It’s 1980, and I am unemployed. After giving up a staff writer job at the esteemed St. Petersburg Times to return to Chicago, I have found myself, as the saying goes, shit out of luck. Chicago has gone from four daily newspapers to two, and is awash in unemployed journalists, all more experienced than me. […]
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Celebrating women’s solidarity through culture on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago-via-Indiana photographer and designer Adeleine Prairie Sinsabaugh.
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Missing the jackpot
The governor signs a revised Chicago casino bill, with cuts to city and state shares of profits.
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German pop princess Kim Petras gets dark and campy with a Halloween-themed mixtape
Kim Petras opens for South African singer-songwriter Troye Sivan at the Chicago Theatre this weekend.
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Chicago International Film Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Pop-Up Magazine’s Fall Issue tour and other goings on Mon 10/15-Thu 10/18.
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Indivisible Chicago’s Blue Wave Rave uses improv to mobilize political action
“Improv actors are like the best canvassers ever!”
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Punctuation geniuses Migos put exclamation points on hip-hop
The chief innovation Atlanta trio Migos have brought to rap music is using words as punctuation. (Period). Quavo, his cousin Offset, and his nephew Takeoff don’t merely rap or sing or rap-sing, they pepper their bars with stray words or onomatopoetic sounds that aren’t just stylistic quirks or sound effects (boom), but integral components of […]
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Atlanta rap trio Migos have weathered a career path as loopy as their performances
Atlanta rap trio Migos have experienced a lifetime of music industry ups and downs in less than half a decade. Rappers Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff first made it through the buzz of their breakthrough 2013 sensation, “Versace,” surviving a Drake remix that felt less like a cosign than a jump on something hot. They held […]
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How not to be an offensive jerk this Halloween
Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre.”
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One year in, the Chicago Cultural Plan is already receiving plaudits
What has the Chicago Cultural Plan actually done?
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At the Art Institute’s new exhibit “Art and Appetite,” you are what you paint yourself eating
What’s the purpose of painting your food? “Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine,” opening tomorrow at AIC, tries to answer that.
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Threewalls’s Chicago Art Farm
Can high culture be marketed like agriculture? Also: Jack Zimmerman makes a CD of his stories.
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30 years on, sevens are still clashing
The enduring power of Culture’s “Two Sevens Clash.”
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Why marriage may be on the way out
Ask an anthropologist for the real story on marriage sometime. It won’t offer aid and comfort to anyone much.