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Tag: Vol. 48 No. 41
Issue of Jul. 18 – 24, 2019
Posted inFood & Drink
Mom’s at Politan Row turns the table on Japanese ‘Western food’
Chefs Randi Howry and Kelly Ijichi tap a nostalgia in the making.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
President polluter
Chicago EPA employees defend the environment—and their union— from the Trump administration.
Posted inArts & Culture
“About Face,” Wrightwood 659’s exhibition on post-Stonewall LGBTQ art, embraces the uncertainty of queer identity
The show’s real power lies in how it acknowledges the complicated intergenerational conversations between queer artists of color.
Posted inFilm
Leaving Home, Coming Home, a blurry portrait of photographer Robert Frank, finally hits theaters
One of the last surviving Beat artists looks back on a long life.
Posted inFilm
The Windy City International Film Festival wants to introduce Chicago moviemakers to the world
When an actor and director couldn’t find a place to screen their movie here, they started their own festival.
Posted inArts & Culture
Bury Me bogs down in issues
Too many hot-button topics pile up in Dandelion Theatre’s world premiere.
Posted inArts & Culture
There’s nothing bad about The Drag Seed
David Cerda’s latest classic makeover for Hell in a Handbag is a winner for summer camp.
Posted inArts & Culture
Les Misérables storms the barricades again.
Thirty-four years later, the blockbuster musical still packs a potent political message with the melodrama.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Recommendation balances hilarious excess and grim realism
Windy City Playhouse’s latest immersive ambulatory production offers a penetrating analysis of class privilege.
Posted inArts & Culture
Strange Heart Beating muddies the waters
Cloudgate Theatre’s production is too precious and preposterous.
Posted inArts & Culture
Sunset Baby shows the personal price for political strife
A daughter struggles to reconnect with her estranged activist father in Dominique Morisseau’s drama.
Posted inArts & Culture
20/20 celebrates being young, gifted, and queer
About Face Youth Theatre turns 20 with this contemporary look at LGBTQ history.
Posted inArts & Culture
Wolf Play leads the pack
An adoptee seeks comfort and safety in lupine identity in Hansol Jung’s latest.
Posted inCity Life
In praise of sweat and preservation
It’s time to let our hands remember what our ancestors knew.