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• Lowering the curtain

  16-07-2025 22:56 via chicagoreader.com
  May 2, 2025, was a much anticipated date for the Harris Theater. That night—a Friday night—was the U.S. premiere of a revival of Scott Joplin’s sole surviving opera, Treemonisha. Despite Joplin’s legacy as a composer, Treemonisha had nearly disappeared from history. No copies survive of Joplin’s original orchestrations, only a 1911 score for piano and […]
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• Editor’s note: Small independent publications are essential to local news

  16-07-2025 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  Last week, I attended the 2025 AAN conference in Madison, Wisconsin. AAN, formerly known as the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, is an international consortium of media outlets who, like the Reader, have roots in community and alternative news with many committed to embodying progressive politics and reporting on arts and culture in their local areas. […]
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• Sunday best, every day

  16-07-2025 21:35 via chicagoreader.com
  I have a confession to make. Even though I’ve always loved fashion—and firmly believe in the reinvigorating powers of a great outfit—I often dress like I just got yanked out of bed in the middle of a fire. I’m not proud of it.  That’s why I’m impressed by people who manage to look effortlessly put […]
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• Labor and Looney Tunes

  16-07-2025 20:29 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. No, I haven’t forgotten about my resolution to try to see, on average, one movie per day in theaters. To be honest, I’ve lost track, but that isn’t to say I’ve […]
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• Arousal meets art in the films of Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

  16-07-2025 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  We’ve all heard the jokes: “I read it for the articles.” “I watched it for the plot.” They echo a recognizable dissonance: the desire to engage with so-called dirty material cloaked in a gesture of respectability, claiming artistic interest rather than arousal. That very tension between arousal and art is where Arthur J. Bressan Jr. […]
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• Mintza abides by the food of northern Kerala

  16-07-2025 19:23 via chicagoreader.com
  When Sajadmon Nechiyan was looking for a space for his third restaurant, he chose the unlikely location of Devon Avenue, just a few blocks east of Western. The neighboring restaurants are “majority Hyderabad cuisine,” says Nechiyan, who opened the storefront Mintza in January. “But they don’t have any unique, different cuisine. So that’s why we […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 41

  16-07-2025 17:33 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 41. July 17, 2025.
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• CPD, CTA expand surveillance

  16-07-2025 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  CPD, CTA expand surveillance  On July 10, Chicago police brass, in partnership with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), touted a beefed-up surveillance center that grants authorities real-time access to tens of thousands of cameras aboard buses and trains, on platforms across the city, and even in a handful of suburban locations. The Chicago Police Department […]
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• Halston, Liza, and Liz

  16-07-2025 16:23 via chicagoreader.com
  Queen for a Day, through 8/3, Hell in a Handbag at Bramble Arts Loft
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• Upper-crust absurdity

  16-07-2025 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  If A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Great Gatsby were given the Dadaists’ cut-up treatment to create a script for a troop of acid-dosed hooligans, you’d have Merry We: An Elite Comedy (written by Caleb Roitz and Stephen Patterson and directed by Roitz). Robber baron–type Johnny Babcock (Ambrose Cappuccio) invites his longtime friend and obsessive […]
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• Circus arts and boyhood dreams

  16-07-2025 15:55 via chicagoreader.com
  Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams, through 8/3 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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• Workplace clowns

  16-07-2025 15:42 via chicagoreader.com
  Big Time Toppers, through 7/26, Theatre L'Acadie at Redtwist Theatre
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• Enchanted kingdom

  16-07-2025 15:29 via chicagoreader.com
  Beauty and the Beast, through 8/2 at Cadillac Palace Theatre
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• Who built the Chicago skyline?

  16-07-2025 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  “Steelmakers" is on view at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
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• Will this be the night Cocojoey finally plays a keyboard solo while crowd-surfing?

  16-07-2025 06:19 via chicagoreader.com
  Underground Chicago pop experimentalist Cocojoey (aka Joey Meland) recently wrapped a two-week tour supporting their new album, Stars, and on Saturday, July 19, they play their first local show since returning home. An irreverent, unpredictable blur of frothy City Pop euphoria, bleak black-metal pummeling, and digitally processed freak-outs, Stars charmed Reader music editor Philip Montoro […]
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