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Tag: Vol. 50 No. 15
Issue of Apr. 15 – 28, 2021
Posted inMusic
Chicago ambient musician Andrew CS harnesses the tranquility of nature on his new EP
Multidisciplinary artist Andrew CS moved to Chicago from Rockton, Illinois, in the mid-2010s to study interaction design at Columbia College, and then began booking intimate Sunday DIY shows—but long before either of those things happened, he’d developed an interest in field recordings by playing indie video games. “The first mode of creation that I got […]
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A slice of sunshiny soukous for spring
Revisiting an old favorite by Sam Mangwana’s 80s band Tiers Monde Cooperation
Posted inCity Life
Reset your mind with cherry blossoms
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
Posted inFood & Drink
Silent senses
For some the long-haul COVID-19 loss of taste and smell is more than an inconvenience—it’s a loss of livelihood.
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Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble’s Now is an essential album of the moment
Flipping through television channels. Flicking through radio stations. They’re quotidian actions—until they’re not. When you’ve lived through a year like 2020, every frequency delivers the same nightmare from a different angle. On Now (International Anthem), Chicago sound collagist Damon Locks and his Black Monument Ensemble confidently grasp the tuning dial of history. Like 2019’s Where […]
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Cheap cannabis seeds online—Best value seed banks by single seeds or pack
Looking for cheap marijuana seeds online? We bring you 6 cheap cannabis seeds – both packs and single seeds. Indica-dominant & sativa-dominant seeds for sale, as well as autoflowering, feminized, high yield, high THC level [2021]
Posted inNews & Politics
Hands up, don’t shoot
Video released Thursday shows that 13-year-old Adam Toledo was unarmed and raising his hands when he was killed by police.
Posted inArts & Culture
Mercury Theater rises from the dead
The Southport corridor venue gets new life and new leadership.
Posted inNews & Politics
By the numbers
A local nonprofit, Lighthouse Foundation, is surveying some of the city’s largest LGBTQ+ institutions and will be grading them on just how far their diversity and inclusion goes.
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Vivian McCall documents her transition on her life-affirming debut as Pansy
Chicago multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Vivian McCall helped turn Andrew Smith’s bedroom project, Jungle Green, into a bona fide six-piece band when she joined in 2017. Since they all began playing together, she’s engineered sessions for projects by the band’s other members, and she’s also stepped out on her own with her self-titled solo debut […]
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Annie Saunders, veterinarian and founder of Punk House Chicago
“The focus is not as much on the bands as it is on communal life and the weird things you get up to when you’re making minimum wage and you’re bored.”
Posted inArts & Culture
Avner Landes’s Meiselman gets it right
Even though its titular character always does just the opposite
Posted inNews & Politics
The last men’s hotel
For those who live there, the Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire.