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• Blue Line blues

  22-10-2024 22:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Raunel Urquiza takes the Blue Line into the Loop, the train often feels empty. On the days he rides from Austin, he sees fewer people coming in from the west suburbs and the city’s west side the past few months. “It keeps you on your toes if you’re going to work by yourself or […]
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• Justyna Haluch is the zapiekanka queen of Schiller Woods

  22-10-2024 22:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Justyna Haluch first started selling zapiekanki, she tried to fancy them up with marinara sauce. “We don’t want dry baguettes,” she recalls. But her customers, raised on the original template for Polish French bread pizza, decisively rejected her attempts to upgrade this seminal street food. “A lot [of] people say, ‘Hey, it’s not Polish. […]
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• Chicago punk pioneers the Effigies release a final album with late front man John Kezdy

  22-10-2024 22:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Effigies were part of a small but mighty contingent of bands that launched Chicago’s first wave of punk. Formed in 1980, they charged out of the gate with a fast, brash sound that proved foundational to midwestern hardcore. “Guns or Ballots,” from the live 1981 compilation Busted at Oz, set the template for that […]
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• An erotics of art

  22-10-2024 21:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”-Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation Breathing in the crisp air and full sunlight of autumn, I leaf through Sontag’s Against Interpretation and Other Essays, seeking respite from the merciless continuity of war and violence mediated via social media: forced displacements; the expansion of the war between […]
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• The horror, the horror

  22-10-2024 19:31 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 Chicago Marathon and the Music Box of Horrors 24-hour horror movie marathon—which, as luck would have it, usually occur within a week of each other every year—actually have a lot […]
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• Pepperoni, hot honey, and ricotta pizza at Novel Pizza Cafe

  22-10-2024 18:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You can walk into Novel Pizza Cafe hungry and walk out with a pizza pie and a matcha latte. Yes, coffee drinks and pizza go together.  The small, unassuming pizza joint in Pilsen is inspired by the owners’ Filipino and Mexican heritages. While the south side has many classic pizza spots, Novel elevates the experience. […]
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• ‘Today we are all participants’

  22-10-2024 17:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last February, in what Chilean president Gabriel Boric described as “the worst fire in an urban area in the last 30 years,” a forest fire swept through the coastal city of Viña del Mar in the Valparaíso region after days of extreme heat, leaving more than 130 people dead, at least 370 missing, and thousands […]
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• Giving flowers

  22-10-2024 16:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As artists are we automatically flower planters in our communities or do we learn to give back to them through practice? I ponder this on my way to experience “diversión,” the offerings that Carlos Flores has organized during his Anchor Curatorial Residency with the Chicago Park District. When I think of the work Flores has […]
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• At the Arts Club, Haegue Yang collapses the 3D world

  22-10-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Is 2D inferior to 3D? A 2021 study found that “3D objects are more readily perceived than 2D images” due to the cognitive understanding that we can interact with “real things.” Similarly, we may find ourselves more attracted to a sculptural object in front of us versus something two-dimensional hanging on a gallery wall. Seoul-born […]
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