On their excellent second album, Chicago underground rockers Lala Lala process a painful year—but only partway. They celebrate its release with a show on Friday, September 28.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 49
Issue of Sep. 13 – 19, 2018
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Warped for life by Fanny and Alexander
Moral of story: do not take your impressionable young teenager to see a Bergman film.
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Riot Fest and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The Music Box 70mm Film Festival and more goings-on 9/14-9/16
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How women came together to take down the Orwells
Rumors about the Chicago band’s sexually abusive behavior had been circulating in private for years. A group of devoted fans decided to make them public.
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The Brazilian fantasy Good Manners confounds all expectations
Its wild plot twists speak to the inherent potential of the movies.
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The 70-Millimeter Film Festival returns to the Music Box Theatre
The classics as you’ve seen them before, only much, much bigger
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The Shipment forces its (white) audience to contemplate its complicity in perpetuating American racism
Prepare to squirm and be destroyed by Red Tape Theatre’s revival of Young Jean Lee’s play.
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Jenny Magnus stays behind the scenes of the charmingly absurd (Not) Another Day
The Curious Theatre Branch cofounder’s latest puts the “opera” in soap opera.
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Continents collide (and collapse) at Logan Square’s Bixi Beer
An Asian-inspired brewpub from Owen & Engine’s Bo Fowler sends lots of mixed messages.
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Shattered Globe’s Crime and Punishment plays out like a psychopath’s TED talk
Mimed commentary detracts from the story at hand.
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Pro tip for mayoral hopefuls: Don’t govern by press release, do sweat the small stuff
Many Chicagoans never felt that Rahm Emanuel was their mayor.
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Chicago 1968: The Whole World Is Watching chronicles the chaos of the infamous DNC convention
Here’s what happened when writer Terry Southern and photographer Michael Cooper flew in to cover it—with William S. Burroughs and Jean Genet along for the ride.
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Not even 2018 can stop Riot Fest
It’s been a bad year for punks—and for everyone else who hates authoritarianism. But Riot Fest has persevered to bring us Run the Jewels, Blondie, Gary Numan, and 85 more acts.
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Nothing is what it seems in Six Degrees of Separation
But Donovan Sessions makes Redtwist’s production cohere.