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Tag: Vol. 44 No. 43
Issue of Jul. 23 – 29, 2015
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Chicago theater director Lisa Portes on dealing with actor freak-outs
Director Lisa Portes spearheaded the Carnaval of New Latina/o Work at DePaul happening July 23-25.
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Noisy NYC hip-hop group Ratking headlines a cheap show tomorrow at the Empty Bottle
See the excellent group play, and hear today’s 12 O’Clock Track, “Eternal Reveal.”
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Did you read about Ai Weiwei, Wayne Carson, and ice cream?
Also the Sandra Bland arrest tape, kale, and a loose lion in Wisconsin?
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Governor Rauner reiterates that he plans to keep his meeting schedule private
The governor responds to the Reader‘s story about his fight to conceal his schedules from the public.
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The campaign never ends in Illinois’s Tenth District
Which is worse—hypercompetition or gerrymandering?
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Dark crows fly for Valkyrie on the gig poster of the week
This week’s gig poster was created by local illustrator Scott R. Miller.
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An art exhibit on race in America generates an unexpected controversy
An art exhibit on race in America generates an unexpected controversy as protestors wonder, does a white artist have the right to comment on the black experience?
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Here comes another round of cuts for neighborhood schools
The foundation of Chicago’s school system loses more funding.
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Stargazing in the mud at Pitchfork
Stargazing in the mud at Pitchfork, plus new records on the way from RLYR and the duo of Ryley Walker and Bill MacKay
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Sean Baker’s Tangerine: Part screwball comedy, part ethnographic doc, and one of a kind
The iPhone-shot indie about transsexual prostitutes in LA is currently playing at the Music Box Theatre.
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Knuckle Puck do for pop-punk what elastic does for sweatpants
This south-suburban band, on their first Warped Tour to support their imminent debut LP, just want to make more room inside the genre they love.
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Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, and other former prisoners Donald Trump must not like
Would Trump really dislike all these famous former prisoners, many of whom went on to run countries?
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RIP Dieter Moebius, electronic-music composer and minor house-music influence
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “The Belldog,” off of Eno Moebius Roedelius’s album After the Heat.