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Home » Vol. 48 No. 5

Tag: Vol. 48 No. 5

Issue of Nov. 1 – 7, 2018

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Posted inMusic

Singer-songwriter Tatiana Hazel on a third-coast band with beach-rock vibes

by Julia Hale November 6, 2018August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Chicago singer-songwriters Tatiana Hazel and Melo Makes Music and Reader intern Julia Hale

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Tips for men who want to make walking, biking, and transit a little less crummy for women

by John Greenfield November 5, 2018August 18, 2021

“If a woman has headphones on, she doesn’t want to talk to anyone unless the train is literally on fire.”

Posted inNews & Politics

A Visual Voter’s Guide

by Sarah-Ji November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.

Posted inArts & Culture

Let’s go bananas

by Sarah Becan November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

A guide

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A note from the editor

by Anne Elizabeth Moore November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

The sharpest political mind in southeastern Michigan belongs to a 15-year-old girl named Sadia. She’s not old enough to vote, nor is she a citizen—and neither are her parents. Plus she’s superbusy. She’s got school, and then because, birth order-wise, she sits somewhere in the middle of a gaggle of kids, some of whom have […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Artist-chemist Michael Koerner uses tintypes to explore his genetic heritage in his solo show, “My DNA”

by Kate Sierzputowski November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

These chemigrams mimic the chromosomal mutations he inherited from his parents.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Last Session’s backstory makes it more than a relic of the AIDS crisis

by Dan Jakes November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

Playwright Steve Schalchlin’s survival turns the musical into something hopeful and defiant.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Darkness After Dawn isn’t quite the Ashley Judd-in-peril-style thriller we were hoping for

by Dan Jakes November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

Tropes of the genre just don’t work onstage the same way they do on-screen.

Posted inBlogs

Today Andersonville has a record store again

by Taylor Moore November 1, 2018August 18, 2021

Rattleback Records, opened by a retired elementary school principal who lives in Edgewater, sells new and used vinyl, CDs, and cassettes.

Posted inNews & Politics

Efforts to turn Cook County Jail into a polling location persist following governor’s veto

by Julia Hale November 1, 2018August 18, 2021

Though House Bill 4469 to turn Cook County Jail into an official polling location remains at a standstill, representatives who worked on the bill remain positive and motivated.

Posted inNews & Politics

Cook County judicial elections stir up unusual public scrutiny

by Maya Dukmasova November 1, 2018August 18, 2021

Next week’s election could be the first in nearly 30 years to unseat a Cook County judge

Posted inReader

Print issue of November 1, 2018

by Chicago Reader November 1, 2018August 18, 2021

Volume 48, Number 5

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How to get your groove back after giving birth

by Dan Savage November 1, 2018August 18, 2021

A pelvic floor physical therapist comes to the rescue. Plus: Dan gives advice to a straight woman in love with a gay man.

Posted inArts & Culture

Surrealistic elements help Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies transcend its sitcom origins

by Sheri Flanders November 1, 2018August 18, 2021

Like the black experience, the show is messy, fun, shocking, and unpredictable.

Posted inFilm

In his latest documentary, Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman is curiously uninterested in the human inhabitants of a small town

by Ben Sachs November 1, 2018August 18, 2021

The director has always been fascinated by processes, but this time the people behind them scarcely register.

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