When Girlpool plays live, all Cleo has is Harmony and all Harmony has is Cleo. The Philadelphia-based duo (by way of LA) consists of just two players: Cleo Tucker on guitar and Harmony Tividad on bass. Both sing in harmony, and neither one sees any need for a drummer. No matter the size of the […]
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Michael Powell’s last film, Age of Consent, features a young Helen Mirren
Shot in luscious color around the Great Barrier Reef, the final feature (1969) by British director Michael Powell (who with Emeric Pressburger codirected such classics as The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) returns to Chicago in a 35-millimeter print. James Mason stars as a frustrated artist who moves to a […]
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Embeya chef Mike Sheerin reimagines dumplings at Packed in Hyde Park
Former BLACKBIRD and current Embeya chef Mike Sheerin is out to prove that pretty much anything can go inside a dumpling. At his fast-casual counter-service dumpling-and-bao-haus Packed, set to open this month in Hyde Park at 1321 E. 57th, Sheerin draws from an arsenal of more than 50 different recipes. Dumplings and bao will rotate […]
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Sandra Cisneros lets her guard down in the memoir A House of My Own
Though The House on Mango Street is classified as fiction, it’s also a sideways glimpse into author Sandra Cisneros’s Chicago childhood. Cisneros based much of the book on her experiences growing up on Campbell Street in Humboldt Park. More than three decades after Mango Street was published, we get another look at Cisneros’s life in […]
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Prince protege Lianne La Havas is out for Blood
“We are unstoppable,” Lianne La Havas sings on the first track from her second album, Blood (Warner Bros.). So far she’s done nothing but prove herself right. The UK singer-songwriter and Prince protege has toured through Europe since Blood‘s release at the end of July, and now she’s about to jog through North America. Live, […]
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Chicago Humanities Festival asks what it means to be a citizen
“Citizens” had already been chosen as the theme of this year’s Chicago Humanities Fest by the time Jonathan Elmer took over as artistic director last February, but he think’s it’s a good choice. “It’s very, very appropriate for the moment,” he says. “I can’t think of a time in recent memory when the idea of […]