Joseph’s first feature is a personal and multifaceted look at America’s broken prison system.
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 18
Issue of Feb. 9 – 15, 2017
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Candlelight dinners, rom-coms, and more ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day in Chicago
An Anti-Valentine’s Day haunted house, a 20s-themed dinner, and more ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day
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Young M.A, a new series at Kusanya Cafe, Slo ’Mo’s fifth anniversary, and more music stories from around the Web
Over the past week the Reader has collected these music stories that are still worth your time today.
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Chef Ben Lustbader of Giant makes bread with the ‘bacon of the sea’
Challenged to create a dish with dulse, Lustbader combines northern European and Asian flavors.
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CPD clears officers who stopped U.S. rep Bobby Rush, and other Chicago news
Also, Obama’s endorsement has been lucrative for alderman Sophia King’s reelection campaign.
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Ballet, bad dates, and ‘The Bowman Brothers Radio Hour’: Notes from the fringe at Rhinofest
The 28th iteration of Curious Theatre Branch’s annual festival continues through February 26.
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Dissecting Sublime Frequencies with the folks behind a recent book on the label
The editors and writers behind Punk Ethnography lead a reading and discussion Saturday afternoon at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
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Anti-Semitism in Chicago is nothing new
Irving Cutler, professor emeritus at Chicago State and author of The Jews of Chicago, looks back on local anti-Semitism
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Karen Finley strikes back against Trump and indifference—no chocolate smearing necessary
The performance artist has two one-woman shows at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre: Written in Sand and Unicorn Gratitude Mystery.
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Eat Trump’s immigration ban: Ten Chicago restaurants that wouldn’t exist in a white nationalist America
Kebabs, fahsa, and ghormeh sabzi will make America great again.
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Oscar-nominated short films arrive in Chicago this week
Reader critics consider the year’s animated, documentary, and live-action nominees.
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RIP Chicago rapper-singer Dinner With John, cofounder of Pivot Gang
Dinner With John, born Walter Long Jr. and formerly known as John Walt, was stabbed to death yesterday at age 24.
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Rahm tells a few Trump-like whoppers in his Stanford talk
In his much-quoted talk to Stanford business students, Mayor Rahm Emanuel stretched the truth about his handling of Chicago’s public schools.
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‘Simple Pleasures’ places sexuality and desire at the forefront of our political conversation
Is there anything more human than sex? From the very first time we feel maternal bonds as infants, to the years we spend falling in and out of romantic love, intimacy, desire, and attraction wiggle their way into seemingly every aspect of our lives. Sex is crucial to the understanding of the human race because, […]