Patrick Wilkins’s exhibit celebrates humanity’s simplest pleasures with a perverse twist.
Tag: Vol. 50 No. 13
Posted inNews & Politics
The solidarity economy
As mutual aid groups pick up the government’s slack during the pandemic, social justice organizations and funders are looking at how to continue this momentum.
Posted inMusic
Improvising trio Kuzu combines fire with finesse on a new LP
Kuzu formed in 2017, when electric guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Tyler Damon invited saxophonist Dave Rempis to join their duo onstage at Elastic Arts. The set went so well that they recorded an album the next day. Anyone who knew what that record’s title, Hiljaisuus, means in Finnish probably just thought the trio were […]
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Chicago emo duo OK Cool are not OK
OK Cool write oddly inspiring songs about having a hard time being alive.
Posted inCity Life
Another seven days of Chicago fun
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
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Providing resources for a brighter future
Paid sponsored content Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) promotes strong communities, businesses, and households to ensure that people who work do not live in poverty. JARC’s Careers in Manufacturing Programs provide free job training and job placement services that help workers find employment in the manufacturing sector with skills in Computer Numerical Control (CNC), welding, […]
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Chicago rapper-producer Tree extends his winning streak with Soul Trap
In the past decade, Chicago hip-hop has elevated many talented acts to the national stage, among them rapper-producer Tremaine Johnson, better known as Tree—and his wildly idiosyncratic sounds set him apart from most of those newly minted stars. The Cabrini-Green native specializes in calamitous productions whose tough-as-nails percussion frames honeyed vocal samples warped till they […]
Posted inBest of Chicago
This week’s cover
We have a tradition here at the Reader of tasking one of the city’s most talented illustrators, Jason Wyatt Frederick, with creating a Where’s Waldo-esque tableau every year for Pitchfork, filled with a who’s who of Chicago personalities and small visual puzzles spelling out the music fest’s lineup. When it seemed clear that we would […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Ken-Matt Martin takes over at Victory Gardens
After a tumultuous year, the theater’s new artistic director is ready to listen as well as lead.
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100 percent free psychic readings: How you can get free minutes with a psychic online
Everything you need to know about getting free psychic readings. Experts explain what questions to ask in your free psychic reading and where to find the best psychics.
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Chicago band Porcupine explore hardcore’s potent possibilities on The Sibyl
Chicago hardcore five-piece Porcupine use society’s fetid underbelly like a renewable energy source—they must know they’ll never run out of cruelty to drive their outrage. Their new album, The Sibyl (New Morality Zine), opens with “Pederasty,” sung from the point of view of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse who’s still haunted by trauma; […]
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Alejandro Ayala, aka King Hippo, DJ and producer
“You bring people together and something will always happen. . . . The how is pretty easy, but the why is more important to me.”