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• Remembering Jim Rinnert 1944–2025

  24-07-2025 21:32 via chicagoreader.com
  A slightly different version of this article originally ran in Windy City Times on July 23 and is republished here with permission of Windy City Times and the author. Jim Rinnert—a writer, artist, philanthropist, AIDS activist, and longtime art director of In These Times magazine, active for many years in Chicago’s theater and LGBT communities—passed […]
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• In Eddington, the real virus is what corrodes our common ground

  24-07-2025 19:34 via chicagoreader.com
  Eddington in wide release in theaters
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• ​​Panlasa is throwing a pulutan and pupu dance party at the next Monday Night Foodball

  24-07-2025 19:27 via chicagoreader.com
  When Roland Floro Calupe rose from his deathbed, he could neither smell nor see. Those were just two of the problems the chef faced after he suffered a violent allergic reaction to the antibiotics he’d been given after reporting to the emergency room with symptoms of pneumonia. That was October 2020, so they also thought […]
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• It’s a bird, it’s a plane

  24-07-2025 19:11 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. This week, I saw a four-and-a-half-hour movie. It’s not the longest film I’ve ever seen in a theater—that distinction goes to Wang Bing’s monumental 2002 documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of […]
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• The great divide between Chicago and the rest of Illinois

  24-07-2025 19:03 via chicagoreader.com
  In retrospect, while driving with my 12-year-old daughter from our home near Chicago to an empty cornfield in southern Illinois to see the 2017 total solar eclipse, I should’ve been a little more alarmed by the number of Confederate flags we counted along the way.  Four years later, when the pandemic seemed to have eased […]
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• Pomelo sorbet at Village Creamery

  24-07-2025 18:58 via chicagoreader.com
  In the summer, I like to bike from Chicago up to Village Creamery in Niles on the North Branch Trail. The woods feel like some sort of magic portal—one moment you’re in the trees, dodging deer, and the next you’re in the parking lot behind King Spa and Super H Mart. You exit the trail […]
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