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Home » Berwyn

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Posted inMusic

The wrong kind of cowgirl on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin July 8, 2020August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist Steve Walters, proprietor of Screwball Press.

Posted inMusic

Day of the Dowd 2 aims to stock the shelves at Pilsen food pantry

by Kirsten Lambert November 1, 2019August 18, 2021

When Chicago drummer Gerald Dowd released his first full-length album, Home Now, in 2014, he threw a daylong release party with the tongue-in-cheek name Day of the Dowd. Over the course of 13 hours, Dowd sat in with 16 of the artists he’s accompanied during his long career, including children’s musician Justin Roberts and alt-country […]

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Fall awakening?

by Deanna Isaacs October 30, 2019August 18, 2021

Complaints from the production team of His Shadow have opened a painful discussion for Berwyn’s 16th Street Theater and head Ann Filmer.

Posted inFilm

Still ghoulin’ after all these years

by Salem Collo-Julin October 22, 2019August 18, 2021

A sven-tillating conversation with Chicago’s legendary horror host, Rich Koz, on 40 years of Svengoolie, celebrity fans, and BERWYN!

Posted inMusic

The 38th FitzGerald’s American Music Festival features longtime favorites and new faces

by James Porter June 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Every year since 1981, FitzGerald’s American Music Festival has celebrated the Fourth of July with a great lineup of roots music, and the 38th edition is no exception: it has plenty of highlights on its four days on three stages (the club, the smaller SideBar, and a tent outside). Chicagoan Robbie Fulks rolls in with […]

Posted inBlogs

This guy loved Mark E. Smith more than you ever did because he got a Mark E. Smith tattoo

by Aimee Levitt January 25, 2018August 18, 2021

And he lived in Berwyn.

Posted inMusic

Eighties power-pop wizard Julian Leal returns to the stage with a new backing band

by Steve Krakow August 1, 2017August 18, 2021

Support from HoZac and the Numero Group has helped resuscitate Julian Leal’s rock ‘n’ roll career—and may yet lead to new music.

Posted inArts & Culture

16th Street Theater brings Into the Beautiful North beautifully to life

by Tony Adler April 26, 2017August 18, 2021

Karen Zacarías’s stage adaptation of the beloved novel by Chicago writer Luis Alberto Urrea is sly and sharp—and faithful in its fashion.

Posted inBlogs

Democratic primary shows a gulf remains between Chicago’s black and Latino voters

by Steve Bogira March 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Hillary Clinton won Chicago’s black wards; Bernie Sanders dominated in the city’s Latino wards.

Posted inBlogs

Governor Quinn on parade . . . with Martin Sheen

by Mick Dumke October 10, 2014August 18, 2021

Pat Quinn campaigns for reelection with the help of a little star power.

Posted inBlogs

The Lemonheads play two shows in the suburbs this weekend

by Luca Cimarusti September 18, 2014August 18, 2021

The 90s alternative-rock legends play in Berwyn and Oak Park.

Seattle singer-songwriter Zoe Muth plays on Saturday at 2 PM in the club.
Posted inMusic

FitzGerald’s 33rd annual American Music Festival

by Peter Margasak July 1, 2014August 18, 2021

The American Music Festival’s best lineup in a decade features old standby Billy Joe Shaver and rising stars Zoe Muth and John Fullbright.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Sculpture With Everything Including the Kitchen Sink

by Steve Bogira June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

Pots and pans bedeck this artwork on a Brighton Park boulevard.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Mon 3/3: A jambalaya cook-off, Movieoke, and Fred Frith

by Taylor Tolbert March 3, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, March 3

Posted inBlogs

I Saw You, illustrated: A sax player at a sausage shop

by Chicago Reader November 8, 2013August 19, 2021

Jason Wyatt Frederick illustrates how the sausage is made—with a saxophone!

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