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• Discover Chicago’s layered history

  28-11-2023 23:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Early one morning I stood on what might be the last undeveloped piece of land in the Loop’s radius. The site of the forthcoming DuSable Park is, currently, a soil mound bursting with prairie life located where the Chicago River punctures Lake Michigan’s mouth. This, says architect Ryan Gann, who is working with Ross Barney […]
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• Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol returns to Writers Theatre

  28-11-2023 23:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol (devised and directed by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter) is a charming remix of an old classic, but with added layers for extra warmth this time of year. Imagine the timeless tale of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol with a modern upgrade, boasting a new […]
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• Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy brings a footnote of World War II center stage

  28-11-2023 21:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Princess. Musician. Writer. Spy. The short description of all of Noor Inayat Khan’s identities during her brief lifetime reads like the title of a John le Carré novel. Yet despite the fact that her work as an undercover radio operator and liaison between the French resistance and British intelligence during World War II was an […]
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• The moment met the CTA

  28-11-2023 19:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) first announced its Meeting the Moment action plan last year, workforce and service delivery issues were at the forefront. Officials pointed to the “Great Resignation” as creating an unusually competitive job market, leading to high attrition rates among bus and rail operators. Mass resignations during the pandemic, along with […]
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• There’s still time to catch up with the Joy Poppers

  28-11-2023 18:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When I started the Secret History of Chicago Music in 2005, I had a rule: no artists from the 1990s. Not enough time had passed, I figured, for them to be forgotten. It’s been 18 years, though, and the local scene is full of people who don’t remember the 90s—or who weren’t even born then. […]
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• Will Miller’s Resavoir makes a serene return with a new self-titled album

  28-11-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Resavoir, the experimental jazz project of Chicago multi-instrumentalist and producer Will Miller, returned this month with a new self-titled album on local label International Anthem. As with Resavoir’s 2019 debut, Miller conceived and largely produced the material alone in his home, and the recordings feature contributions from friends and fellow Chicago musicians—among them guitarist and […]
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• Reflection, resilience, and now remembrance in Crossing Borders Music’s focus on Arab string quartets

  28-11-2023 14:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2020, Toronto-based Palestinian-Jordanian composer Shireen Abu Khader founded Dozan World—an offshoot of Dozan wa Awtar Music Establishment, the celebrated choir she established in 2002—as a hub for Levantine composers to share their music. Local chamber-music nonprofit Crossing Borders Music, which specializes in Western classical works by non-Western composers, most recently visited the Dozan catalog […]
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• Bar Italia create a stir with low-key minimalist indie pop

  28-11-2023 14:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  London trio Bar Italia formed in 2019, and though the world of live music screeched to a halt the following year, they powered through by writing and recording at full steam. They released their studio debut, Quarrel, in September 2020, showcasing an understated sound that joined lo-fi postpunk with indie-pop experimentation redolent of the 80s […]
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• Hometown hero Mavis Staples provides inspiration at Cahn Auditorium

  28-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mavis Staples is more rock ’n’ roll than any of us. Who else declined a marriage proposal from Bob Dylan in the early 60s because she felt she was too young to be tied down? Who else got divorced less than a year after getting hitched in 1964 because she refused to quit singing at […]
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