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• Stage Door, but make it porn

  29-05-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Right after the curtain call at First Floor Theater’s world premiere of Pro-Am, a colleague sitting behind me leaned over and asked, “Have you ever seen Stage Door?” Despite the fact that Brynne Frauenhoffer’s play (developed originally with Chicago’s now-defunct Sideshow Theatre) takes place in the contemporary Miami porn industry and the 1937 film (adapted […]
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• Dr. Yvonne Welbon is a crucial storyteller

  29-05-2024 22:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dr. Yvonne Welbon is a jill-of-all-trades. Her work has been screened by PBS, the Berlin Film Festival, BET, Bravo, and the Sundance Film Festival, to name a few. She’s directed nine films and produced 15. Her documentary Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 won ten awards, one of which was the GLAAD Media […]
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• Red Summer family drama

  29-05-2024 22:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Joshua Allen’s third installment in his Chicago-set “Grand Boulevard Trilogy” (after The Last Pair of Earlies, which alternated between 1921 and 1938, and October Storm, set in 1960) takes place during the “Red Summer” riots of 1919. Though we hear the sounds of unrest and violence outside, the real conflict unfolds inside the south-side house […]
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• The Danish Play never warms up

  29-05-2024 22:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Based on the life experiences of Sonny Mills’s great-aunt, Agnete Ottosen, in Denmark before, during, and after the Nazi occupation, The Danish Play tries to pack way too much into its nearly two-and-a-half hours of stage time. You could write an interesting play about any one period in Ottosen’s complex life—her experiences in the Danish […]
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• Food apartheid: the erasure of Black health in Englewood

  29-05-2024 22:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Media have long and relentlessly crafted a certain narrative about Englewood: “3 shot, 1 fatally, outside Englewood store“; “1 killed, 2 hurt in shooting outside Englewood store“; “Man dies after being shot 20 times in Englewood.” But in the heart of the neighborhood, near the intersection of 63rd and Morgan, a different story is growing: […]
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• The Singularity Play tackles AI

  29-05-2024 21:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Everything about Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play, now in a world premiere at Jackalope Theatre (directed by Georgette Verdin) should feel timely and tense. It’s about the effects of AI on art, relationships, and life, after all—what could be more ripped-from-the-headlines than that? But something about Stull’s story left me cold, and I think it […]
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• Kitcha fitfit (chechebsa) at Mella Cafe

  29-05-2024 21:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. Most people unfamiliar with Ethiopian cuisine probably first approach it for dinner, as I did: sour, spongy injera on a round platter […]
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• Theatrical apocalypse

  29-05-2024 21:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. A new week, another death knell for theatrical exhibition. David Leitch’s The Fall Guy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt (ironically, costars in two of last year’s biggest commercial hits), opened […]
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• Review: The Strangers: Chapter 1

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s been nothing short of a stellar year for horror so far. Whether you’re into nunsploitation, 90s throwbacks, or genre-bending horror comedies, films like Lisa Frankenstein, The First Omen, Immaculate, and Abigail have put 2024 on the map. We’re lucky, then, that the year has already delivered so many strong genre entries, because The Strangers: […]
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• Review: The Dead Don’t Hurt

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Viggo Mortensen is onto something special with his sophomore directorial feature. A somber romance wearing the clothes of an old-school western, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a lyrical and quiet epic that tests and proves Mortensen’s abilities as a filmmaker (a redemption arc from his debut, Falling). It’s a smoldering fable that is not designed […]
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• Review: Stopmotion

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Robert Morgan’s gleefully grotesque Stopmotion is a celebration of creativity bloodily disguised as a warning about creative obsession. Ella Blake (the wonderful Aisling Franciosi) is the daughter of a famous stop-motion animator (Stella Gonet) and desperately wants to live up to—and break away from—her domineering mother. But when mom is hospitalized and Ella starts to […]
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• Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Australian filmmaker George Miller reinvigorated his Mad Max series with Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015, it felt like lightning in a bottle, despite having been struck from the already existing, petrol-fueled storm cloud that were his earlier three entries from the late 70s to mid 80s. Compared to other contemporary big-budget movies of […]
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• Guest Editorial: Ed Dwight’s flight at last!

  29-05-2024 20:09
  
  Former NASA astronaut Ed Dwight poses for a portrait to promote the National Geographic documentary film “The Space Race” during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
   
  On the Detroit riverfront, there’s a statue of people frozen in time: they are in flight from slavery, waiting to cross the river to Canada.
   
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• Chicago Record Report: May 2024

  29-05-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Deep Tunnel Project, Deep Tunnel Project Formed in 2021, Deep Tunnel Project are a four-piece composed of veteran local rockers from Tar, Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, the Bomb, Dead Ending, and too many others to name. They describe their self-titled debut album as “a Chicago record,” but its wiry, understated sound, thick riffs, and straightforward lyrics […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 17

  29-05-2024 18:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 17. May 30, 2024
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• Ghostlight, the movie

  29-05-2024 17:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The trailer for Ghostlight, the new film from the Chicago team of Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, includes a scene in which a horrified adolescent discovers her father in passionate embrace with a woman who is not his wife.   “Asshole,” she screams at him, wielding her phone like a weapon, “Say hi to Mom, cheater!” […]
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• Garters upends the norms of fantasy fiction

  29-05-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Though set within the realm of fantasy, Otherworld Theatre’s upcoming Garters: A Queer Immersive Romantasy Play is a play centering friendship, says lead performer Kira Nutter.  “I think it boils down to two long-lost friends trying to figure out who they are, either to each other, or to the Court, or to themselves,” they explain. […]
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• Emily Rach Beisel, improviser and Pleiades Series founder

  29-05-2024 16:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Emily Rach Beisel became enamored with improvisation as a student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and then moved to Chicago to attend graduate school at Northwestern and explore the city’s vast music community.  The woodwind specialist maintains a busy schedule, working in a variety of settings, including as an educator, theater musician, curator, composer, […]
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• Guitarist and oud master Rami Gabriel releases a multifaceted solo debut

  29-05-2024 16:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago multi-instrumentalist Rami Gabriel began dabbling in home recording as a teenager in the 1990s, and last week he finally put out his first solo album, the Sooper Records release That’s What I Been Sayin’. Playing in a variety of contexts, he’s already amassed a heady, eclectic catalog that traverses styles and disciplines. For his […]
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• Meet Nwabueze Phil-Ebosie: 2024 Chicago Defender Men of Excellence Honoree

  29-05-2024 16:00
  In his nearly two-decade tenure at ComEd, Nwabueze Phil-Ebosie, also known as Eze, has become a cornerstone of innovation and leadership in the field of electrical engineering. 
  As the current Director of Engineering, Phil-Ebosie oversees the modernization of the electric grid, ensuring that the people of Northern Illinois receive reliable electric service. His journey at ComEd has been marked by a series of leadership and technical roles, each contributing to the company’s mission of
  
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• Street corner activations with SpaceShift

  29-05-2024 15:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with Asad Ali Jafri, Melissa Munira Jafri, and Tulika Ladsariya of the nine-person artist collective SpaceShift about its latest projects. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. The artist collective SpaceShift’s first project began when Asad Ali Jafri and Melissa Munira Jafri passed empty storefronts in the […]
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• 5-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot on Chicago’s West Side

  29-05-2024 14:45
  
  Reign Ware (Credit: GoFundMe)
  A 5-year-old girl was shot and killed early Sunday morning on the West Side, according to police.
  The incident occurred around 3:32 a.m. in the 200-block of South Campbell Avenue near Jackson, in the Near West Side neighborhood.
  Police reported that a group of people were standing outside when shots were fired.
  The girl, identified as Reign Ware by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, was inside a parked car when she was hit in the abdomen. She was taken
  
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• Registration Now Open for RECESS24 National Black and Brown Clean Energy Conference

  29-05-2024 14:02
  
  Registration is now open for the RECESS24 National Black and Brown Clean Energy Conference, scheduled to take place from September 9 to 11, 2024, at Huntington Place, 1 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48226. Organized by Carla Walker-Miller, Founder and CEO of Walker-Miller Energy Services, this event promises to be a pivotal gathering for advancing equity in the clean energy sector.Entering its second year, RECESS24, also known as the Resilience & Equity in the Clean Energy Sector Summit,
  
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• The Carr Report: Stop doing things that set you back financially! Bad money habits you need to break

  29-05-2024 14:00
  
  I shared a meme on Facebook. The caption read, “I finally found the person who’s been spending all of my money.” The image was a lady with her hand in a chokehold position. The person who was being choked was the same lady’s shadow reflection of herself. Yep! When it comes to money management, we are the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of our money. We reaped the rewards and good fortune that comes from managing our money wisely. But we suffer through the agony and conseque
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for May 29, 2024

  29-05-2024 14:00
  
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• Outfucked

  29-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Abigail Stinson was called into an emergency meeting on the morning of Friday, April 19. The former manager of the Milwaukee and Damen location of the Chicago-based, high-end grocery/coffee shop hybrid Foxtrot Market logged onto the video call a few minutes late; she’d been tied up onboarding a new employee.  “There’s a cash flow issue. […]
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