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• Balikbayan Worldwide takes Filipino dance music global

  30-11-2023 20:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Saturday, October 21, more than a hundred people packed a white-walled warehouse in Hermosa to get sweaty to Filipino dance music. It was the launch party for the newest imprint of Feeltrip Records, Balikbayan Worldwide, which focuses on sounds from the southeast Asian diaspora. To many of the partiers, the event was just an […]
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• Ceasefire Haiku

  30-11-2023 19:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Faisal Mohyuddin
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• Izzi Vasquez, music-adjacent multimedia artist

  30-11-2023 19:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Izzi Vasquez is a multimedia artist who has helped some of Chicago’s most celebrated musicians with the visuals for their visions. Vasquez has created animations and designed album packaging for the likes of Kaina, Sen Morimoto, Nnamdï, and Kara Jackson. In their art, Vasquez gives new form to the lessons they learned from their grandmother, […]
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• Loona Dae opens up a new world of psychedelic R&B

  30-11-2023 18:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “When I started skating, I was definitely in a creative rut, and I needed to push myself in a way,” says Chicago R&B singer Loona Dae. “It’s scary to fall, but I found a lot of refuge in skating because it’s just you and the skateboard. It taught me to trust myself more and rewired […]
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• Paramount’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory adds a touch of bitter to the sweet

  30-11-2023 18:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Whether you’re waiting anxiously to see Timothée Chalamet in Wonka (the musical prequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), or are rolling your eyes in anticipatory disgust (look, after the 2005 Johnny Depp cinematic debacle, I don’t blame you!), Paramount Theatre’s current staging of the 2013 musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory should […]
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• Public and private politics in Vietnamese art

  30-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Subtly evoked or explicitly referenced, reclaiming individual narrative is a major subject for the Vietnamese artists whose work is on view in dual exhibitions at the John David Mooney Foundation: “A Village Before Us” and the Albert I. Goodman Collection of Vietnamese Art. The Goodman collection is one of the most complete collections of Vietnamese […]
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• The Reader’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide

  30-11-2023 07:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  1 Chicago stepping lessons from award-winning south sider Shaun Ballentine of Effortless Stepping. —Salem Collo-Julin Open group lessons Wednesdays at 7 PM, Effortless Stepping Studio, 1850 E. 79th. $20 per person, 21+ only. For private lesson rates or information about having Ballentine do a stepping class at your event, message through Instagram or Facebook.  2 […]
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