P.S. You Sound Like Someone I Can Trust collects correspondence between students on the north and south sides of Chicago.
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 15 – 21, 2017
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E.L. Doctorow’s ‘Wakefield’ should have stayed on the page
Robin Swicord’s literary adaptation is a dud.
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Pride Fest, Father’s Day, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
W. Kamau Bell, Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, Gold Coast Arts Fair, and more happenings from June 16-18
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North Carolina guitarist Shane Parish straddles free improv and traditional rural music
Asheville guitarist Shane Parish comes back to Chicago for a solo show in support of two recent duo albums.
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Erin Osmon’s Jason Molina: Riding With the Ghost follows the rise and fall of the beloved singer-songwriter
On Saturday at Quimby’s, Reader writer Erin Osmon reads from her first book, Jason Molina: Riding With the Ghost.
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Rauner calls ten-day special legislative session before the end of the fiscal year, and other Chicago news
Also, Cook County will stop prosecuting some traffic offenses due to lack of resources.
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Queer doom duo Vile Creature don’t have time for ‘melted dickwads’
Vile Creature make a lot of metal for just two people, with great melodies and a supremely satisfying guitar tone—and they play Chicago on Friday night.
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Pizzeria Bebu turns out pie-in-the-sky good pizza
A couple of One Off Hospitality vets have created a crust that can only be described on its own terms.
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‘An Evening at the Pekin Theatre’ re-creates the country’s first black-owned music hall
Cultural historians, ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson, and the Illinois Humanities Council resurrect Chicago’s Pekin Theatre, which opened at 27th and South State in 1904.
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Esoteric Dance Project’s Perspective keeps things simple, funny, and relatable
Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker’s company brings three world premieres to Links Hall.
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Black Lives Matters sues Chicago Police Department over reform consent decree, and other news
Also, Lin-Manuel Miranda might star in a Chicago Hamilton performance during the last week of August.
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Who’s the octopus in Takashi Murakami’s ‘The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg’?
A new exhibit of the Japanese artist’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art is a dizzying depiction of the current cultural moment.
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Ostensibly a comedy, Victory Gardens’ Native Gardens terrifies
A poisonous dispute over two feet of dirt
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Daily traffic violence harms more people than vehicle attacks
The assaults in Europe and New York City were terrifying, but routine crashes are a bigger problem.