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‘Shift: Music, Meaning, Context’ reveals music’s multitudes
Is there lead in there?
Polymathic percussionist Derf Reklaw deserved a better farewell
Asian American renegades
Faith and memory
In the ring with Shaw and Tunney
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Inside Vivaldi’s all-female orchestra
Microcinema, rock ’n’ roll photography, and more
News & INVESTIGATIONS
How the FBI used ‘Cop City’ protests to snoop on activists in Chicago
Worth the risk?
’People of all generations healing together’
Columns & Opinion
Starship Chicago II has landed
Lemming city
Film
Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Review: Shooting Stars
Review: Reality
Arts & Culture
A provocative Pippin
A ‘miraculous’ West Side Story
Samantha Irby is midwest fancy
Mean what you draw, draw what you mean
Breaking barriers onstage
Music
Avant-garde jazz genius Henry Threadgill drops in to talk about his new memoir
‘This is the kind of stuff I’ve looked for my entire time in America’
CITY LIFE
Cronenberg, comedy, and weirdo music
Black high school lacrosse is here to stay
Food & Drink
Be our guest with Bad Johnny’s Wood-Fired Pizza at the next Monday Night Foodball
The spice must flow with Tasting India and Friends at the next Monday Night Foodball
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