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Posted inNews & Politics

Reasonable doubt

by Maya Dukmasova August 4, 2021May 9, 2022

James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.

Posted inMusic

Little-known Chicago blues-rock wizard Zach Prather has found his crowd in Europe

by Steve Krakow September 24, 2019August 18, 2021

Thanks in part to a long partnership with the late Cash McCall, Prather has played with the likes of Willie Dixon, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and Etta James.

Posted inFilm

Remembering Agnès Varda with a festival of her short films

by Cody Corrall July 10, 2019August 18, 2021

“You think of Agnès Varda as this woman going places that not a lot of filmmakers were going at that time.”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The many lives of Alderman Danny Solis

by Ben Joravsky February 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.

Posted inBlogs

Let us now praise Elvis Presley and his movies

by Aimee Levitt and Jamie Ludwig January 8, 2019August 18, 2021

It’s the King’s birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!

Posted inNews & Politics

Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul

by Kerry Cardoza September 21, 2018August 18, 2021

“We’re not from Humboldt Park or Lincoln Park, we’re Puerto Ricans.”

Posted inBlogs

Rapper Vic Mensa: Chicago’s newest Black Panther?

by Ryan Smith August 28, 2018August 18, 2021

At this past weekend’s “anti-bait-truck” shoe giveaway, the 25-year-old rapper declared himself a revolutionary.

Posted inArts & Culture

Highlights and lowlights from the eighth annual Chicago Fringe Festival

by Reader staff September 6, 2017August 18, 2021

Jeff Fort and Fred Hampton: A Revolutionary Love Story is among the standouts at this northwest-side showcase for “the untried and the weird.”

Posted inBlogs

A Q&A with filmmaker Jamal Joseph on Chapter & Verse and the prison industrial complex

by Leah Pickett February 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Joseph’s first feature is a personal and multifaceted look at America’s broken prison system.

Posted inBlogs

A federal indictment of a Chicago cop adds a new pressure point for police reform

by Maya Dukmasova September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

The U.S. attorney’s suit against Officer Marco Proano is just one of a host of legal challenges facing CPD.

Posted inBlogs

After gay marriage, whither exquisite anguish and romantic tragedy?

by Michael Miner January 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Is the price of progress a loss of artistic inspiration?

The Butler
Posted inFilm

The Butler: The anti-Gump

by Ben Sachs August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.

Tim'm West performing at the Center on Halsted on December 15
Posted inMusic

Tim’m West and the masculine mystique

by B. David Zarley February 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Tim’m West has shown that there’s more than one way to be a black gay man.

Posted inBlogs

Now playing: the Sundown in K-Town documentary series

by Ben Sachs July 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale

My Kind of Town sets up CSI-esque legal intrigue
Posted inArts & Culture

Bad cop, bad cop

by Justin Hayford May 16, 2012August 19, 2021

My Kind of Town and The Whole World Is Watching, look at ugly chapters in Chicago history

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