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• Review: Naza

  13-10-2026 23:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Naza in limited release in theaters
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• Don Giovanni returns to the Lyric

  13-10-2026 22:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Don Giovanni, through 11/1 at Lyric Opera House
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• Yido relaunches Chicago’s craft makgeolli movement

  13-10-2026 22:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Peter Chung is labeling bottles of his first official batch of Yido makgeolli. He quickly determines it takes five and a half turns of the crank on the machine to properly attach the adhesives. He’s eight bottles in with about 67 to go. In 48 hours, Chung will formally debut the first expression of his […]
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• An oral history of Chicago nightlife’s most beloved visitor

  13-10-2026 21:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  No one has been to as many Chicago shows this century as Claudio Velez. For decades, he visited between 20 and 50 bars and venues each night (his own estimates have varied), mostly on the northwest side. He wasn’t trying to see any particular band or DJ. He was feeding the people who’d come out […]
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• Remembering Wm. Bullion 1963–2026

  13-10-2026 17:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I first saw Wm. Bullion (as he was known professionally) onstage in 2005. He was playing Polonius in the now-gone Building Stage’s inaugural production of Hamlet. As I wrote in my review for the Chicago Tribune, “Wm. Bullion plays Polonius with welcome understatement, making the old counselor sympathetic in his perpetual confusion, and also delivers […]
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• Chicago champion of storefront theater passes away at 63

  13-10-2026 17:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I first saw Wm. Bullion (as he was known professionally) onstage in 2005. He was playing Polonius in the now-gone Building Stage’s inaugural production of Hamlet. As I wrote in my review for the Chicago Tribune, “Wm. Bullion plays Polonius with welcome understatement, making the old counselor sympathetic in his perpetual confusion, and also delivers […]
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• V.V. Lightbody poured sweat into a serene new album

  13-10-2026 17:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Vivian McConnell hoped that making her third V.V. Lightbody album, Period Piece, would be more carefree than it was. “I had a migraine for, like, a year from being so stressed out about the record,” says the Chicago indie-pop multi-instrumentalist. Fortunately, you can’t hear that stress in Period Piece, whose sparkling, elegant arrangements expand on […]
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• Alien worlds

  13-10-2026 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “The Secondaries" through 10/25 at Ignition Project Space
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