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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 4

  29-11-2023 19:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• The inimitable but intermittent Roctober roars back with a hefty double issue

  29-11-2023 19:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Gossip Wolf checked in a few years back with Reader contributor, Chic-a-Go-Go cofounder, and Promontory talent buyer Jake Austen, he’d just rebooted his wide-ranging, infectiously enthusiastic, and absurdly thorough music and culture zine, Roctober, originally launched more than 30 years ago. Issue 52 arrived in fall 2020 after a seven-year hiatus, but the wait […]
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• Lights, music, Scrooge, and Shostakovich

  29-11-2023 17:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A piercing wind from the north whipped down darkened Dearborn Street, turning noses and fingers to icy lumps and testing the resolve of pedestrians on the opening night of Goodman Theatre’s 46th annual production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol last weekend.   As if current events weren’t already enough to chill the holiday spirit! Dreadful, […]
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• Cadinho Bakery explores the dazzling world of Portuguese pastry

  29-11-2023 16:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alejandra Rivera kept burning the pastéis de nata. The flaky Portuguese egg custard tartlets, known the world over, should have a bit of dark-brown caramelized stippling on top, but the numbers on the old oven in her little flat had worn off, so she kept scorching the iconic pastries. Rivera and her husband were reluctantly […]
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• Visit Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art this holiday season and beyond

  29-11-2023 16:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Established in 1967, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is one of the world’s premier institutions celebrating the work of leading contemporary artists. Located just off Michigan Avenue near the historic Chicago Water Tower and the John Hancock Building, the 220,000-square-foot venue was designed by Berlin architect Josef Paul Klienhues and features three stories of […]
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• Chicago area AFS-USA host families and students make the world more just and peaceful through intercultural exchange

  29-11-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It takes just one person to open your eyes to a new perspective and change your life forever. AFS-USA fosters those sorts of experiences by matching high school exchange students with host families around the world.  It all started in 1915 with the founding of the American Ambulance Field Service, a volunteer ambulance corps that […]
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• Review: The Shift

  29-11-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Brock Heasley’s The Shift is a remarkably incoherent farrago of sci-fi tropes and Christian proselytizing.
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• How Print & Object makes art collecting more accessible

  29-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A pair of denim jeans enhanced by acrylic paint, aerosol spray paint, permanent marker, and elbow grease. A lamp made out of tile, acrylic, and glass. A linen chore coat with flocked vinyl designs. Departing from the confines of traditional gallery settings, Anna Cerniglia and Kate Pollasch have united their decades-long curatorial and art programming […]
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• Desire lines

  29-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of the most enduring legacies of colonialism is found in architecture, often built on the basis of separation. Divide-and-rule policies inform social structures in former colonies like India, where the separation of communities on the basis of class, caste, and creed is linked to the separation of laborers from their points of origin. Forming […]
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