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• Kinky horror films find pleasure in pain

  17-10-2024 23:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Spooky, scary skeletons . . . in leather? Yes, of course, says John McDevitt, kinky movie buff and film programmer of the Leather Archives and Museum’s Fetish Film Forum. Now in its second year, the forum hosts monthly screenings of films that, through their visuals or storylines, pay homage to kink and leather culture. Past […]
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• Kaiser Tiger rooftop honey

  17-10-2024 23:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Early last summer, when the Randolph Street lindens were bursting with clusters of tiny yellow-white blossoms, Callie Roach’s honeybees went crazy. Roach is the general manager at Fulton Market’s Kaiser Tiger, and when the restaurant installed five colonies—via the Hive Supply Company—on its rooftop earlier in the spring, she became the head beekeeper too. When […]
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• Mai tais and other ties

  17-10-2024 23:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  My first introduction to playwright Eboni Booth was in 2022, when Steep Theatre produced her play Paris, about a young Black woman working in a big-box store in a small Vermont town. That story contained an element of danger and darkness that isn’t really present in Booth’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Primary Trust, now in a local […]
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• Visit the kitchen witches at Loaves & Witches

  17-10-2024 23:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For anyone who wishes that spooky season could last year-round, just head to Edgewater, where Loaves & Witches is open late. The cafe serves up magical pastries and coffee alongside weekly tarot readings in a whimsigothic atmosphere. There, co-owners Julia Goodmann (she/they) and Lisa Harriman (she/they) welcome all uncanny Chicagoans with open arms: curious witches, […]
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• Molière’s The Misanthrope retains its relevance

  17-10-2024 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Though first produced in 1666, Molière’s The Misanthrope still feels daisy-fresh in its observations on how humans are driven by the foibles of social (or in today’s terms, parasocial) relationships. Forest Park Theatre’s current staging by artistic director and founder Richard Corley (the first indoor production in the young company’s history) doesn’t take risks with […]
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• Milo Imagines the World lights up Chicago Children’s Theatre

  17-10-2024 22:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Children’s Theatre’s latest, Milo Imagines the World, is an absolute delight. But more than that, this world premiere of a musical based on the 2021 book by Matt de la Peña (illustrations by Christian Robinson) is a real hero’s journey that ends up celebrating the power of family ties to endure even under duress. […]
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• Fairy tale theater

  17-10-2024 22:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Theatre Above the Law’s seasonal production based on fairy tales by (or collected by, more accurately) the Brothers Grimm returns for a fourth time with the same narrative framework: the stories are all told by characters who hang out in a bar for “survivors,” as they explain to Jakob Grimm (Nick Barnes), who storms into […]
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• The magically macabre world of Sublime Remains 

  17-10-2024 21:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A few years ago I was at the 21c Museum Hotel for the first of their annual Fashion’s Night Out event, which celebrates up-and-coming designers in Chicago’s fashion scene. I was there helping a friend set up a display for their new line, but once that was done, I wasn’t really sure what to do […]
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• Can an AI character experience life like a human?

  17-10-2024 21:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “The condition of living is eventually leaving.” This refrain echoes across space and time in Remember You Will Die, a kaleidoscopic science fiction novel by Chicago author Eden Robins. Structured as a series of obituaries, Robins’s literary puzzle box uses an AI character’s story to examine the very human experiences of love, jealousy, betrayal, grief, […]
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• The Reader’s cheat sheet to the 2024 Chicago school board elections

  17-10-2024 20:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Movie love

  17-10-2024 19:48 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. The most interesting fact about myself that I save for such occasions when people want to hear one is that my husband and I got engaged after a week. Of course, […]
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• Fear of revolution haunts occult films

  17-10-2024 19:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Occult films often link their nefarious demonic forces to marginalized people—common tropes include Indigenous graveyards, witchy women consorting with devils, evil bloodsucking ambiguously Jewish foreign vampires. Horror is often horror about marginalized, erased, dispossessed people whose existence or memory threatens a white, patriarchal, colonial status quo. Bad conscience and fear of revolution haunt occult films.  […]
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• Art Design Chicago platforms local perspectives and histories through diverse exhibitions and events

  17-10-2024 16:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The sprawling arts initiative features dozens of free and low-cost exhibits and programs throughout the city and suburbs Chicago artists and designers are on the vanguard of the visual arts world and make an impact that reverberates far and wide. But in a sprawling metropolis with a large, diverse population, it can be challenging for […]
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