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Lucia walking, Manasseh at MCA, Secret History of Chicago Music in person

by Taryn Allen and Salem Collo-Julin December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

Join Andersonville residents and celebrate the holidays the Swedish way, with St. Lucia and the Lucia Procession. Lucia girls, in white robes and candle crowns, were crowned at noon at the temporary Nordic House in the Wrigley building downtown. This afternoon a procession walks up Clark Street in Andersonville (starting at the Swedish American Museum, […]

Nick Alter and Rae Chardonnay, cofounders of the nightlife events organization Party Noire, surrounded by play balls

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B is for Bobcat, Brown N’ Loud Market, and ‘booty bounce’ in this week’s round-up

by Micco Caporale, Salem Collo-Julin and Kerry Reid October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

B is also for bountiful, and there’s no shortage of intriguing events to check out this week, whether you’re looking for serious onstage drama, a musical meditation on Chicago’s lakeshore environment, or a celebration of Black women, queer, trans, femme, and/or gender nonconforming people. Fri 10/22 Shattered Globe Theatre, in association with Interrobang Theatre Project, […]

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Lithuanian art-rock genius Vyto B resurfaces with a cross-generational collaboration

by Leor Galil November 13, 2019May 3, 2022

Chicago label Sanzimat International documents the Lithuanian diaspora with three new tapes, including one with Vyto B, creator of 70s outsider classic Tricentennial 2076.

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Psychedelic impresario Steve Krakow returns his eclectic Million Tongues Festival to the Empty Bottle

by Bill Meyer August 9, 2017August 18, 2021

This year’s Million Tongues includes Munehiro Narita of High Rise, fingerstyle guitarist Mark Fosson, and a few acts that played the first festival in 2004—Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Fursaxa, and Charalambides.