New troupe Polaris Dance Theatre makes its debut Wednesday with Poleitico: A Pole Show on Politics.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 5
Issue of Nov. 9 – 15, 2017
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Masturbation epidemic in Cook County court lockups raises questions about jail conditions, county budget, defendants’ rights
Public defenders, especially women, are being sexually harassed while visiting defendants in lockup.
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Stephen Cone’s Princess Cyd is a masterful study of friendship, sex, and psychology
The latest feature by the Chicago-based writer-director explores the budding relationship between a solitary novelist and her outgoing niece.
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Joe Ricketts, DNAinfo, and the fearsomeness of labor
Unions give conservative billionaire Ricketts the willies.
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Kanye West returns to Chicago, makes first live appearance in nearly a year, and other news
Also, the Chicago Police Department discredits terrorism plot rumors.
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Hyde Park Art Center Gala showcases south-side art-world style
See some of the best-dressed folks who supported HPAC’s yearly fund-raiser.
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The Obama Foundation throws a summit
What the Obama Foundation’s summit revealed about its mission.
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The Strange Foods Chicago Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The VGA Gallery’s new magazine, the South Side Pie Challenge, and more goings-on the weekend of 11/3-11/5
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Blagojevich brings his appeal to the Supreme Court, and other Chicago news
Also, the Obama Presidential Center will feature a public library instead of a presidential library.
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Joe Ricketts penned a love letter to Trump while shutting down DNAinfo and Chicagoist
The writing may have been on the wall, aka the anti-union billionaire’s blog.
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At Festive Collective, party decor for the design-conscious
Celebrate in style with help from the Logan Square storefront.
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Back from hiatus, macabre indie band the Black Heart Procession plays its debut album in its entirety
Have you ever been to San Diego?! It’s not remotely macabre, not a lick. Yet somehow America’s Finest City birthed the Black Heart Procession, an eclectic, mutating orchestra of woe whose solemn, gently writhing indie rock (complete with rapt saw playing) has led to a modestly successful decade-plus career. Forged by Pall Jenkins and Tobias […]
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Indie stalwart Ted Leo returns with The Hanged Man, his first album in seven years
For much of the aughts Ted Leo & the Pharmacists found themselves in the unusual position of being beloved avatars of the indie-rock scene. The group wasn’t as commercially successful as other acts that emerged from this broad milieu, but their sophisticated, punk-driven, oft-political songs had a scrappiness to them that spoke to the genre’s […]
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CSO’s MusicNow series celebrates the meditative work of pianist and composer Vijay Iyer
Earlier this year pianist and composer Vijay Iyer released Far From Over (ECM), a sextet recording whose sturdy but flexible originals reaffirm his jazz bona fides while Tyshawn Sorey’s explosive drumming fractures their swing. Iyer’s arrangements extract an orchestral splendor from the group he assembled for the album—Sorey, saxophonists Steve Lehman and Mark Shim, cornetist […]
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Kentucky rockers White Reaper recharge power-pop for the 21st century
In April, downstate-Illinois indie label Polyvinyl released the second album from Louisville power-pop act White Reaper, The World’s Best American Band. Regardless of whether or not there will ever be a clear consensus that any group is worthy of such a title (probably not), White Reaper certainly play like they believe they’re the greatest band […]