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• Cesar’s hand-stretched applewood-smoked string cheese from the Cheese People

  08-10-2024 23:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “No cloud cover,” mumbles the man behind me. It’s a sweltering Saturday at the Evanston Farmers’ Market, and we’re deep in line, a line that’s growing before my eyes—28 people, then 29. As always, I’m glad my first stop at the market is the Cheese People. There’s strategy to my beelining; I’ve circled back to […]
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• Mr. Man celebrates ten years of male nudity onscreen

  08-10-2024 22:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Getting off doesn’t always have to include the first video that pops up on Pornhub. In fact, turning yourself on can be more curated and more refined—and it can include your favorite celebrity tush.  When Mr. Man first went live online ten years ago, the website developers aimed to create a warehouse of archived male […]
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• Sole searching

  08-10-2024 22:25 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. I wouldn’t say the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who referred to themselves collectively as the Archers, are a blind spot of mine, but I’ve seen their films piecemeal […]
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• Jazz saxophonist Isaiah Collier retires the Chosen Few with a fiery new record

  08-10-2024 22:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago jazz saxophonist and composer Isaiah Collier began writing The World Is on Fire, his new album with the Chosen Few, before COVID-19 hit the States. His approach to the music took its shape in part from the pandemic and from racial-justice protests spurred by extrajudicial killings of Black people (George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud […]
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• The play’s the thing

  08-10-2024 21:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The title of Teatro Tariakuri’s latest, El Piélago de las Calamidades, translates in English as “a sea of calamities.” Alejandro Licona’s comedy takes a page from Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, telling the story of Hamlet through the misadventures of the play’s traveling actors, who are hired by the brooding prince to reenact […]
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• Bus stop snapshots

  08-10-2024 21:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Raven Theatre is billing its current production of Martyna Majok’s Ironbound as a Chicago premiere, but some theater fans may remember the workshop production ten years ago in Steppenwolf Theatre’s First Look Repertory program, starring the indomitable Lusia Strus. Majok did some of her earliest work here after graduating from the University of Chicago and […]
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• ‘A vision of female mercy, resistance, and solidarity’

  08-10-2024 19:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a platform, a scaffold indicating two towers. In one stands a worker, Elvira (Alma Pauleth), looking straight ahead. In another, a dancer (Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks) feathered in white, a bird or a bride, with an ornate mirror around her neck gleaming like a Catholic medal, who begins to move with fluttering gestures in the area […]
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• The grotesquerie of medical mistreatment

  08-10-2024 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Each piece in Cheri Lee Charlton’s solo exhibition, “Unseen and Underserved,” is paired with a quote from literature or professional medical publications about women’s reproductive, general physical, and mental health, exposing misdiagnoses during the late 20th century and its devastating, if not deadly, consequences. In Elliot Valenstein’s psychosurgery chronicle, Great and Desperate Cures, the psychologist […]
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