• Chicago Record Report: June 2025

    Bear Mace, Slaves of the Wolf  Formed in 2012, Bear Mace have grown into a formidable force in Chicago metal. Their third full-length builds on their gloriously filthy merger of old-school Florida death metal with Bolt Thrower grooves, with some of their tightest songwriting and playing yet. Bear Mace’s lyrical themes—the futility of war, the […]
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  • What’s next for CPS?

    June 18 was the last day on the job for Pedro Martinez, the long-embattled chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools. Only a week before he left, the Chicago Board of Education narrowly voted to appoint Mayor Brandon Johnson’s senior director of education policy, Dr. Macquline King, as interim CEO.   The leadership change comes after […]
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  • Best AI Hentai Generators of 2025

    AI-generated hentai sits at a provocative crossroads where fantasy meets technology, and desire is woven into each and every line of code. Once a niche corner of anime fandom, hentai has since evolved into a dynamic, digitally-driven genre shaped by both cultural taboos and creative experimentation. Now, with the rise of inexpensive, accessible generative AI […]
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  • Editor’s note: Everyone isn’t on vacation yet

    Summer heat (the sticky, disgusting, humid, and oppressive kind) reached Chicago as we were putting this issue together, each day of the week more on fire than the last.  It’s hard not to have parallel thoughts of how on fire the world around us has been this year, so living in a world of imagination […]
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  • ​​It’s all off the plancha when Mother Prepper returns to the next Monday Night Foodball

    Look up the adjective “scratch” in your favorite online dictionary. Cambridge, Collins, Dictionary.com—they’re all so unsatisfying. It’s always some form of “to start from the beginning haphazardly with crap materials.” Only Merriam-Webster comes close. On its fifth and final definition, just after “having no handicap” in golf. “Made with basic ingredients,” it says. But that […]
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  • Queering sound

    “hiccups" through 7/28 at ACRE Projects
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  • There is no God in the temple

    “Living Without the Gods" through 8/16 at South Asia Institute
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