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• Review: Trap

  14-08-2024 22:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Trap in wide release in theaters
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• Review: The Premiere

  14-08-2024 22:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Premiere screening 8/27 at the Davis Theater
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• Review: Cuckoo

  14-08-2024 22:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Cuckoo in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Alien: Romulus

  14-08-2024 22:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alien: Romulus in wide release in theaters
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• Fred Holstein is the forgotten anchor of Chicago’s folk scene

  14-08-2024 21:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Longtime readers of the Secret History of Chicago Music know that one of my favorite ways to find a subject is to stumble across one of their LPs in the bins at a thrift store. I’d heard a bit about local folkie Fred Holstein, but I almost instantly understood a lot more about him as […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 28

  14-08-2024 18:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 28. August 15, 2024
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• the harvest

  14-08-2024 17:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By McKenzie Chinn
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• A picture of protest

  14-08-2024 17:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Some 50,000 visitors are expected to descend on Chicago for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as delegates come together to nominally pick the party’s 2024 presidential candidate and their running mate. Many organizations will protest around the city—from pro-Palestinian demonstrators to abortion rights groups and anti-poverty coalitions—and some are still fighting to march within “sight […]
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• Have you eaten?

  14-08-2024 17:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Have you eaten?”  The unassuming question carries with it generations of love, an active kind of love, especially among immigrant communities. It feels like an open secret across homes that food is often a supplement, or sometimes a stand-in, for verbalized love. Food transcends emotional barriers—a salve, simply plated. There’s a truth and beauty to […]
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• ‘We will not protect you’ 

  14-08-2024 16:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was copublished with the Invisible Institute. Content note: This story discusses police violence. On the final day of May in 2020, at the height of demonstrations against police violence that gripped cities nationwide after the murder of George Floyd, protesters filmed a violent scene at the corner of Clark and Hubbard in Chicago’s […]
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• Merry-go-round of codependence

  14-08-2024 16:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Domestic violence, suicide, bullying—Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1945 musical Carousel is as famous for its dark subject matter as its soaring score. (My high school graduation featured our school chorus singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” as I suspect many others have over the years.) While Daniel Fish’s reimagined take on Oklahoma! a few […]
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• MUBI FEST 2024 celebrates the rich connection between music and film

  14-08-2024 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The streaming giant’s inaugural festival in the U.S. presents an exciting lineup of film screenings, music events, and more. This month, MUBI comes to Chicago to present the American edition of MUBI FEST 2024. The two-day event is part of an international series of festivals hosted by the London-based streaming platform and film distributor in […]
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• A trip worth taking

  14-08-2024 16:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  During the pandemic shutdown, perhaps nothing surprised me as much with Zoom theater as seeing magicians work their craft without the close-up settings we’re so used to, especially in Chicago. Among the best of the online magic shows I saw was Jon Tai’s Missed Connections, presented via Zoom from the artist’s Pittsburgh home by A […]
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• The InterPlays explores the joy of falling in love

  14-08-2024 15:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fat Theatre Project makes an exuberant debut with The InterPlays, an anthology of short plays celebrating and untangling the enigma of love.  Founded by Eileen Tull in early 2024, Fat Theatre Project aims to tell stories “by/about/with/for fat people.” The InterPlays marks the company’s first full production, following a series of workshops and readings. Company […]
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• Pericles al fresco

  14-08-2024 15:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For those of us who know and love Shakespeare mostly for his most popular plays—the often produced comedies, tragedies, and histories—Pericles is a hard play to warm up to. Pericles’s story is rambly, episodic, and feels at times utterly random. It is all one thing after another: he flees his home, he goes to sea, […]
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• Backstage family drama

  14-08-2024 15:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Tin Drum Theatre Company’s inaugural production is well-suited for its motto, “where dramatic disturbances are the norm.” Founding member Steve Needham’s original one-act, directed by cofounder Jason Palmer and starring fellow cofounder Teddy Boone, among others, concerns one infamous historical legend—John Wilkes Booth. We know what he did, but I didn’t know he had two […]
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• Failure to take root

  14-08-2024 15:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is irony in this play bookending itself with a Blanche DuBois scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, because those moments hold more nuance than the rest of This One Will Grow. As the youngest of three sisters with a significant age gap who grew up in Wisconsin, this play should have felt like my […]
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