The rapper-dancer-performance poet rolls with the pandemic punches.
Tag: Vol. 50 No. 1
Issue of Oct. 1 – 14, 2020
Posted inArts & Culture
CounterBalance brings accessibility to dance
Going online opens more opportunities in this year’s festival.
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The Smart Museum wants you to ‘Take Care’
The new exhibit explores caring in all forms and the emotional toll the act can take.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Will Silk Road still rise? Will we?
Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani have been facing more than COVID closure.
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Is a virtual arts degree worth it?
Chicago high school seniors prepare for collegiate arts programs amid pandemic
Posted inNews & Politics
The comeback crane
Ornithologists have called the sandhill crane migration the most beautiful natural phenomenon in the United States.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
I don’t want to be just friends (who have sex sometimes)
Foursomes, threesomes, and what to do when the honeymoon phase ends
Posted inMusic
Emerging Chicago rappers Semiratruth and Tre Johnson make supersize fun together
Chicago rapper Semiratruth impressed me with her 2019 EP I Don’t Wanna Have to Yell for You to Listen, where her sly lines springboard off rickety underground-style instrumentals and her expressive joy makes the grimiest beat shine like a diamond. On this month’s EP Yes! (Layaway), she’s found a great foil in Tre Johnson, whose […]
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Skulls support self-publishing on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist Chema Skandal.
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Slow Pulp make a dreamy album for the year we can’t wake up from
Slow Pulp make a dreamy album for the year we can’t wake up from, Pelican guitarist Dallas Thomas keeps the solo jams coming, and more.
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Black artistic leaders take charge at several Chicago theaters
“There is no other way forward”: reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision
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Zelienople bandleader Matt Christensen makes deconstructed slowcore that engrosses with its subtlety
For more than two decades, singer and guitarist Matt Christensen has led Zelienople, a Chicago trio that explores the outer limits of slowcore by dismantling its melodies and song structures. Christensen focuses on similar territory in his solo work—at least, that’s the impression I get from what I’ve heard so far. His Bandcamp page features […]
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It’s OK to laugh again
Comedians rally to offer outdoor and indoor shows with a pandemic twist.