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• The midwestern charm of Charis Listening Bar

  08-01-2025 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the 1920s, jazz kissa, or listening bars, began popping up in Japan, and by the 1950s, they had become quite popular in the country. Kissa embraced the concept known commonly as hi-fi in the United States: to immerse oneself in music and truly listen to sound. At listening bars, music is typically played on […]
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• From the attic to the big screen

  08-01-2025 23:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ben Creech was shuffling around the Chicago Filmmakers attic when he stumbled upon a gem of a film, Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time. Creech, who is the head projectionist at Northwestern’s Block Cinema, was excited to see the 1977 short based on information found online. In it, director Peter Rose experiments with a […]
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• IT IS EASY TO KEEP A SECRET IF NO ONE WANTS TO LEARN IT

  08-01-2025 19:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Karl Michael Iglesias
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 14

  08-01-2025 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 14. January 9, 2025.
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• Walking with Baudelaire

  08-01-2025 16:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with artist Zachary Cahill about his latest book, Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Interdisciplinary artist Zachary Cahill’s fourth book Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook (Red Ogre Press) continues the artist’s long-standing inquiry into social contracts that gird imagination. Inspired by […]
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• A New Year’s resolution

  08-01-2025 16:18 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. Welcome back, moviegoers! I spent much of the holiday break not being a Chicago moviegoer, but an international one. My husband and I enjoyed a week abroad in Budapest following a […]
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• On display

  08-01-2025 15:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  More than 170 police surveillance cameras—including more than 40 in and around Chicago—broadcast real-time video and license plate data directly onto the open Internet, according to information uncovered by a security researcher named Matt Brown. Brown discovered that certain Motorola Solutions automated license plate readers (ALPR) used by law enforcement in multiple states were incorrectly […]
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• A private collection of 10,000 Chicago show tapes finds a public home

  08-01-2025 00:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago music fanatic Aadam Jacobs began recording local shows in the early 80s and kept at it obsessively for more than 30 years. He’s never sought to monetize this work, though artists have occasionally incorporated his recordings into licensed releases. The Replacements live album Not Ready for Prime Time, for instance, used some of Jacobs’s […]
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