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Son Little
Posted inMusic

Son Little mixes emotions and musical styles on Like Neptune

by Jamie Ludwig December 6, 2022December 5, 2022

By the time singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Earl Livingston released his first full-length album as Son Little in 2015, he’d already worked with genre-bending artists such as the Roots and RJD2 and produced the 2015 Mavis Staples EP Your Good Fortune (he also wrote its first two tracks). In keeping with the musical openness of […]

Simon Joyner
Posted inMusic

Simon Joyner shows all sides of the story on his latest LP

by Bill Meyer July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

If things look bleak to you, Omaha-based singer-songwriter Simon Joyner won’t contradict you, but he might complicate your understanding of the darkness. The narrator of “Caroline’s Got a Secret,” the first cut on his new LP, Songs From a Stolen Guitar (Grapefruit), seems blind to the fact that the confidence he’s breaking involves Caroline’s suicidal […]

Posted inArts & Culture

It’s not just personal, it’s policy

by Bobby Vanecko July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

Rates of suicide have skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and mental illness is more prevalent today than ever before. However, the societal causes of mental illness are still not widely recognized, so people who suffer mental illness are often treated as though the problem is entirely their own to solve. A new novel, released […]

drawing of Megan Kirby with glasses sitting with Santa Claus
Posted inCity Life

Waving at Santa from a rat-infested train tunnel

by Megan Kirby December 30, 2021December 30, 2021

My secret Chicago talent is that I always catch the Chicago Transit Authority’s Holiday Train. All over the city, the train finds me. Commuting home from work. Meeting my friends at a dive bar. On my way to a show. If the ride occurs between Thanksgiving and Christmas, chances are I’m going to pull up […]

Posted inColumns & Opinion

An ex-coworker keeps sexting my man

by Dan Savage June 23, 2020August 18, 2021

You’re “fine” with flirting, but she won’t stop blowing up his phone.

Posted inCity Life

The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 15 and 16

by Reader staff April 4, 2020August 18, 2021

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.

Posted inMusic

After a bout of self-doubt, Chicago rapper Kembe X re-emerges with a star’s brightness

by Leor Galil January 31, 2020August 18, 2021

In an October interview with Lyrical Lemonade, Chicago rapper Kembe X (born Dikembe Caston) described a rocky patch in 2017 that brought him to a breaking point in his career. He’d been talking to R&B singer Kehlani, opening up about his lack of confidence and disinterest in his creative direction, and she asked him if […]

Posted inFilm

Diagnosis: Boring uses surreal comedy to demonstrate the distortional logic of depression

by Brianna Wellen December 20, 2018August 18, 2021

The Chicago-made webseries takes a radically different view of mental illness.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Gay, middle-aged, and lonely as hell

by Dan Savage September 12, 2018August 18, 2021

Dan Savage advises a trio of late bloomers.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Can sex get better after marriage?

by Dan Savage July 4, 2018August 18, 2021

Dan gets an earful from people whose sex lives improved after the event.

Posted inArts & Culture

An Andersonville shopkeeper redefines retail therapy

by Maya Dukmasova April 12, 2017August 18, 2021

At Martha Mae, Jean Cate fights her demons by inviting customers into a total work of art.

Posted inBlogs

Punk Talks works to change the conversation about musicians and mental health

by Sean Neumann March 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Social worker Sheridan Allen and her organization Punk Talks hold a fund-raising concert in Chicago this month to help connect DIY musicians with mental-health care.

Posted inArts & Culture

A brief interview with Andrew Solomon

by Nissa Rhee April 22, 2016August 18, 2021

In advance of his appearance at the Chicago Humanities Festival, the writer speaks about travel and his recently released essay collection Far and Away: Reporting From the Brink of Change

Posted inArts & Culture

My annual Valentine’s Day depression

by Erika Price February 11, 2016August 18, 2021

Heartache arrives every February 14—and it’s my stupid dead dad’s fault.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Old-fashioned romantic wants to torture your gonads

by Dan Savage August 13, 2015August 18, 2021

Dan Savage seeks expert advice from a specialist in cock-and-ball torture, and gets some advice of his own.

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