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• Elsa Harris has followed gospel into the orbits of pop stars

  09-02-2026 23:06 via chicagoreader.com
  In December, the Secret History of Chicago Music extolled the virtues of studying an LP’s liner notes to learn who’s involved in a recording. In this case, I was talking about Kitty Haywood, whose amazing pipes adorn some of my favorite Chicago LPs, notably Terry Callier’s What Color Is Love (1972) and Minnie Riperton’s Come […]
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• Celebrate one hundred years of Black History Month with local film programming

  09-02-2026 20:51 via chicagoreader.com
  Black history is fundamentally a part of Chicago history. In recent years, the City of Chicago and its cultural institutions have made gradual efforts to spotlight how Black history has shaped our geography, arts, and identity, while acknowledging and attempting to rectify the systemic racism that bleeds into all of it. This year marks the […]
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• Sex, sci-fi, Ibsen, and more

  09-02-2026 16:25 via chicagoreader.com
  Sometimes the best way to tell stories about humanity is through inanimate objects. This year, the eighth Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival looked backward to classics (Plexus Polaire’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House), into the future (Untitled Theatre Company No. 61 and Yara Arts Group’s adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left […]
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