The Chicago Reader debuted October 1, 1971—almost two years before DJ Kool Herc threw the very first hip-hop party in the Bronx in August 1973, nearly three years before the Ramones made their first appearance onstage at CBGB in August 1974, and more than five years before Frankie Knuckles first spun at the Warehouse in […]
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Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema
Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.
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Joan Crawford shines in five Hollywood classics
We boil down the iconic actress’s five-decade screen career into five must-see films.
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Five must-see African films
Five African film classics for this Black Panther moment.
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This Week’s Movie Action
This week’s movie action: the Music Box’s Chicago French Film Festival and Summer Music Film Festival, Terri, and more