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• ‘No new revenue without reform’

  12-09-2024 22:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago’s transit agencies are nearing the edge of a fiscal cliff. Ridership plummeted at the start of the pandemic, and it’s struggled to return in the years since. Where exactly those missing riders have gone—and why—is up for debate, but that lost revenue has put transit agencies, which rely on ridership fares to fund roughly […]
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• Review: Speak No Evil

  12-09-2024 18:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Speak No Evil in wide release in theaters
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• An oral history of Ragamala

  12-09-2024 18:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In fall 2013, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events kicked off its annual World Music Festival with an ambitious new program: an overnight celebration of Indian classical music called Ragamala. According to Ragamala cofounder and DCASE performing arts programmer Carlos Cuauhtémoc Tortolero, the event drew enthusiastic crowds from the jump. In the years […]
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• Sunken treasure

  12-09-2024 17:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You think the Titanic had a disastrous maiden voyage? Consider the Vasa, a Swedish warship constructed by King Gustavus Adolphus (sometimes called “the father of modern warfare”) between 1626 and 1628, that sank its first time out, after only clearing about 1,400 yards from shore. Now housed in her own museum in Stockholm’s Royal National […]
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• Last supper

  12-09-2024 17:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The tense family dinner has long been a trope for American realism. Just off the top of my head, plays that have such a device as a central dramatic event include Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose (heading to Broadway in winter 2025 after its Steppenwolf run earlier this year); Stephen Karam’s The […]
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• Free your mind (and your buds will follow) when Morgan Street Snacks comes to Monday Night Foodball

  12-09-2024 14:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ryan Cofrancesco was finishing a six-month bid for possession at the Vienna Correctional Facility when he started making pizza. He’d never been in trouble before, but the longtime restaurant worker had a drug problem and got busted with two dime bags of heroin. After two “terrible” months at Stateville, he was sent to a 120-bed […]
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• Against domestication

  12-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  D Rosen’s primary artistic mediums are their own time and labor, expended in service of “cultivating interspecies friendships.” Rosen’s “day jobs” as an animal caretaker (farmworker, pet sitter, etc.) allow them to both observe and bond with nonhuman animals, who then act as source material, collaborators, and activators of the artist’s practice. This significant investment […]
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