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• Checking out the cookbook clubs of the Chicago Public Library

  05-09-2024 23:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With glossy photo spreads and wide page margins, cookbooks are almost as tantalizing as the lifestyles they sell—one in which you’re casually whipping up roasted artichokes after work or preparing a delicious meal for 20 of your closest (hot) friends. The same features that make cookbooks so appealing (nice paper, pretty photos, hard covers) can […]
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• In the universe I create

  05-09-2024 23:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By LaLa Bolander
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• Aussie alternative hip-hop artist Forest Claudette explores identity and queer romance on Moonlight

  05-09-2024 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For Australian singer-songwriter Forest Claudette (born Kobe Hamilton-Reeves), vulnerability is a blessing, not a curse. The soulful alternative hip-hop artist uses their music to work through personal ups and downs: the slow-grooving February single “Kobe Beef,” for instance, feels like an inner monologue, as Claudette opens up about coming out as nonbinary and chooses just […]
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• Mod icon Paul Weller gets introspective on 66

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Music fans often extend their favorite artists some grace as they age. We’ll buy a ticket to a Vegas residency even though the diva’s voice has gotten raspy; we’ll look the other way when a favorite soul singer attempts to get back on the charts by working with an EDM producer. Fortunately for fans of […]
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• Lavender Prairie Queer Country Festival champions LGBTQ+ country artists

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the early 1970s, gay activist and singer-songwriter Patrick Haggerty began to use country music to explore his sexual orientation, share stories, and uplift the queer community. His pioneering 1973 album, Lavender Country, wraps a welcoming arm around you with its deeply personal, observational songs about queer love, life, and liberation, often inviting you to […]
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• La Armada and Racetraitor join forces on a perception-shattering hardcore bill

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than 20 years, fiercely righteous hardcore group La Armada have fought to keep their band together. They left their home country, the Dominican Republic, one by one, and lived in Florida for a time before reconvening in Chicago, which they’ve made their home base since 2008. Their aggressive metallic hardcore sound is flexible […]
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• Italian horror-movie-music master Fabio Frizzi live-scores cult classic Zombie

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The 1970s were an incredible time for Italian genre films. Auteurs were given huge piles of money (and broad creative license) to crank out schlock, including grindhouse movies that piggybacked off popular American titles. Enter Lucio Fulci’s 1979 flick Zombi 2, an unofficial sequel to George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, which had been reedited […]
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• Chicago drone rockers Zelienople continue to reach for the sublime on Everything Is Simple

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than a quarter century, Chicago drone-rock trio Zelienople have evoked the feeling of quietly searching. Their songs are tranquil and eerie, and as often as their music reaches for the sublime, they also let you understand that what they aspire toward isn’t confined to the music—that is, it doesn’t end when the last […]
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• Can Tommy Richman’s white-hot breakout single launch a career?

  05-09-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Who is Tommy Richman? It’s hard to say from his music, which the Virginia singer has doled out in loosies and EPs for the past couple years. All I could tell for sure from his big stylistics swings (last year’s watery house number “Pray 2 U”) and pop pastiches (this year’s 1980s mash note “Selfish”) […]
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• Rajas con queso bagel sandwich at the Stockyard Coffeehouse

  05-09-2024 21:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. I’m always on a breakfast sandwich hunt. I usually pick cafes based on my particular needs that day, considering my bank account, emotions, […]
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• Great like 68?

  05-09-2024 19:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nothing loomed over this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) like the specter of 1968, when live footage of Chicago police cracking the skulls and dragging the bodies of anti-war protesters invaded living rooms worldwide. Earlier this year, national news outlets began to draw comparisons between then and now: “Is it 1968 all over again?” NPR […]
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• Thoughts and prayers

  05-09-2024 16:00 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. After a busy week I usually make it a point to not go out on Fridays, but I couldn’t resist the siren call of a unique-to-me screening event taking place at […]
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• ‘Books saved my life’

  05-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reading is a revolutionary act. That’s the philosophy of Danielle Moore, founder of Chicago’s Semicolon Books. Since opening the first Semicolon bookstore in 2019, Moore has dedicated her business to closing the literacy gap for minority communities in Chicago. Through book giveaways to students, Moore is providing access to and building interest in books—a concept […]
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