And other life lessons from a live Q&A in Vancouver, BC
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 6
Issue of Nov. 16 – 22, 2017
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Welcome to the world of the Seldoms’ The Making
The exploration that began with Power Goes and RockCitizen continues with a multimedia triptych set in Pulaski Park Field House.
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In Tanya Saracho’s Fade, it’s hard to say who’s oppressed
Intersectionality meets the workplace comedy in this Teatro Vista-Victory Gardens coproduction.
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Downstate hate: A history of the bitter, nearly 200-year rivalry between Chicago and the rest of Illinois
The animosity between Illinois’s largest city and its smaller towns is almost as old as the state itself.
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John Becker of Vaskula on the best gothic rock being recorded today
Current musical obsessions of Vaskula’s John Becker, Plague Bringer’s Greg Ratajczak, and the Reader’s Philip Montoro
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The radical nature of Faith Wilding’s fantastical watercolors
Western Exhibitions puts on a compressed retrospective of the Paraguayan-American artist.
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Hanging around with the Mountain Goats on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Jay Ryan of the Bird Machine.
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U.S. Steel dumped more toxic chromium into Lake Michigan in October, asked state regulators to ‘keep it secret’, and other Chicago news
Also, man freed by Cook County state’s attorney’s office after serving 29 years in jail on two wrongful convictions of arson.
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Manual Cinema turns Gwendolyn Brooks into poetry magic
With the help of Eve Ewing, Nate Marshall, and Jamila and Ayanna Woods, the performance collective creates an immersive audiovisual event out of the poet’s life story.
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Underrated young rapper Charlie Curtis-Beard drops his ambitious second album
Underrated young rapper Charlie Curtis-Beard drops his ambitious second album, LGBTQ prisoner-advocate group Black and Pink throws a benefit show at Elastic, and more.
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Devouring the Guilt injects new energy into Chicago’s free-jazz scene
Scrappy free-improvising trio Devouring the Guilt—saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, bassist Eli Namay, and drummer Bill Harris—are part of a potent group of performers releasing music through the Amalgam label.
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Graffiti artists pay tribute to beloved underground rapper Mic One
Mike “Mic One” Malinowski died in July at age 40, and last week Jacob “Dream” Parsons and Greg “Werm One” Gunter unveiled a mural in his honor.
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My Friend Dahmer is a portrait of the mass murderer as a young man
Marc Meyers’s film adaptation of Derf Backderf’s graphic novel is an unlikely mix of exploitation and art.
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Laura Callier of Gel Set makes a return visit from LA to support the new Body Copy
On Gel Set’s Body Copy, Laura Callier tackles loneliness and alienation with her usual wit and sophistication—and lots of goofy puns.
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Former alderman Fioretti running against Preckwinkle for Cook County Board president, and other Chicago news
Also, an Illinois Republican congressman calls on the GOP to “disown every aspect of” Roy Moore.