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• Stabbing at shadows

  28-08-2024 22:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In a couple of weeks, the national tour of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child lands at the James M. Nederlander Theatre. The show, written by Jack Thorne from an original story by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Play. But Rowling’s online attacks against trans people—or in the […]
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• The greatest show on earth?

  28-08-2024 22:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m a block or two north of Damen and Lake when I start to hear the helicopters. It’s a Monday afternoon in mid-August—the first day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Biking by an endless line of cop cars and police in tan tactical camo vests, I cut through a park and pass four […]
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• The greatest party on earth?

  28-08-2024 22:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m a block or two north of Damen and Lake when I start to hear the helicopters. It’s a Monday afternoon in mid-August—the first day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Biking by an endless line of cop cars and police in tan tactical camo vests, I cut through a park and pass four […]
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• Migos Fine Foods is the halal southern-fried taqueria you didn’t know you were hungry for

  28-08-2024 20:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Which would win in a fight: a lamb or a pig? It’s obvious to Azazi Morsi. “If you bring a real lamb, you know, a 150-pounder? You fuck the pig up. Me and Jup would always go back and forth with each other, because he loves to eat pork, and I love to eat lamb.” […]
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• Billy Harper prays and preaches through his saxophone

  28-08-2024 20:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Saxophonist Billy Harper has a quote from jazz radio broadcaster Miles Willis emblazoned across the top of his website. “There are two kinds of people,” says Willis, who DJs for community station WPFW in Washington, D.C. “Those who love Billy Harper, and those who haven’t heard him yet.”  I’d add that you can do better […]
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• Review: The Crow

  28-08-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Crow in wide release in theaters
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• Review: It Ends With Us

  28-08-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It Ends With Us in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Blink Twice

  28-08-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Review: Bad Press

  28-08-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bad Press streaming on the Criterion Channel
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• Katie Chung honors the ordinary

  28-08-2024 17:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  While Katie Chung draws a clear line between her public mural and personal art practices, inside her home the boundary between her life and her work is faint, if visible at all. Quilts she’s sewn from laundry tags gathered at her mother’s dry cleaning and alterations shop hang in her dining room. Against a wall […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 30

  28-08-2024 17:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 30. August 29, 2024
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• 37

  28-08-2024 17:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By J. Evelyn
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• Amina Claudine Myers bridges Black gospel and the avant-garde

  28-08-2024 17:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  While Amina Claudine Myers was visiting Kansas City as a child, two women unexpectedly asked her to sing. “I didn’t feel comfortable doing anything,” she tells me, “but the Creator put me in positions to make music.” Myers, born in 1942 in Blackwell, Arkansas, says she was shy growing up. Still, she studied classical piano, […]
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• Meta musical

  28-08-2024 16:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s self-aware—and then there’s [title of show]. Billed as being “about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical,” PrideArts launches its 2024-25 season with the Broadway/off-Broadway hit by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell that gleefully takes one of the most cliche of musical-comedy plot lines—creating a musical comedy—and heightens it to […]
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• The Normal Heart is timely again

  28-08-2024 16:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On July 27, 1982, as editor of Chicago GayLife newspaper, I attended a meeting in Washington, D.C., between government health officials and a group of LGBTQ+ activists and leaders of organizations representing hemophiliacs. The purpose of the gathering was to share information about a mysterious new illness that had begun to enter the national consciousness […]
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