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Tag: Vol. 47 No. 28
Issue of Apr. 19 – 25, 2018
There’s something ugly about I Feel Pretty
In the new Amy Schumer comedy, the road to empowerment leads straight to the cash register.
How dangerous are cows?
The Straight Dope: Should you get a moo-ve on if a cow comes charging your way?
Donizetti’s Il Pigmalione and Rita demonstrate two versions of love
And there are clowns.
Natural Affection hints at cracks in America’s postwar idyll
Eclipse Theatre kicks off its season-long tribute to William Inge with one of his lesser works.
If you can’t smoke weed right now, you might as well read about it
Cannabis, marijuana, reefer, mary jane, weed, pot, bud, herb, ganja, we’ve covered it all.
Chicago-based Kitchen Toke, the first zine devoted to cooking with weed, preaches the green word
Along with providing recipes, the new quarterly demystifies weed as a stoner staple.
Happy #420Day, Chicago
Weed Day coverage: a Chicago zine devoted to cooking with pot, how to take a weed bath, dealing with stoned drivers—and more.
Chicago Palestine Film Festival: past versus present, neighbor versus neighbor
Tensions between Palestinians and Israelis, tradition and modernity mark the 17th edition of the long-running festival at Gene Siskel Film Center.
Facility Theatre presents an intricate, complicated Little Match Girl Passion
Composer David Lang and director Dado turns Hans Christian Andersen’s tragic fairy tale into a performance installation.
33 to Nothing’s speakers go up to 11
Grant James Varjas’s new play is a band rehearsal in real time—and it gets really loud.
Three women fight back against sexual harassment—1970s style—in 9 to 5 the Musical.
Firebrand Theatre produces an uplifting and of-the-moment musical comedy based on the 1980 film.
The time Chicago skinheads beat up a Nazi
Yes, Chicago does have a history of punks who’ve shown Nazis what’s what.
Here’s what happened when I took a weed bath
Can you get high from soaking in a tub full of pot-infused bath salts?