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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 13

  24-12-2024 20:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 13. December 26, 2024.
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• Rewind: Speed Wash

  24-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Grant Pick had a knack for the unusual. During his time as a Reader contributor, he documented residents of a north-side hotel as they fought against displacement, interviewed a local hypnotist who once loaned his services to Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, and profiled a stranger clad with dozens of keys (“the keys to my broken […]
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• Rewind: Punk is dead! Long live punk!

  24-12-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jessica Hopper has been an important national voice in feminist music criticism since the 2010s, when she became the first music editor at Rookie magazine and assembled teams of top-shelf talent at Pitchfork and MTV News. But 20 years ago, Hopper was still freelancing regularly for the Reader, and she wrote this lively scene report […]
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• Gia Margaret goes viral on the shoulders of a Chill Guy

  24-12-2024 16:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last year, Chicago singer-songwriter Gia Margaret issued Romantic Piano, her first release through mighty midwest indie label Jagjaguwar. I’ve been listening to Margaret since her 2018 debut album, the lush, contemplative There’s Always Glimmer, but since then she’s moved from its delicate arrangements into more overtly ambient music that’s even more sparse and hushed. Romantic […]
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• Review: Babygirl

  24-12-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Babygirl in wide release in theaters
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• Kat Sachs’s best in 2024 moviegoing

  24-12-2024 16:00 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. Well, fellow moviegoers, it’s the last column of 2024. I’d ask how we got here, but life careens forth on the same principle as cinema: movement and light. To understand how […]
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• All that’s fit to print

  24-12-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago”” through 3/29 at the Newberry Library
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• Review: Los Frikis

  24-12-2024 00:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Los Frikis in limited release in theaters
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