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• R. Brent Decker, Racetraitor bassist and anti-violence worker

  15-11-2023 20:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  R. Brent Decker plays bass in Racetraitor and works as chief program officer for Cure Violence Global, a Chicago-based nonprofit that takes a public health approach to reducing violence. As a college student in the mid-90s, Decker cofounded Chicago hardcore band Racetraitor with childhood friends from the north suburbs. The group quickly attracted a passionate […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 3

  15-11-2023 19:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 3. November 16, 2023The post Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 3 appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• Definition Theatre makes plans for a new home while building community connections

  15-11-2023 18:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Stages of Survival is an occasional series focusing on Chicago theater companies, highlighting their histories and how they’re surviving—and even thriving—in a landscape that’s become decidedly more challenging since the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown. Last month’s report from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and SMU DataArts, “Navigating Recovery: Arts and Culture Financial […]
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• Wise Guys: The First Christmas Story turns the journey of the Magi into a buddy adventure

  15-11-2023 18:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Leave it to Factory Theater to come up with a twist on the story of the Magi that’s smart-assed and sincere at the same time. In Chase Wheaton-Werle’s Wise Guys: The First Christmas Story, now in its world premiere under Becca Holloway’s direction, Melchior (Josh Razavi), Balthazar (Michael Jones), and Gaspar (Shail Modi) have to […]
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• Court’s The Lion in Winter slices through the surface

  15-11-2023 17:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The arch dialogue in James Goldman’s 1966 drama The Lion in Winter (turned into a 1968 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole) about the eventful Christmas of 1183 at the English court hasn’t aged well—it calls too much attention to its own cleverness while often failing to advance either the plot or our understanding […]
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• Commedia Divina: It’s Worse Than That is Dante for the age of MAGA

  15-11-2023 16:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s Note: Due to illness in the cast, the remainder of performances for this show have been canceled. Please contact the company for information on refunds. Feel like you’ve been living in hell the past several years? The Conspirators understand. In their latest offering, Commedia Divina: It’s Worse Than That, writer Sid Feldman concocts a […]
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• Support Illinois Veterans with your purchase of the Winter Riches Instant Ticket from the Illinois Lottery

  15-11-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2006, the Illinois Lottery launched the first Instant Lottery ticket in the country that designated 100 percent of its profits toward organizations that support Veterans in Illinois. Working with the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs (IDVA), the Illinois Lottery has raised over $21 million to fund the Veterans’ Cash program, which has awarded grants […]
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• Beetlejuice is a demonic good time

  15-11-2023 15:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Thirty-five years after its film debut, the classic Tim Burton Halloween comedy Beetlejuice has been reimagined, first set loose like a demon as a 2019 Broadway musical (score by Eddie Perfect, book by Scott Brown and Anthony King, and directed by Alex Timbers), and now playing at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. My inner goth jumped at […]
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• A multisensory sculpture of life and death

  15-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with artists about their project Untidy Objects, on view outdoors at adjacent to the Logan Center for the Arts. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Just south of Hyde Park’s Logan Center for the Arts, an acre of land hosts Untidy Objects, a dynamic multispecies […]
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