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• Behold, a brand-new pumpkin spice-flavored Monday Night Foodball schedule

  06-09-2023 22:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I told you it was coming. The world is burning, but there’s plenty of patio time left in the year. I have here the eight chefs who are going to fill it—and feed you—at Ludlow Liquors, the home base of Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up—now in its third year! Kicking it off […]
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• Cooking With Soul

  06-09-2023 20:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Near the end of Black Ensemble Theater’s (BET) superb new revue A Taste of Soul, co-emcee Qiana McNary mentions that the show’s creators hope to leave the audience both “full and hungry at the same time.” The show’s central framing device—a television cooking program veering into musical numbers, concurrently leading the audience through the history […]
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• Rose’s show

  06-09-2023 20:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The titular showgirl in Gypsy isn’t necessarily Gypsy Rose Lee, the reluctant vaudeville child star who—per the “musical fable” from Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Jule Styne (score) and Arthur Laurents (book)—blossoms into an internationally renowned burlesque artist. In the Marriott Theatre’s sturdy production, the stage belongs to Mama Rose (Lucia Spina), the so-called stage mother raised […]
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• Between the lines

  06-09-2023 20:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The title of writer/director Mark Pracht’s second installment to his Four-Color Trilogy, a series about the comic books publishing industry, could easily be mistaken for one of the real-world pre-Code, sultry cheesecake books Pracht’s play centers on. But it’s actually a reference to the markedly un-horny Seduction of the Innocent, German American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s […]
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• Trauma and resilience

  06-09-2023 20:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago native Inda Craig-Galván takes theatergoers on a heart-to-heart journey in A Hit Dog Will Holler, a two-hander that underlines the trauma and resilience experienced by Black women—often called upon to be at the forefront of social movements—living in America. Directed by Myesha-Tiara, Artemisia Theatre’s production zooms in on the unlikely friendship between Gina (Alexandria […]
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• Moon at the Bottom of the Ocean explores artistic jealousy and romantic need

  06-09-2023 19:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s beginning to feel like we’re having a mini festival this year of plays about the romantic and professional conflicts facing artist (or academic) couples, between First Floor’s Hate Fuck by Rehana Lew Mirza and Steppenwolf’s Another Marriage by Kate Arrington.  Bryn Magnus’s latest comedy, Moon at the Bottom of the Ocean, perhaps completes the […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 24

  06-09-2023 18:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 23. August 24, 2023
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• Local food books you might have missed—and some you shouldn’t

  06-09-2023 18:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Years ago, at the height of the craze, I bought an Instant Pot. Of course I had to have the largest size possible—the eight-quart. If I’d read any reviews, I might have learned that this hissing countertop monster had a few technical liabilities that the smaller ones didn’t. I was particularly annoyed that I couldn’t […]
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• DJ Deeon brought the Low End to the world

  06-09-2023 17:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the mid- and late 1980s, Deeon Boyd built a reputation as one of the best DJs in Chicago’s Low End. He lived in Stateway Gardens in Bronzeville, and he’d spin records in the projects. “He liked playing music for people,” says Tranz, a hip-hop producer from the Low End. “He would set up outside […]
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• Jazz pianist Pat Leary celebrates a sleek, bustling electric trio album

  06-09-2023 16:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pianist Pat Leary has played in so many local ensembles it’d be easy to lose count. These days he tickles the ivories in Latin R&B band Partywatcher and indie country outfit Thompson Springs, accompanies jazz singer Livia Gazzolo, and improvises in free-jazz quartet Heuristic with saxophonist and flutist Eric Novak, bassist Jeff Wheaton, and drummer […]
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• A dramatic top ten for fall

  06-09-2023 16:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since opening in March 2023, Andersonville’s Understudy bookstore and cafe has stayed busy by offering a robust selection of theater-related titles, coffee, pastries, and public programming. With the fall theater season about to kick into high gear, we asked the staff what they’ve been reading lately. The UnderstudyMon-Thu 7 AM-6 PM, Fri-Sun 7 AM-7 PM, […]
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• Bill Pinkney, First Black Person to Sail the Globe Solo, Dies at 87

  06-09-2023 16:00
  
  William D. “Bill” Pinkney, the Southside Chicago native who had become the first Black sailor to circumnavigate the globe solo via the southern route, passed away recently at an Atlanta hospital. He was 87.
  Pinkney, who lived in Puerto Rico, was in Atlanta working on a project with National Geographic and staying with a friend when he fell down a flight of steps and suffered a “catastrophic” injury, according to his ex-wife and dear friend Ina Pinkney. 
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• Two of the planet’s heaviest trios team up for the Twins of Evil tour

  06-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Twins of Evil tour brings together two of the heaviest trios on the planet: Japanese shape-shifters Boris, whose nearly four dozen studio releases cover practically every heavy subgenre imaginable, and American sludge pioneers the Melvins, who are celebrating their 40th anniversary. Each group will play an iconic album from front to back. Boris will […]
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• Rising Chicago songwriter Khaliyah X makes herself known on ‘What’s My Name’

  06-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Khaliyah X has had a big year. The local R&B singer-songwriter has performed at Navy Pier and a Chicago Sky game, earned a spot in the spring-summer “Chicago Artists to Watch” list compiled by local digital publication These Days, and made a cameo in a Wilson Basketball commercial. This weekend she’ll join scenemates such as […]
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• Precocious Neophyte’s home-recorded dream pop sounds bigger than the sky

  06-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By 2021, I knew every dusty corner of my two-bedroom apartment so well—and my world during that stage of the pandemic contained so little else—that my everyday reality felt suffocating and small. That year, South Korean singer-songwriter Jeehye Ham started working on her debut album as Precocious Neophyte in her Chicago apartment, but her home-recorded […]
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• ‘Because we are black, we are making black music’

  06-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Out of their place. Out of their depth. Out of their minds. Composer and researcher George Lewis has lost track of the times he’s heard those tropes lobbed, implicitly or explicitly, at Black composers of classical music. These artists, he argues, too often slip through the cracks in academic and cultural discourse: They’re shunted to […]
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• Bally’s Casino at Medinah Temple Could Open This Weekend

  06-09-2023 15:00
  
  Chicago’s first and only casino could open as soon as this Saturday, pending approval by the Illinois Gaming Board. Bally’s is slated to open a temporary casino in one of the city’s most iconic and historic buildings, the Medinah Temple. 
  “We have to show our regulators that we are ready, as ready as we can be,” said Ameet Patel, Bally’s Corporation senior vice president and regional general manager.
  On Tuesday, media members were granted a sneak peek ins
  
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• Understanding Long COVID Through Research

  06-09-2023 14:00
  
  (NewsUSA) – In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, strange symptoms began to surface.
  After becoming infected with COVID-19, people were reporting lingering health problems. Extreme fatigue, loss of taste and smell, and “brain fog,” were among some of the symptoms people reported.
  Today, more than 200 symptoms affecting the entire body are associated with what is called Long COVID. Long COVID describes symptoms people experience weeks, months, or even years after a COVID i
  
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• ‘Parole presupposes that change—a correction—is possible.’

  06-09-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia, opened its doors in 1829. Often considered the world’s first true penitentiary, its hallmark six-spoked, wheel-shaped design radiates outward from a central tower, where guards could keep watch over some 500 prisoners. The prison’s creators believed that, through penitence and solitude (now widely considered a form of torture), people would […]
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Sept. 6

  06-09-2023 14:00
  
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• The Carr Report: Notorious 10 Money Commandments

  06-09-2023 13:00
  
  I was having a nostalgic moment driving through my childhood neighborhood bumping to some Notorious B.I.G. The song “10 crack commandments” started playing.  When I listen to music, most times I’m grooving to the beat.  I’m not necessarily listening to the lyrics.  But on this day, I listened to the words.  In this song, Biggie details his step by step manual on how to successfully navigate through the drug world. He gives 10 commandments on how you ca
  
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• 9 Best Sugar Daddy Websites For Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies To Meet (2023)

  06-09-2023 08:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A sugar daddy is always looking for his sugar baby, and vice versa. These are the top sites where sugar daddies and babies connect for real sugar relationships.
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