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Tag: Vol. 49 No. 24
Issue of Mar. 19 – 25, 2020
Posted inArts & Culture
Jokes in the time of coronavirus
How soon is “too soon” when you’re living through it?
Posted inMusic
Friday is buy stuff from Bandcamp day
On March 20, Bandcamp responds to the pandemic by giving up its cut so that all your money supports musicians. Here are six local acts to start with.
Posted inArts & Culture
From Catholicism to comedy
Cameron Esposito looks back on her defining moments in the memoir Save Yourself.
Posted inFood & Drink
Rogers Park Food Not Bombs wants to convert restaurant food waste into food for the needy
Here’s how to donate.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Chicagoans stick together
My blood pressure shot up Saturday when I read the Sun-Times story about Saint Patrick’s Day partiers, and I got particularly irked by the quote from a health professional who refused to let a pandemic get in the way of his binge drinking. The concept of social distancing isn’t all that radical in the face of uncertain […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A note on how to cover the coronavirus
How does the Reader cover the coronavirus? It’s a question we started asking ourselves late last week as the city and state stepped up their responses—and the cancellation, postponement, and closure notices started pouring in from the entities we love most. What would signature Reader coverage of a global pandemic look like? And what role […]
Posted inNews & Politics
‘I’m still in shock’
How Chicagoans, from creatives to nonprofit staff, are being affected by the novel coronavirus—and what we can all do to help
Posted inNews & Politics
Wash your hands and practice social distancing
Advice for these uncertain and anxious times
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Nothing next to normal
As the curtain falls on live performance, museums and performing arts groups scramble to adapt online.
Posted inMusic
Support service workers with the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created for the Federal Music Project of the Works Project Administration, most likely designed by artist Ralph Graham in 1937.
Posted inMusic
Sound artist Andy Slater on the spring-into-summer sound of 80s freestyle
Current musical obsessions of sound artist and performer Andy Slater, DJ Hannah Viti, and Reader listings coordinator Salem Collo-Julin
Posted inArts & Culture
The Two Character Play gets the context it deserves.
Tennessee Williams’s oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L’Acadie.
Posted inMusic
Bobby Conn’s new album confronts the cruel delusion of ‘self-help’
Bobby Conn’s new album confronts the cruel delusion of “self-help,” Matt Jencik and Whitney Johnson team up as Deep Space Duo, and more.