The Light Times Club is a warmly nostalgic tribute to a disappearing part of Chicago nightlife: the working-class watering hole.
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Joe Swanberg’s Easy is easily the most north-side-centric Chicago show of all time—but that’s not so terrible
The writer-director’s personal portrait of the city fulfills the contract of auteur television.
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Easy is spot-on Chicago
Joe Swanberg’s new Netflix series is for everyone, but there’s a little something extra for locals.
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Street artist Don’t Fret has turned Wicker Park’s Gold Star into a ‘conceptual watering hole’ called the Light Times Club
Get a look at the street artist’s latest project, a celebration of Chicago dive-bar culture.
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Why is Don’t Fret painting a building that’s about to be torn down?
The Chicago street artist turns an old hardware store into a pop-up gallery for one night only.
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Street art photographers ‘gram the scene
One step ahead of graffiti removal crews, these Instagrammers preserve the city’s street art on their feeds.
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Street artists peek out from the shadows
Get to know some of Chicago’s mysterious, prolific street artists.
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Patrick Hull’s journey from the boardroom to the gallery
Vertical Gallery’s Patrick Hull traded in a marketing career to open a street art gallery.
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Show us your . . . skate decks
Vertical Gallery’s newest group show, “Deck the Halls,” enlisted artists to use skate decks as their blank canvas.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 4/6: Global Activism Expo, Flatlanders, and “The Young and the Restless”
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, April 6, 2013
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 2/11: Brett Naucke, Awkward Love, and “Love in the Time of Online Dating”
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Monday, February 11, 2013