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Tag: Vol. 47 No. 28
Issue of Apr. 19 – 25, 2018
Posted inFilm
There’s something ugly about I Feel Pretty
In the new Amy Schumer comedy, the road to empowerment leads straight to the cash register.
Posted inNews & Politics
How dangerous are cows?
The Straight Dope: Should you get a moo-ve on if a cow comes charging your way?
Posted inArts & Culture
Donizetti’s Il Pigmalione and Rita demonstrate two versions of love
And there are clowns.
Posted inArts & Culture
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.
Posted inBlogs
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.
Posted inBlogs
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.
Posted inNews & Politics
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.
Posted inBlogs
Is Illinois ready for a potential influx of stoned drivers?
Weed Week: There is no completely reliable test for marijuana intoxication, and very few cops trained to recognize it.
Posted inFilm
Chappaquiddick: How to spin a movie about spin?
A new drama about the Ted Kennedy scandal seeks a mass audience in a politically polarized climate.
Posted inFilm
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.
Posted inArts & Culture
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.
Posted inArts & Culture
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.
Posted inArts & Culture
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.