The People Issue
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 10
Issue of Dec. 8 – 14, 2016
Posted inBlogs
Chicago punk label Not Normal Tapes goes hard right out of the gate with the debut of its Infestational fest
Not Normal Tapes demonstrates its range and ambition with a three-day hardcore festival featuring Uranium Club, American Hate, Negative Scanner, the Bug, Tigress, and dozens more.
Posted inBlogs
Chance the Rapper’s Grammy nominations are a win for his community
You don’t have to care about the Grammys to care about Chance’s nominations—you only need to care about the young people of color he mentors and inspires.
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Rahm Emanuel had ‘frank, direct, and honest’ meeting with Donald Trump, and other Chicago news
Also, Alderman Anthony Beale is proposing major reforms to the honorary street-sign program.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How to recover from an abusive relationship
Tips for self-renewal, sexual and otherwise. Plus: binding arbitration on spit
Posted inNews & Politics
People Issue 2016: Nineteen Chicagoans in their own words
An Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a 12-year-old theater critic, an American Ninja Warrior stuntman, and more extraordinary Chicagoans
Posted inCity Life
Inside a puppeteer-novelist’s at-home creative workshop
Mary Robinette Kowal makes puppets and writes in a 1913 building in the Ukrainian Village.
Posted inBlogs
The Joffrey’s new Nutcracker is set in Chicago on the grounds of the 1893 World’s Fair
Christopher Wheeldon’s $4 million production grounds the fantasy in working-class life.
Posted inFilm
Manchester by the Sea is a study in grief, guilt, and responsibility
Casey Affleck stars as a man buckling under the weight of his traumatic past.
Posted inArts & Culture
This Way Outta Santaland, Home for Hanukkah With Bubbe, and six more new holiday stage shows
Santa Diaries veteran Mitchell Fain returns with a revue of his own.
Posted inBlogs
Remembering Bay Area producer Cherushii, a victim of the Ghost Ship fire
Chelsea Faith Dolan, aka Cherushii, was identified yesterday as one of the 36 people so far known to have died in the fire at the Ghost Ship arts space in Oakland.
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CPD top cop: Only ‘certain parts of the city’ are violent, and other Chicago news
Also, Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants Governor Bruce Rauner to publicly support Chicago’s sanctuary city status.