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The Studebaker gets ready to roll
The Fine Arts jewel box is the new home for Skates and Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me; plus a regional Tony Award for Court Theatre
The price of exposure
The Chinese Lady challenges our desire to see others from a distance.
ARTS & Culture
Dictator dictation
Omer Abbas Salem’s absurdist The Secretaries imagines a competition to be Hitler’s Girl Friday.
This bird has flown
Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird isn’t transformative enough.
Babes with blades
Athena examines the world of high school fencing with feminist flair.
Immigrant song
Notes & Letters is an earnest historical slice-of-life musical.
Film
The Janes is a call to action
A new documentary about the underground abortion collective prefigures current events.
Food & Drink
Dawn Lewis of D’s Roti & Trini Cuisine has a sweet hand
A self-taught home cook opens the city’s second Trinidadian restaurant.
Angelina Bastidas does Dominican food her way at Monday Night Foodball
Check out the Tournant chef’s abuelita-inspired menu for the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up series at the Kedzie Inn
News & Politics / Columns & Opinion
MAGA hate
Apparently, Illinois Republicans are too chicken to take a stand against white supremacy.
Bewjeweled butt plugs and the war on abortion
This is a column about worries.
My wife has ‘new relationship energy’ with her girlfriend
Agreeing to a one-sided open relationship is not the same as agreeing to one-sided polyamory.
Music
The Devil Bell Hippies: Chicago’s greatest avant-garde band that only kind of exists
Martin Billheimer helped create a special sort of chaos that involves anyone who says they’re a member—more an idea than an actual ensemble.
Emma Hospelhorn of Ensemble dal Niente releases a scintillating solo debut as Em Spel
Plus: Ernest Dawkins convenes a multidisciplinary ensemble to honor the late Timuel Black, and the Curls drop a new album while living in three time zones.
CITY Life
Out Here: a comedian walks into an art fair
Art writer Leah Gallant tells us about her hangout with comedian Jayson Acevedo.
The Sound Issue
An audiologist’s study of over-the-counter hearing aids, a guide to radiator noises, an investigation of ShotSpotter, and much more
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