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• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil brings a funny, juicy spin to the story

  09-07-2024 23:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sex work is hard. As a spectator, I’ve noticed at best it can be filled with perks, and at worst, it’s a thankless, even fatal profession where your humanity is rarely, if ever, considered. John Berendt’s (mostly) nonfiction, true crime novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was released in 1994 and is […]
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• Explore the city’s ‘more-than-human soundtrack’

  09-07-2024 22:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) takes over Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion this summer, audiences will hear lots of familiar sounds: the beeping of CTA trains, summer cicadas, the bucket boys of Michigan Avenue, and waves from Lake Michigan crashing on the beach. The Pritzker Pavilion is well-known as the home for live music […]
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• Review: Sunny (Season one)

  09-07-2024 22:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Americans are scared of artificial intelligence. According to a YouGov survey, 54 percent use the word “cautious” when explaining their feelings toward AI, and 49 percent feel “concerned.” In the new Apple TV+ series, Sunny, a futuristic backdrop of Japan and distrust in robots is revealed through dark comedy, unbelievable grief, distrust, and a battle […]
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• Review: Mother, Couch

  09-07-2024 22:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Anyone who’s rummaged for loose coins in the void of the couch cushions understands what a tedious, Sisyphean task it can be. While the geniuses at IKEA may develop a sofa streamlined enough to combat this issue, a tour through the store’s layout is its own maddening chore. Symbolically, the furniture aisle is a purgatory […]
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• Review: Last Summer

  09-07-2024 22:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I wouldn’t know for sure, but I imagine it hurts more to be stabbed with a dull butter knife than a sharp blade. The obtuseness of the thing makes its impact that much sharper, metaphorically speaking—an assertion that holds true for French provocateur Catherine Breillat’s latest film, her first in ten years.  Last Summer is […]
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• Review: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

  09-07-2024 22:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person follows Sasha (Sara Montpetit), an introverted young vampire with a crippling problem: she doesn’t have the stomach to kill. When she befriends the suicidal Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), it seems like the two may be able to solve each other’s problems, but finding the guts to pull off her first […]
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• An intense and memorable Romeo & Juliet

  09-07-2024 21:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Usually in productions of Romeo & Juliet, the craziest character in the play is the clever, word-drunk, not-quite-right-in-his-head Mercutio. It is Mercutio, after all, who delivers that unhinged Queen Mab speech and then later in the play goads the most competent swordsman in the play—and the one with major anger issues—to a sword fight. In Oak […]
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• Man Sentenced For Killing Fiancée Whose Remains Were Found In Trash Bag

  09-07-2024 14:00
  
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  A California man has been sentenced for the murder of his fiancée whose dismembered remains were found in a trash bag.
  According to PEOPLE, 43-year-old Joseph Roberts was sentenced to 15 years to life in connection to the killing of Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner, 27. Roberts was also ordered to pay $19, 818 in restitution.
  Roberts’ sentencing comes after the Alameda Police Department responded to a suspicious circumstance report on July 20, 2023, which led to th
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Rep. Jamaal Bowman faced the firing squad

  09-07-2024 14:00
  
  Politics is the art of compromise. Activists, on the other hand, are uncompromising. What happens when an activist wins a seat in Congress but decides to stay an activist rather than become a politician?
  They do not survive long.
  In 2020, the Justice Democrats recruited Jamaal Bowman, a 44-year-old Black man and former middle school principal who self-identified as a democratic-socialist, to run for Congress in New York’s 16th district against a 16-term incumbent whom the Justice Democrats
  
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• Adam Zanolini’s Heliacal Rising of Sothis pays tribute to Chicago jazz great Kelan Phil Cohran

  09-07-2024 00:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kelan Phil Cohran (1927-2017) was a Chicago musical institution. He played trumpet and zither with the Sun Ra Arkestra on some of its classic albums (including 1965’s Angels and Demons at Play), he was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and he led the Artistic Heritage Ensemble. His […]
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• The Chosen Few Picnic is still one of the best ways to spend a Chicago summer day 

  09-07-2024 00:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Over the past couple decades, Chicago’s summer festival calendar has gotten cartoonishly overstuffed. This weekend, the 34th annual Chosen Few Picnic & Festival is one of five big outdoor music events. The others include two of the city’s largest street festivals—Square Roots and West Fest—each with three days of music that rival the bills at […]
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• LA punk stalwarts Redd Kross celebrate their 45th anniversary with a new double album

  09-07-2024 00:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Redd Kross are one of those righteous “band’s bands.” This long-running Los Angeles outfit, legends in the worlds of punk and power pop, casually influenced the burgeoning Seattle scene in the late 80s (though lore has it that Kurt Cobain once told Melvins drummer Dale Crover that they were “too happy”). Brothers Jeff and Steven […]
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• Chicago’s Pocketboy Solid just want to have fun

  09-07-2024 00:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The three folks in new Chicago indie-rock group Pocketboy Solid seem like they’d be fun hangs. I base this largely on their new self-titled album and the whimsical, piano-led single they dropped in early April, “Close Encounters of the Richard Kind.” The song’s video follows front man Joe Baughman as he wigs out in a […]
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• Guitarist Julie Byrne taps into love, grief, and human connection 

  09-07-2024 00:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Julie Byrne’s music is rooted in connection and care. The Buffalo-born singer-songwriter (and onetime Chicagoan) first picked up the guitar at age 17 when her father, a fingerstyle guitarist, could no longer play his beloved instrument due to complications from multiple sclerosis. Over the past decade, she’s released three full-length records of intimate, heartfelt folk […]
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