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• They Are Gutting a Body of Water make a case for wackier shoegaze

  20-03-2023 19:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Philadelphia band They Are Gutting a Body of Water toy with shoegaze like Van Leeuwen screws around with ice cream—their delightfully askew music draws me in, though, while Van Leeuwen’s Hidden Valley Ranch flavor repels me. TAGABOW have made a lot of creative choices that depart from shoegaze’s traditional wall-of-sound warmth. They’ve collaborated with Chicago […]
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• Mr. Self-Promotion

  20-03-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As one of the old guys still standing from the Daley days of yore, I suppose it’s up to me to tell the rest of you a thing or two about Paul Vallas, the man Chicago seems eager to elect as its mayor. Back in the 90s, Vallas was Mayor Daley’s hand-picked boss of the […]
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• ‘How I overcame self-destruction with art’

  20-03-2023 14:00
  
  Zelitra Peterson has tapped into her creativity during a journey in which art, she said, saved her life. (Photo: George W. Tillman Jr./The New Tri-State Defender)
   By Karanja A. Ajanaku, The New Tri-State DefenderAt 42, Zelitra Peterson, weighs about 145 pounds after once weighing over 500 pounds and before art “saved my life.”
  Recently, her story and works helped accent an exhibit of local artists in Orange Mound.
  “It truly has been a blessing to use my God-given talent t
  
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• Unassuming and self-assured

  20-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The late American artist Chuck Close once famously said, “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.” While the first part of that quote may be true, the second part undoubtedly is. It also explains why all of Close’s paintings look pretty much the same: formulaic and uninspired. […]
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