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• Get collared with Piñatta at the next Monday Night Foodball

  28-05-2025 23:38 via chicagoreader.com
  You never forget your first hamachi kama. Me? It was a dozen years ago at the late, great Yusho in Avondale. I was sitting at the bar minding my own uni egg rolls when Chef Matthias Merges turned from the expo and summarily deposited a plate in front of me. “Trust me,” he said, and […]
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• The Radiants helped drive the shift from doo-wop to soul

  28-05-2025 19:27 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago’s famed soul-music scene produced beloved groups (the Impressions, the Chi-Lites) and legendary labels (Chess, Vee-Jay), and that’s reason enough to remember soul’s roots in doo-wop. Doo-wop hasn’t aged as well as soul—it hasn’t produced an answer to neosoul, for instance—but it was one of the genres that fed into rock ’n’ roll. In the […]
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• Review: Tornado

  28-05-2025 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  Tornado in limited release in theaters
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• Review: Mountainhead

  28-05-2025 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  Mountainhead streaming on Max
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• Sesame Street meets Seinfeld on Trenchies TV

  28-05-2025 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  Episode one of Trenchies TV opens with Logan Ludwig, lead singer of Chicago indie-rock five-piece the Trenchies, playing a letter game with puppet Tuggy the Tiger. The background music is playful, reminiscent of a children’s show. The letter game involves picking up paper letters and singing words that start with each letter, causing those objects […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 34

  28-05-2025 18:34 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 34. May 29, 2025.The post Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 34 appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• Arts and crafts

  28-05-2025 18:11 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. What do Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985) and Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) have in common? Not much, except that they’re almost the same length—the former is two […]
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• Bombón at Cadinho Bakery & Cafe

  28-05-2025 17:52 via chicagoreader.com
  McKinley Park’s Cadinho Bakery & Cafe is inspired by the culinary delights of Portugal. But the idea for its mouthwatering bombón espresso drink—technically of Spanish origin—actually came from a visit that proprietor Alejandra Rivera made to her hometown of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The shot-sized beverage is made by carefully layering milk foam, espresso, and condensed milk. […]
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• DOJ investigates ”racist” hiring practices at City Hall

  28-05-2025 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  DOJ probes Johnson admin The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration for allegedly making hiring decisions “solely on the basis of race.” The federal civil rights probe, launched under Attorney General Pam Bondi, came after Johnson highlighted key Black officials in his cabinet at a May 18 event. “The deputy […]
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• Relearning modes of music production

  28-05-2025 16:31 via chicagoreader.com
  “(un)learning Center” through 6/1 at Comfort Station
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• Building community—one puppet at a time

  28-05-2025 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago Puppet Lab Showcase, 5/29-6/1 at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
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• Is SAIC trying to stifle free speech?

  28-05-2025 15:55 via chicagoreader.com
  Kelly Xi became an artist by chance. As an undergraduate, her focus was initially on molecular biology. But a scheduling conflict landed her in a Photoshop class instead of the molecular genetics class she’d intended to take, and her life course was forever changed. “From that first interface I was like, ‘Oh I could do […]
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