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• Adrift in recombination

  09-10-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Ambulance Chase,” set in the young Old Friends gallery in Roscoe Village, memorializes a world drowning in an infinity of recombined images and information. The works on view are monuments to the delirious, placeless, ravenous absurdity of the present, foreign yet tantalizingly familiar as they collapse past into present. With this crisis as the pretext, […]
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• Deep Cut Pierogi gets weird at the next Monday Night Foodball

  09-10-2024 19:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pierogi are personal for Chelsea Pickard. Once, she made a spinach-potato-parm pierogi with sun-dried tomato, peas, and Alabama white barbecue sauce, inspired by the Geraldine Fibbers song “Lilybelle.” “It reminded me of being on the road in Nashville: long drives with the windows rolled down, smoking. It was for sure hillbilly grunge.” Recently, she did […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 2

  09-10-2024 18:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 2. October 10, 2024
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• Oishii combines Japanese tradition with innovative technology to bring the sweetest strawberries to Chicago

  09-10-2024 16:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The company’s pioneering sustainable vertical strawberry farm allows fruit to be grown to peak quality all year round. There’s nothing like the sensation of biting into a perfectly ripe, juicy strawberry. But in colder regions like Illinois, peak harvest season for the delicious red berries lasts only a few weeks. That means the bulk of […]
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• Making room for wildness

  09-10-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Leasho Johnson’s The Sea Is Another Country, a figure is hunched over, mired in a collage of color and fluid shapes. In the painting, birthed in conversation with Dionne Brand’s book A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, this figure is placed in the midst of a Black oceanic landscape. […]
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