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• Kahlo Margarita at Nobody’s Darling

  07-08-2024 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. I hate the sound of people lip smacking as they chew, but I love food and drink that requires a robust, sticky intimacy between the imbiber and the imbibed. Pomegranates, shellfish, artichoke hearts; you can use a tool to crack or cleave, but the best utensils are […]
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• The art of protest

  07-08-2024 22:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Want to move people to action? Call in the designers. Need to right the ship in a hurry? Same. On the Sunday in July when Joe Biden announced he was passing the torch, the Biden/Harris design team leapt into emergency responder mode, rebranding the campaign within hours with a “Harris for President” logo fashioned to […]
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• Kokandy Productions takes us down the rabbit hole

  07-08-2024 22:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For their follow-up to 2006’s Spring Awakening, composer Duncan Sheik and librettist and lyricist Steven Sater turned to Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic. Set in a bomb shelter during the London Blitz, Alice by Heart, now in a midwest premiere with Kokandy Productions in the wholly appropriate basement studio at the Chopin, feels like two different […]
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• Soulful sweetness

  07-08-2024 21:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of the sinister knock-on effects of religious institutions rejecting queer people is how it encourages so many of them to negate inner faith altogether—to throw out the spiritual baby with the holy bath water, if you will.  And then there are people like Daniel (Yuchi Chiu), a young, openly gay Yale Divinity School graduate […]
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• A little short of celestial

  07-08-2024 21:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Because theater lovers love to be dramatic, we constantly divide shows into hits and flops, shows that soar and shows that don’t. But what about all those mid shows—shows that sometimes entertain, but also go a bit long? Such is the case with the current revival of Rick Elice’s 2009 stage adaptation of Dave Barry […]
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• Sweet revenge

  07-08-2024 18:53 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. For whatever reason, there was a one-night-only screening at the Alamo Drafthouse last Tuesday of a 4K restoration of Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui’s 2002 drama July Rhapsody. My husband is […]
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• Pookie Crack Cakes sells out every day

  07-08-2024 18:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As I stood in line on 47th Street, just east of Michigan Avenue, I heard a lady a few spots ahead of me exclaim, “They’ve been selling out every day!” It was a sunny Thursday morning in the middle of a hot July, shortly after 11 AM, the time Pookie Crack Cakes is scheduled to […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 27

  07-08-2024 18:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 27. August 8, 2024
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• Magical Thinking is smart and entertaining

  07-08-2024 17:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to magic practitioners in Chicago, but David Parr is always a good bet for a fun and thought-provoking night out. His current Wednesday-night show at the Chicago Magic Lounge, Magical Thinking, draws a little bit on folklore and history as he outlines the two kinds of thought processes […]
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• Reformation

  07-08-2024 17:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Kiayla Ryann
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• The rituals of Idris Khan

  07-08-2024 17:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At his first museum solo in the U.S., Idris Khan evokes a memory of his father demonstrating the discipline of riyaz (practice) to a younger version of him. Deepening his connection to the divine through the recital of the Qur’an, his father would instruct, “Now, repeat after me.” Following suit until age 15, Khan then […]
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• A parade of memories

  07-08-2024 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago’s beauty pageant queens, jazz pianist Dorothy Donegan, Chicago Defender paper boys, and professional boxer Joe Louis are just some of the unwitting stars scattered in the archival home movies of Bronzeville electrician Ramon Williams. With a Kodachrome film camera in hand, Williams ventured beyond his doorstep to immortalize the daily life of his community. […]
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• A Case for Dark Spells

  07-08-2024 17:18 via chicagoreader.com
  By Kiayla Ryann
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• History in motion

  07-08-2024 16:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Caught in the blink between flight and fall, strands of hair aloft, clothes billowing from the gale force of human motion, the halted vibration of sound mid-scream, vectors intersecting and colliding, an impulse like a waterslide, a parachute, a whisper. We think of dance as motion, fundamentally—and yet, in William Frederking’s photography, we know we […]
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