The Mercury Theater presents The Color Purple without fashionable cuts.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 49
Issue of Aug. 29 – Sep. 4, 2013
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Tory Lanez’s shape-shifting flow and the allure of “Fourteen & 40’s”
There’s something strangely transfixing about the way the Texas-based MC sings the word “fourteen,” and it says a lot about how one Reader writer sometimes listens to rap music.
Posted inArts & Culture
Next to Normal and above par
Drury Lane stages Next to Normal, an award-winning musical about a middle-class family in extremis.
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Broken dreams and buggy windows on Discovery’s Amish Mafia
Season two kicks off with a pretty thorough recap of season one.
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Gig poster of the week: Chvrches in churches
This week’s featured gig poster was a collaboration between local designer Dan Polyak and Hood Internet member Steve Reidell.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 8/28: Model trains, American Variety 2, and Natural Gas
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, August 28
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Gossip Wolf: Names Divine take a left turn into desert rock
Names Divine take a left turn into desert rock; Keith Herzik weirds up the walls at Saki.
Posted inFilm
Wong Kar-wai’s kung fu biopic is an epic fail
The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai’s kung fu biopic, is an epic fail.
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The World’s End tops off the Cornetto trilogy with a snicker
Sci-fi comedy The World’s End tops off the Cornetto trilogy with a snicker.
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Beats, jams, and rhymes at the 2013 North Coast Music Festival
North Coast Music Festival has found its niche—one where Danny Brown, AlunaGeorge, and the Disco Biscuits fit side by side.
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The 24th African Festival of the Arts
The 24th African Festival of the Arts brings the likes of Otis Clay and Brandy to Washington Park.
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Danielle Chenette, Synthetic Ritual, and the rest of the weekend in visual arts
From minimalist photography to ancient professional artifacts, your guide to visual arts events in the area this weekend
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Aftershows: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival
2013 Chicago Jazz Festival aftershows: Kidd Jordan, the Rempis Percussion Quartet, and other late-night diversions
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Thursday and Friday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Jack DeJohnette and Wadada Leo Smith are just two of the highlights of the first two days of the 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival.
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Sunday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Robert Glasper Quartet and others close out Jazz Fest’s final day.