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• Aria Pedraza launches the Midwest Rave Culture Archive with a Ping Tom Park party

  01-07-2025 23:48 via chicagoreader.com
  On Saturday, July 5, the brand-new Midwest Rave Culture Archive will host a launch party and fundraiser in Chinatown’s Ping Tom Memorial Park. The daylong event, called Hometown Heroes, features a wild array of dance DJs, including Redline regular Kula, U.S. drum ’n’ bass pioneer RP Smack, Teklife members DJ Manny and DJ Phil, and […]
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• Rest is part of the revolution

  01-07-2025 22:03 via chicagoreader.com
  June has come and gone, and with it, one of the busiest times of year for drag and burlesque performers. Between Pride events and summer kickoff parties, my peers and I have been bustling the past month. I can’t count the number of times I bumped into a friend at a show who could only […]
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• Shakshuka bun at Cafe Yaya

  01-07-2025 21:47 via chicagoreader.com
  The spicy North African dish of tomato poached eggs is one of the world’s greatest hangover remedies. And like its southern Italian cousin—eggs in purgatory—it’s fairly simple to prepare. Even so, first thing in the morning, one doesn’t always have the steady hands required to saute onions and peppers with spices and tomato sauce, then […]
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• This woman’s work

  01-07-2025 20:54 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. It’s the summer of Naruse. There was a Mikio Naruse film, Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935), at the Nitrate Picture Show earlier this month, and then the Chicago Film Society […]
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• An intimate look at Beijing

  01-07-2025 20:06 via chicagoreader.com
  In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviews the work of Chicago-based artist Tianjiao Wang. Tianjiao Wang Subjects […]
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• Angels in America resonates with our times

  01-07-2025 18:22 via chicagoreader.com
  Angels in America, through 9/7, Invictus Theatre at Windy City Playhouse
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