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Tag: Vol. 49 No. 4
Issue of Oct. 24 – 30, 2019
Kartemquin Films honors Diverse Voices
The organization nurtures rising Chicago documentarians through its grant program.
Dabbing for beginners
High-potency cannabis concentrates needn’t be scary once you know your way around them.
Bronzeville’s best
This longtime boutique has garments—and bling—for every walk of life.
Summoning the ghosts of Record Row
For two decades, a short stretch of Michigan Avenue hosted a concentration of creative entrepreneurship whose influence on Black popular music is still felt today.
Asylum City
The harrowing stories of six asylum seekers who now call Chicago home
School for sexual scoundrels
How can inveterate cheaters find happiness? Facing up to facts is a start.
Trying out a new bat signal on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist Chris Day.
A couple finds themselves in a creepy cabin in the woods in Grey House
Levi Holloway’s horror show for A Red Orchid Theatre gives a feminist makeover to a familiar genre.
Hollis Resnik is big, but the score stays small in Porchlight’s Sunset Boulevard
A great star turn can’t quite overcome the limitations of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 musical.
The Effect asks if passion is real in an age of pharmaceuticals
Strawdog’s production leaves a mark in this Chicago premiere.
Kentucky puts the “blue” in the Bluegrass State
Leah Nanako Winkler’s raucous and poignant family drama gets a stellar local premiere with the Gift Theatre.
Marginalia centers on two women and their “ferocious, rambunctious way of being”
Khecari’s new duet debuts at Links Hall.
Feast to famine
Just last year Chicago had billions for Amazon but now it’s suddenly too broke for schoolkids.