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• Review: Rez Ball

  01-10-2024 23:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rez Ball streaming on Netflix
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• Review: Daaaaaalí!

  01-10-2024 23:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Daaaaaal! opening 10/11 at the Music Box Theatre
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• Thrashing around

  01-10-2024 23:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Northwestern University president Michael Schill fared better than some of his predecessors when he went into the lion’s den of a hearing on anti-Semitism on college campuses by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last May. Two of three university presidents who’d testified before the committee at a previous hearing—Harvard president Claudine Gay […]
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• It’s Pupusa Time at the next Monday Night Foodball

  01-10-2024 23:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Everything changed the day Jon Anleu first made pupusas with heirloom masa. “I brought my brother and sister over, and we all sat down and ate,” he says. “They just looked at each other like, ‘What is this? This is amazing. What have we been eating? Life is a lie.’ Since that day, I never […]
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• A solo show that falls flat

  01-10-2024 22:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “The Deep Element,” on view at Patron, is Alice Tippit’s second solo presentation with the gallery. Comprised of oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, it is a hopelessly pat exhibition.  It’s unclear what Tippit is attempting to accomplish by painting. Quit, with its corpulent limbs, and Bling, with its sliced fruit, manage to make […]
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• Chicago Lore(s) delves into the history of the Young Lords

  01-10-2024 22:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sammy A. Publes’s Chicago Lore(s), now in a world premiere at UrbanTheater Company, is a political play in the best sense. This isn’t theater that tendentiously tells us how to think about sociopolitical issues. Rather, it’s an absorbing story that makes you consider what it takes to try to change yourself and your community—one hard-fought […]
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• Evanston punks Verböten release their debut album 41 years after breaking up

  01-10-2024 21:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Evanston singer and multi-instrumentalist Jason Narducy has had a long career—he landed his first major-label deal in the 1990s with Verbow, joined Bob Mould’s band in 2005, launched his Split Single project in 2011, and started touring as Superchunk’s bassist in 2013—but before all that, he played in a short-lived punk band called Verböten. They […]
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• Misery just misses

  01-10-2024 21:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For 12-year-old Amanda, the macabre was tantalizing. I gobbled up horror books like Pennywise devoured kids. One summer I introduced Stephen King to the mix with four books: It, The Shining, Pet Sematary, and Misery. King’s gripping Misery enthralled me. A tale of a megafan gone mad who holds her beloved author hostage after a […]
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• A whiter shade of soul

  01-10-2024 20:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jackie Taylor’s latest for Black Ensemble Theater, Blue Eyed Soul Sung by Brown Eyed People, is pretty much as advertised: a collection of hits from white artists such as the Righteous Brothers (“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'”), Tommy James and the Shondells (“Crystal Blue Persuasion”), and—in a rousing first-act closing medley—Tom Jones. They’re performed by […]
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• Of bunnies and banned books

  01-10-2024 20:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ghostlight Ensemble’s Alabama Story is a timely reflection on censorship and moral awakening. This daring production, directed by Holly Robison, opened at After-Words Bookstore during Banned Books Week (it continues at After-Words and Haymarket House through October 20) with a poignant reminder that the fight for social justice continues. Written by Kenneth Jones, Alabama Story […]
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• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child overflows with stage magic

  01-10-2024 19:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The James M. Nederlander Theatre was aglow on opening night. A first performance for the first national tour of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child brought together Potterheads, casual fans, and theatergoers to jump forward in time after J.K. Rowling’s famed fantasy novels ended. It is a time when the teenage children of Harry, Ron, […]
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