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• SAIC’s Palestine problem

  16-07-2026 23:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Savneet Talwar is a well-respected art therapist, a subject she has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for nearly 20 years. Talwar’s approach to art therapy is rooted in anti-colonial frameworks, social justice, and intersectional feminism. One former student told the Reader she chose SAIC’s art therapy program to study with […]
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• Getting Wilde with SALOMÉ

  16-07-2026 19:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  SALOMÉ, 7/19-7/31 at United Church of Rogers Park
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• Parts and sums

  16-07-2026 18:40 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. Movies are the sum of their parts, but those parts are also the sum of themselves. As my cinephilia continues to evolve, I find myself focusing on different things about the […]
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• Indigenous-inspired fermentation fraternity Piñatta comes out of retirement at the next Monday Night Foodball

  16-07-2026 18:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The 33-week-old anti–foie gras protest outside Lincoln Park’s Galit is a bonfire of the inanities that shows no signs of extinguishing. There are all sorts of productive measures for responding to such nontroversies. You can satirize. You can journalize. You can ignore. Or you could be moved to make something delicious, elegant, accessible, and ethically […]
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• Disaster rehearsal

  16-07-2026 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This piece was copublished with n+1 as part of City Mouse, a column by Morley Musick.  At 7 AM on a Saturday in September 2025, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport. Before the exercise began, the other volunteers and I gathered inside a retired […]
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