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• Review: The Silent Hour

  15-10-2024 23:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Silent Hour in limited release in theaters, in wide release on VOD
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• Review: Terrifier 3

  15-10-2024 23:22 via chicagoreader.com
  Terrifier 3 in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Saturday Night

  15-10-2024 23:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Saturday Night in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Joker: Folie à Deux

  15-10-2024 23:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Joker: Folie à Deux in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Hold Your Breath

  15-10-2024 23:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hold Your Breath streaming on Hulu
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• Dancers of the dark

  15-10-2024 22:13 via chicagoreader.com
  In the back of Simone’s Bar on 18th Street in Pilsen, beyond cozy booths and rustic wood, a red velvet curtain seals off the private area and conceals a hidden bacchanal.  The relatively small brick and chalkboard room, complete with its own full bar and restrooms, is dim save for red, pink, and purple spotlights, […]
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• Animal Records gives Evanston a vinyl shop for regular folks

  15-10-2024 21:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Greg Allen opened Evanston’s newest record shop in September—just barely. In a flush of optimism, he’d put a sign in the window at 624 Grove Street declaring that Animal Records would open then, but he quickly ran out of time. “It was September 30,” he says. “I’m looking at my watch, and it’s 4:30 in […]
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• Private eyes

  15-10-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. As Chicago’s ShotSpotter microphones come down following years of controversy about the gunshot detection device, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is trying out a new tool designed to detect the presence of firearms—this time, […]
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• Blocked from the ballot box

  15-10-2024 18:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The impact of incarceration can be calculated in lost years of freedom, time spent away from loved ones, and missed opportunities to earn degrees and build careers. But prisons in Illinois and across the country have another hidden cost that impacts all of society: lost votes. This year, more than 28,000 Illinoisans will be barred […]
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• Building bridges

  15-10-2024 18:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the sun rose over Chicago on the first day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, out-of-towners were undoubtedly impressed by the city’s downtown high-rises, jibaritos, and hot dogs, and protesters donned in keffiyehs and holding picket signs. Tens of thousands of protesters representing issues from tenants’ rights to police abolition flooded the streets of […]
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• A look at the work of Red Line Service artists

  15-10-2024 16:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Red Line Service artists at a public […]
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