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• Nightclubbing

  18-12-2025 21:14 via chicagoreader.com
  “Fruity Nights" through 1/11 at Heaven Gallery
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• Twilight Kitchen cooks like you’re a rock star at the next Monday Night Foodball

  18-12-2025 21:12 via chicagoreader.com
  Christopher Sullivan is not willing to go down in flames to feed you. But he will push himself to the edge. That’s what happened when he was grilling pork chops for some one hundred musicians, crew, and event staff at the Sylvan Esso show during last summer’s Out of Space festival in Skokie.   “It was […]
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• Hannah Sandoz, DIY touring musician

  18-12-2025 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Hannah Sandoz (they/he) is a 25-year-old touring musician, content creator, and audio engineer. In 2021, Sandoz graduated from the Technology in Music and Related Arts (TIMARA) program at Oberlin Conservatory, and they moved to Chicago that same year. They’ve toured most years since then, and their 2025 tour to the west coast and back covered […]
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• The Reader is going monthly

  18-12-2025 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Some years feel like several; this year at the Reader felt like a decade. Only two weeks into 2025, we learned the paper was in a severe budget crisis. Six of our colleagues—including two nonunion members of the editorial team—were laid off the day we found out.  For the next few months, we worried every […]
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• Pharrell Williams Says He ‘Despises’ Politics: ‘It’s Not Real’

  18-12-2025 05:30
  Pharrell Williams doesn’t want to “pick a side” when it comes to politics.
  The singer, songwriter, and producer opened up about his stance on politics during the 5th annual Black Ambition Demo Day.
  “I hate politics,” Williams said. “Like, despise them. It’s a magic trick. It’s not real. I don’t believe in either side. Because I think when you pick a side, you are inadvertently supporting division.”
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