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• Review: The Hills

  01-05-2024 22:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Steel promised many immigrants the American dream, but it ultimately left them high and dry, stuck cleaning up the messes made by the mills that prospered and faded away.  “If there’s soot on the windows, there’s food on the table.” This popular saying signified the success of opportunity in the southeast side of Chicago. However, […]
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• Review: I Saw the TV Glow

  01-05-2024 22:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s highly anticipated sophomore feature I Saw the TV Glow is both a tribute to millennium kid culture and a genre-defying trans coming-of-age thriller. On election night 2000, seventh-grader Owen (Justice Smith) connects with ninth-grader Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) after seeing her reading an episode guide for The Pink Opaque. It’s a show about […]
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• Review: Flipside

  01-05-2024 22:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Flipside is a cluttered, largely forgotten New Jersey record store that’s drawn the focus of director Christopher Wilcha in this documentary—sort of. Wilcha worked at Flipside as a teenager in the late 1980s. In middle age, he returns to the place that shaped his iconoclastic values out of a desire to reexamine his own life. […]
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• Review: Challengers

  01-05-2024 22:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Few young stars have had a rise as meteoric and seemingly inevitable as Zendaya. From an Emmy-winning turn as a drug-addicted teen in HBO’s gritty high school drama Euphoria to playing the woman lead in a pair of sci-fi blockbuster epics (and finding time to be a style icon in the meantime), the 27-year-old has […]
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• Ritual and realism

  01-05-2024 22:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  MPAACT resident writer Shepsu Aakhu does something remarkable in this gentle, metaphysical play. He creates a world that successfully blends ritual and realism without succumbing to the weaknesses of either ungrounded otherworldliness or mind-numbing mundanity. Instead, Aakhu gives us a play that reveals the spiritual power in everyday life. Based in part on the Burr […]
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• Goofs, glorious goofs

  01-05-2024 21:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Could you call Chris Dritsas’s and Zach Hacker’s musical comedy a parody? They probably wouldn’t fight you on it, but I might—the gags, send-ups, and compositions here (music by John Love) are just too original and clever to be confused with rote, overt spoofs like Forbidden Broadway. Rather, Little Orphan Boy is a parody in […]
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• A gripping Hamlet

  01-05-2024 21:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A tormented young man is visited by the ghost of his recently slain father, who asks the son to avenge his death at the hands of his own brother—who, to add insult to injury, has taken his job and married his wife (the young man’s mother). The son has friends and enemies but mostly battles […]
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• Edging push their punk to the point of no return

  01-05-2024 21:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Edging tend a joyful garden of chaos amid the decaying concrete of Chicago. On social media, the five-piece band describe themselves as “landscaper punks” because their three founding members connected through landscaping jobs. They also know something about how to prep soil to grow raucous rock ’n’ roll. Their music is a ravenous jungle of […]
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• Middleton of the road

  01-05-2024 21:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Self-indulgent. A blunt word, yet little else feels appropriate for a show that ran three hours and eight minutes—from late start to the end of curtain call—when it is said to be two hours and forty-five minutes. An adaptation of Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women (by Kevin V. Smith and Daiva Bhandari and directed by […]
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• Bo Durham is Mindy Segal’s right-hand man

  01-05-2024 19:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  We’re not trying to say that alongside every great woman is a fabulous gay bestie, but Bo Durham has certainly been just that for his mentor, James Beard Award–winning pastry chef Mindy Segal. Over the past decade, the pair have been together at restaurant Hot Chocolate, Hot Chocolate Bakery at Revival Food Hall, and now […]
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• A new genocide exhibit opens at the Holocaust Museum

  01-05-2024 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This week, as demonstrations charging Israel with genocide in Gaza ramped up on college campuses across the country, the staff of the Illinois Holocaust Museum was preparing for the May 1 opening of a new permanent exhibit they’d been planning for four years. Housed in the museum’s towerlike Hall of Reflection, it would be a […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 15

  01-05-2024 18:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 15. May 2, 2024
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• Anaiet Soul, pianist, performer, and lifelong student

  01-05-2024 17:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Anaiet Soul (she/they)—born Teiana Davis—is a 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist and performer whose main instrument is piano. Primarily jazz-trained, Soul has taken part in Ravinia Jazz Mentor, After School Matters, and Harold Washington College’s jazz programs. Through such opportunities, they’ve rubbed elbows with many people they still regularly gig with today, including Chris Sanchez, Jeremy Joél Warren, […]
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• Evan Mills sets his sights for LA

  01-05-2024 17:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every year, comedy hopefuls swarm into Chicago, hoping to find a place in classes at Second City that might lead to performing at Second City e.t.c. or the mainstage—the legendary launching pad to Saturday Night Live and stardom in other television and film projects. That possibility is embodied by the photos of past Second City […]
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• Supervisor Calvin Jordan Lauds Impressive Outlook For The Fiscally Sound Southland Township

  01-05-2024 15:30
  
  Calvin Jordan, Rich Township Supervisor, was recently joined by the Rich Township Board of Trustees, residents, state officials, local mayors, and other local officials as the Clerk of the Township presented the official fiscal and operational report. 
  “Twenty twenty-three represented our township’s most prosperous and thriving operations and administrative year. We achieved all our goals and targets all while maintaining our fiscal integrity. I am more than confident that
  
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• Ralph Yarl’s Family Suing White Homeowner, HOA Following Shooting

  01-05-2024 14:15
  
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  The family of Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager who was shot in the head after he accidentally went to the wrong house in Kansas City, is suing the homeowner who opened fire and his homeowners association.
  On Monday (April 29), Yarl’s family filed a lawsuit in the circuit court of Clay County, Missouri, alleging “careless and negligent conduct” against shooter Andrew Lester and the Highland Acres Homes Association, Inc, per CNN.
  “At all times relevant, Pl
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for May 1, 2024

  01-05-2024 14:00
  
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• An inside look at Chicago’s 80s art scene

  01-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the 1980’s the Chicago art world was at the height of its authority. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago was mounting the first solo museum exhibition of work by Jeff Koons, hosting performances by pioneering sound artist Laurie Anderson, and bringing groundbreaking exhibitions like “The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985” to the city. […]
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• Out with the old, in with the new

  01-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A month after the years-in-the-making Bring Chicago Home referendum failed to pass during March’s near-record low primary turnout, the City Council voted to approve a $1.25 billion bond issue to fund new and expanded housing and economic development efforts. The bond issue would use the bump in the city’s share of property tax revenue from […]
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