ESS’s Option music salon returns for spring with Jim O’Rourke, and Chicago rappers Saint Ripley and Osa North level up on new releases.
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Hyde Park postpunks the Imports could’ve been America’s Joy Division
The Imports lasted only long enough to release one single of their dark, mesmerizing postpunk.
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How Chicago made Joey Purp
Joey Purp’s new iiiDrops comes from a perspective shaped by neighborhoods on both sides of Chicago’s racial and economic divides.
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Steppenwolf Theatre’s little summer festival offers three plays worth developing
At First Look Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre’s little summer festival, the sitting is easy.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 10/9: Cinema Slapdown, Birgit Ulher & Eric Leonardson, and George Saunders
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, October 9
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Where things stand with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Where things stand with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
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Das Racist and A Tribe Called Red offer relief from the racism blues
We need “Indians From All Directions” now more than ever.
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
Chicagoans recommend the Rebuilding Exchange, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and more.
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The La Ronde Project fucks its way up the social ladder
The La Ronde Project fucks its way up the social ladder.
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“Cathy Don’t Go”: A religious cult’s lost new-wave gem
Perhaps some jangly power pop will convince you that bar codes are evil.
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How does Girls stack up against Sex and the City?
If Carrie Bradshaw lived in the real world.
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
In-the-know Chicagoans recommend Dollhouse Volume 1, Lakeview’s People Play Games, and HBO’s Girls