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Best of Chicago
Best method for a seasoned pothead to consume weed that isn’t smoking it
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Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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News & INVESTIGATIONS
’People of all generations healing together’
’Inmates are extremely manipulative‘
Locked up for cannabis, locked out of work
Columns & Opinion
Starship Chicago II has landed
Lemming city
Film
Review: Past Lives
Review: The Boogeyman
Doug Adams wrote the book on the Lord of the Rings scores
Arts & Culture
Keeping it real about musical marriages
Rhino Fest comes charging back
CLATA launches an incubator for new Latine voices
Obfuscation as survival
Music
Sugar Pie DeSanto returns to Chicago for a Blues Festival tribute
The Blues Festival’s unofficial headliner
Being the best Smiley he can be
CITY LIFE
Cronenberg, comedy, and weirdo music
Black high school lacrosse is here to stay
Food & Drink
The spice must flow with Tasting India and Friends at the next Monday Night Foodball
Logan Square’s Middle Brow Beer is now a winery, naturally
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