 80s giants as Mercyful Fate and Judas Priest […]
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• These nothings

  10-03-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aria Dean wants you in the hot seat—or cold storage. Her intentions aren’t subtle: you enter her exhibition at the Renaissance Society through aluminum double doors with rubber-trimmed circular windows and step onto a field of black industrial rubber flooring blanketed in nonslip nubbins. Natural light is restricted by a low, hulking perimeter wall, and […]
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• We Weren’t Invited deal Chicago’s punks a handful of wild cards

  10-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Earlier this year I found a live YouTube clip of Chicago punk band We Weren’t Invited made last fall by local music site the Humming Byrd. They’re performing “A Fly on the Wall (Nobody Is Home)” from their EP Flesh Vehicle, Pt. 2, self-released in January. We Weren’t Invited play hardcore, more or less, but […]
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