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• Calling from the Ted Williams Tunnel

  24-09-2024 22:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Re: “Riverbeast alert,” written by Leor Galil and published in the August 22 issue (volume 53, number 29)  I take exception to [Galil’s] comments about me, the gentleman who opens the film with some comments about the ferocious Riverbeast and how it can be very frightening. Mr. Galil mentions that I have a Boston accent, […]
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• El Brote and Desvenar explore supporting players and cultural archetypes

  24-09-2024 19:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’ve seen them playing the soldier bringing an urgent message to the king or sent by the king to deliver a message (any of Shakespeare’s plays); running down a rickety mountain made of cardboard, paper-mache, and wire screaming in Castilian Spanish “Automobile!” (George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman); or as an elderly Italian couple on […]
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• Unsettling works by Alberto Ortega Trejo

  24-09-2024 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mexican architect and artist Alberto Ortega Trejo’s exhibition at Prairie is a result of the artist’s ongoing investigations into Otomí people—an Indigenous group native to what is now known as the Mezquital Valley north of Mexico City and of which he is a descendant. Here, he focuses on their cosmology and the fraught relation to […]
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