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Fall Theater & Arts preview 2023
‘125 is feeling very good’
Setting the stage for queer stories
‘We don’t want to get bigger. We want to get deeper.’
Latest Stories
Review: Chasing Chasing Amy
High Fidelity gets the oral history treatment
In Chicago’s ‘top five,’ High Fidelity is a chart-topper
Review: Sex Education (Season 4)
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Dying while in the county’s care
Narcan for everyone
Chicago church part of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
Columns & Opinion
RICJ Racial Justice Writers’ Room Launches Cohort Two
The butterfly in your throat
Oppenheimer‘s Loyola connection
Film
CIFF’s killer lineup
Reeling returns
Review: A Haunting in Venice
Arts & Culture
Theo lights up a new Asian American musical with Baked!
Harlem stories
Collective power
Big songs, too much story
Never trust the tyrants
Music
Hammered dulcimer player Joel Styzens celebrates a lushly orchestrated new solo album
CITY LIFE
Hecho En Arts & Craft Fair, Mothers of Murdered Transpeople annual picnic, and more
First pitch: a journey through ceremony and baseball
Food & Drink
From Le Perroquet to STREET
The Melanin Martha celebrates the sweets of the south at the next Monday Night Foodball
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