“The True Meaning of Xmas” explores the reason for the season.
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Carousing with a Kool Katerpillar on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig posted was designed by local printmaker Josh Davis.
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In praise of Neil Breen, an auteur who finds new and exciting ways to be bad with every movie he makes
He may bewilder, but he is never, ever predictable.
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A teenager sports high fashion on a low budget
The high school senior is an avid thrifter developing her style through trial and error.
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Looks like Karen Lewis may have defeated Rahm after all
As I watched jubilant teachers, wearing union red, from the Acero charter school network celebrate the new contract they’d won after a four-day strike, I had a flashback to the way things used to be. The Chicago Teachers Unions were in the midst of their 2012 strike, which had shuttered all the public schools in […]
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Archive dive: the year 1971 in review
A look at the best, worst, and most memorable moments from the Reader‘s first year in business.
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Healthy Hood wants to make sure people on the south and west sides start living better and longer
Tanya Lozano’s nonprofit Youth Health Service Corps and fitness studio Healthy Hood make exercise classes and disease screenings available and affordable.
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A guitar transfigured into liquid cheese on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Ryan Duggan.
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Chicago rockers share their Mutiny memories, foggy and otherwise
Eulogies for the notoriously debauched punk bar from members of Sweet Cobra, Montrose Man, the Functional Blackouts, and more
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Buzzcocks front man Pete Shelley grappled with metaphysical questions as eloquently as he wrote about physical desire
He most perfectly captured this dichotomy between the carnal and the philosophical on the 1979 B side “Why Can’t I Touch It?”
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Agriculture offers a crop of style in the heart of Bronzeville
Co-founders Milton Latrell and Christopher Brackenridge stock “classic and timeless pieces” to evoke the neighborhood’s golden age in the 1920s.
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See it now: ‘The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold’
There’s time to catch “The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
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The Chicago hat is definitely the best part of The Princess Switch
It makes no sense, it has terrible accents, and it lasts forever even though it’s only supposed to be an hour and a half. So why do we love it so much?
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Reader announces Sujay Kumar as print managing editor
Previously of the Daily Beast and Fusion, culture and investigative reporter Sujay Kumar has been hired as managing editor for the print edition of the Reader. “The Reader has a rich history of doing two things I love: investigative work and culture reporting,” Kumar said. “I can’t wait to join the staff in Bronzeville and […]
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Archive dive: How Soul Train, the show that put black music on TVs across America, got its start in Chicago
Even after it moved to LA, Chicago kept its own version running daily for nearly a decade.