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Steeped in history
The ladies who sing from the back
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News & INVESTIGATIONS
“Voices from inside”
The news in Gary
Queer gun owners are ‘American as fuck’
Columns & Opinion
Spring awakening
Mr. Self-Promotion
Hello, Dalí
Film
The Harper Theater is putting up a fight
Review: John Wick 4
Review: Country Gold
Arts & Culture
Bed to crime to bed
Woven tales
Edra Soto’s Graft project comes to the Hyde Park Art Center
BCAM brings diversity to the circus
So you think you know dance
Music
Late jazz pianist Bob Dogan gets a tribute show at Elastic Arts
CITY LIFE
Perfection from the pieces
M is for Mariano’s
Food & Drink
With elegant dumplings and meaty mountains of rice, Helmand channels the cradle of Afghan culture
Better Boy reveals an easygoing, fine-dining future at the next Monday Night Foodball
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