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• ‘I know what I’m worth’: The joys and struggles of Chicago’s migrant go-go boys

  04-09-2024 23:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This article was copublished with City Bureau, a nonprofit journalism lab reimagining local news. Support City Bureau’s Civic Reporting fellowship by becoming a recurring donor. Men dressed solely in underwear pepper an uncrowded, low-lit gay club in Chicago’s Northalsted on a chilly weekend night. Pop music thumps loud enough to drown out intimate conversation. Bartenders […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 31

  04-09-2024 20:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 30. August 29, 2024
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• Shravan Raghuram, indie workaholic

  04-09-2024 19:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Before I interviewed Shravan Raghuram, I already knew he kept busy. I first learned about the 25-year-old drummer in 2023 because he plays in Fruitleather, an experimental rock group with singer and multi-instrumentalist D Jean-Baptiste and bassist Stas Slyvka. Earlier this year I got into one of his other bands, the Courts, an indie-rock trio […]
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• The freaks came out to talk

  04-09-2024 18:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This week, clearly feeling the need to get a jump on things, the New York Times Book Review devoted an entire issue to its list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” as chosen by 503 “literary luminaries.” They didn’t bother to append a “so far” to the headline, though they did describe […]
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• Manic panic

  04-09-2024 18:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Jonathan Demme’s 1986 anti-screwball comedy, Something Wild, Jeff Daniels’s straight-arrow yuppie gets his life turned upside down in a scary way by Melanie Griffith’s wild child, Lulu. That same spirit animates Chicago writer Richard Lyons Conlon’s comedic thriller 7 Minutes to Live—now in a world premiere with brand-new Unexpected Theatre Company (in association with […]
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• Stripping for parts

  04-09-2024 17:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With The Full Monty, Paramount Theatre completes the trifecta of musicals derived from movies about British deindustrialization, on the heels of 2021’s Kinky Boots and Billy Elliot earlier this year. Book writer Terrence McNally and composer David Yazbek’s 2000 take on the 1997 film moves the story from Sheffield in the north of England to […]
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• Daniel Borzutzky on his latest book of poetry

  04-09-2024 17:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with writer Daniel Borzutzky about his new poetry book The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, out now from Coffee House Press. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Daniel Borzutzky’s seventh book of poetry, The Murmuring Grief of the Americas continues his decades-long investigation of the ways […]
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• Musicalizing the legend

  04-09-2024 17:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When legend becomes fact, musicalize the legend (to paraphrase John Ford). Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone follow this strategy again and again over the course of their rousing 1969 musical about the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Facts are ignored, chronology twisted, dramatic moments invented—all in the name of […]
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• Men of Marvel

  04-09-2024 16:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At long last, true believers, the third installment of Mark Pracht’s “Four-Color Trilogy”—The House of Ideas—is here, opening the 2024–’25 season at City Lit Theater. Following Pracht’s first two plays, The Mark of Kane and The Innocence of Seduction, it explores the relationship between two giants of the comic book industry: Stan Lee and Jack […]
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• The dreamscapes of Kendall Hill

  04-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What parts of ourselves do we keep, and what parts do we leave behind? This is the question at the center of FEVERDREAMS, the debut publication from Chicago artist and photographer Kendall Hill.  Told through photography, collage, and stream-of-consciousness prose, FEVERDREAMS is a somnambulant jaunt into a liminal state between the sleeping and waking worlds. […]
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• Best Premium Porn Sites: Top 50 Paid Porn Sites of 2024

  04-09-2024 08:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is no shortage of free porn on the internet, and it’s great for a quick experience, but there are downsides to the free sites. After all, you’re not getting exclusive content, and you have to deal with other annoying things, such as short videos (basically trailers) and spammy ads that may contain viruses. Like […]
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