As one of the few people I know who has watched Impeachment, I’m still struggling to figure out why I’m so relatively alone in watching it. Obsessively watching it, I might add. As in having eagerly awaited every new episode, and then rewatching key scenes. Impeachment: American Crime Story being Ryan Murphy’s ten-part series on […]
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Azita has more to say and more ways to say it
For Glen Echo, Azita Youssefi’s first album in more than eight years, she played and recorded every instrument herself.
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Bending the arc of theatrical liberation
Thinking about The Boys in the Band, Broadway, and Chicago
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Strawberry Jacuzzi’s Shannon Candy on bratty punks who love drag and snacks
Current musical obsessions of Strawberry Jacuzzi’s Shannon Candy, Rahim Salaam of the What About Chicago?! podcast, and Reader staff writer Leor Galil
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Watching Fox’s Scream Queens is a unique brand of torture
Racist, misogynist, homophobic—this send-up of the slasher genre is more horrible than horror.
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A Chicago-style hot dog cocktail, courtesy of a California Clipper bartender
Challenged to create a cocktail with celery salt, the California Clipper’s Anthony Mitchell puts it both in and on the drink—in the form of a mini Chicago-style hot dog.
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A cocktail made with Logan Theatre popcorn butter courtesy of a Crown Tap Room bartender
Challenged to create a cocktail with movie theater popcorn butter, Ryan Murphy of Crown Tap Room has some disasters before settling on a riff on the Ramos Fizz.
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Thanks to bone marrow, a Charlatan bartender learns to like Bloody Marys
Challenged to create a cocktail with bone marrow, Alex Enochs of Charlatan creates a stock with it and puts it in a Bloody Mary.