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• Viewfinder were a band out of time

  20-11-2024 22:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nostalgia tells us that the “alternative” musical revolution of the early 1990s saw androgynous shoegazers, fierce riot grrrls, and punky grunge bands elbowing aside hair metal and slick pop on the charts. But this cultural shift didn’t mean local scenes were suddenly inclusive, aesthetically diverse places. Though the 90s underground in Champaign-Urbana had a few […]
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• The sprawling practice of Frank Lloyd Wright

  20-11-2024 20:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright” through 1/5/25 at the Driehaus Museum
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• Colleen O’Doherty found community at Chicago Filmmakers

  20-11-2024 18:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Albert Camus once declared, “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” It’s a tall order, but one perhaps made easier with a community both to support you and to come together in executing such an arduous task. This kind of camaraderie might be found at the monthly Queer Writers Club, […]
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• Given Sun, Taking Path

  20-11-2024 17:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Jack Colin Syron
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 8

  20-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 8. November 21, 2024.
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• Shedd workers approve union

  20-11-2024 16:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For Rachel Berey-Wingate, working at Shedd Aquarium is easy to love but hard to maintain—especially without a union.  “Shedd Aquarium tends to draw in a passionate workforce: people who care deeply about the animals, conservation, and public education,” she says. “But that can also lead to employers taking advantage of that passion.”  The 24-year-old started […]
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• The women who made Florence Price

  20-11-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Classical music, like so many art forms, requires two conditions: a steady flow of capital and preserving belief in the existence of singular, anachronistic genius. As scholar-pianist Samantha Ege makes clear in South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene, Florence Price is no exception. Price is now widely recognized as the […]
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