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• The Lifespan of a Fact tackles truthiness

  16-11-2023 21:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The complicated backstory of the play The Lifespan of a Fact, now in its local premiere at TimeLine, reads like a series of “begats” out of the book of Genesis.  Ready? Here goes. John D’Agata wrote an essay (not an article, as he stridently insists in the play) for Harper’s in 2003 about the 2002 […]
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• At the upcoming Bonyeon, chef Sangtae Park will have a hundred tastes in his head

  16-11-2023 17:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Thirty-one years ago, the Leo Burnett Company, on behalf of Michigan Avenue’s erstwhile National Live Stock and Meat Board, branded cattle flesh onto the American brain with the slogan, “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.” That’s not a bad run by advertising standards, but it’s nothing compared to “One head with a hundred tastes,” or “일두백미,” […]
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• These Chicago Icons Set to Reopen the Ramona Theater This Fall

  16-11-2023 16:15
  Chicago luminaries Quincy Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Chance the Rapper have joined forces to reopen the historic Ramova Theater in Bridgeport, which was dormant for nearly four decades.
  Under the trio’s ownership, the Ramova is set to reopen in Fall 2023 as a completely reimagined space replete with a 1,500-capacity concert hall, grill, beer garden and brewery.
  “I believe the cultural divides in our communities will always be bridged and uplifted by music and the arts,” Jones t
  
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• Elastic Arts stretches out

  16-11-2023 00:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago arts organization Theatre Y launched in 2006 in Lincoln Square, then moved in February 2023 to 3611 W. Cermak in North Lawndale. “It became really clear,” says artistic director Melissa Lorraine, “as we were starting to open our doors and really trying to communicate that we were here for the community, that music was […]
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