Maintaining mental health in prison was already challenging before COVID-19 hit.
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Posted inMusic
Forty-two Reader-recommended releases for your Bandcamp Friday
Friday, May 6, is the 22nd Bandcamp Friday—a 24-hour period where the retailer passes its usual cut of sales revenue along to the independent labels and artists who sell their music and merchandise through the site. Bandcamp typically announces forthcoming Bandcamp Fridays in three-month chunks, and this Friday is the last one that’s been made […]
Posted inNews & Politics
CPS nurses are exhausted
Nurses say conditions remain dire more than a month after a standoff with the mayor.
Posted inOn Politics
MAGA science
Having spent the better part of the last week closely following the showdown between CPS and its teachers, I’ve concluded there’s no way Mayor Lightfoot truly believes the positions she’s been taking. Not unless the mayor—who ran as a progressive—has suddenly transformed into a Chicago version of Ron DeSantis, ’cause the stuff she’s been spouting […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Johnny MAGA
Having been exposed to the wit and wisdom of John Catanzara for a couple of years, I’ve reached a rather obvious conclusion about the president of the local Fraternal Order of Police. It would be better off for everybody—Catanzara included—if he just hurried up and moved to Florida, where he’ll probably be living soon enough, […]
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The Reader’s guide to Chicago in Tune
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events originally planned to celebrate the Year of Chicago Music in 2020. Then the pandemic diminished those festivities to the point that the city declared 2021 the Year of Chicago Music too. The ongoing surge of the Delta variant means the U.S. won’t be rid of the pandemic […]
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Meet the new boss, Joe Biden
And meet his bosses—corporations and the investor class.
Posted inArts & Culture
Alexis Hex casts spells—and yarn
The crafty, supernatural queen hosts the webseries Knitting’s A Drag.
Posted inFilm
Is Breaking Bad as good as we remember?
Seven years after the show’s finale, a rewatch reveals both problems and growth.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Smart Museum wants you to ‘Take Care’
The new exhibit explores caring in all forms and the emotional toll the act can take.
Posted inArts & Culture
Is a virtual arts degree worth it?
Chicago high school seniors prepare for collegiate arts programs amid pandemic
Posted inNews & Politics
That lockout you witnessed? It didn’t happen.
Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.
Posted inArts & Culture
SAIC’s graduate students take it to the web
How the class of 2020 learned to adapt for their final exhibition
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago’s drag performers serve amid COVID-19 restrictions
From digital performances to blinged out face masks, these queens are making it work.
Posted inArts & Culture
Plague time at the Art Institute
What it’s like to explore a familiar place under unfamiliar circumstances.