Jordan Wimby, aka The Melanin Martha, returns to Monday Night Foodball tonight with a prix fixe plate of “classic and reimagined” soul food, including crispy fatback and microgreens and a sweet fried buffalo chicken thigh. Advance orders are sold out, but a limited amount of food will be available for walk-in ordering. Get there early if […]
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Too many incredible Latino films for one eager critic
The Chicago Latino Film Festival poses a problem—a good problem, but a problem nevertheless. There are simply too many interesting programs to see, and as any cinephile is loath to admit, we’re but singular bodies unable to be in more than one place at the same time.
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The Chicago Flamenco Festival 2020 showcases the allure of a quintessentially Spanish art form
Few forms of music and dance embody raw emotion as exquisitely as flamenco. This formidable and quintessentially Spanish art form fuses elements from Jewish, Arab, and Roma cultures and distills the essence of grief, tragedy, fear, and joy into every note, gesture, and stomp. Hosted principally by the Instituto Cervantes, the first half of the […]
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How Gene Siskel Film Center will screen movies while they’re closed for renovations
The local film organization will present four site-specific screenings in December as changes are made to their State Street location.
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This month get a free crash course in Peruvian cinema at the Instituto Cervantes
Noting an ongoing film series at the city’s Latino cultural institute
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Never trust any kid over 30
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival celebrates 30 years of programming.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 6/3: Herbcraft and Moonrises, Alleys and Ruins, and an Informal Dance Revue
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, June 3
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Flaming flamenco
New York-based flamenco troupe A Palo Sec performs “Rasgos Flamenco”
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Diego Amador opens this year’s Chicago Flamenco Festival
Pianist and singer Diego Amador kicks off the Chicago Flamenco Festival 2012 on Thursday night
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Afinidades
Jorge Perrugoria and Vladimir Cruz’s psychosexual drama Afinidades screens Tuesday 6/28 at Instituto Cervantes.
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Instituto Cervantes hosts 140 drawings by Spanish artists
Pliny the Elder was thinking of Alexander the Great’s official painter, Apelles, when he coined the phrase “No day without a line.” The artist supposedly never let the sun set without making at least one thin stroke. The quote, in Latin, forms the title of a new exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes. Featuring 140 works […]
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Chicago Latino Film Festival, Week Two
FESTIVAL Chicago Latino Film Festival Presented by the International Latino Cultural Center, the 27th Chicago Latino Film Festival continues Friday through Thursday, April 8 through 14, at Instituto Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio; Landmark’s Century Centre, 2828 N. Clark; and Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, 1212 E. 59th. Tickets for most screenings are $11, and a […]
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Chicago Latino Film Festival
FESTIVAL Chicago Latino Film Festival Presented by the International Latino Cultural Center, the 27th Chicago Latino Film Festival runs Friday, April 1, through Thursday, April 14, at Instituto Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio; Landmark’s Century Centre, 2828 N. Clark; River East 21, 322 E. Illinois; and Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, 1212 E. 59th. Tickets for […]