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Home » Vol. 50 No. 16

Tag: Vol. 50 No. 16

Issue of Apr. 29 – May. 12, 2021

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Posted inCity Life

A mother of a week

by Salem Collo-Julin May 7, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator

Tom of Your Life
Posted inFilm

Indie film on ice

by Kate Schmidt May 7, 2021August 18, 2021

Jer Sklar’s feature Tom of Your Life makes its local premiere in a one-week run at the newly reopened Music Box.

State Street north from Madison Street, with banners for College Days
Posted inCity Life

State Street, that great street?

by Max Grinnell May 7, 2021August 18, 2021

What would it take to bring the grandeur back to the Loop?

Posted inNews & Politics

COVID’s invisible victims

by Sylvia Puente and Marina Del Rios May 7, 2021August 18, 2021

The narrative that young and previously healthy Americans are the “new” pandemic patients is an erasure of Latino victims.

Denis Vélez in the Lyric Ryan Opera Center's "Rising Stars in Concert"
Posted inArts & Culture

Opera on your phone; CSO (lite), live and in person

by Deanna Isaacs May 6, 2021August 18, 2021

While Chicago opera plays on your phone, Symphony Center announces May opening.

Carlo Lorenzo García in A Portrait of My Mother
Posted inArts & Culture

Carlo Lorenzo García creates a solo tribute in A Portrait of My Mother

by Kerry Reid May 6, 2021August 18, 2021

The onetime Chicago theatermaker premieres his digital show for Mother’s Day; plus major awards for playwrights and designers and a tribute to Russ Tutterow

Posted inColumns & Opinion

My husband gets off to financial domination

by Dan Savage May 6, 2021August 18, 2021

He’s controlling in bed and submissive online.

Posted inMusic

A local R&B favorite by the Fabulous Turks gets resurrected after half a century

by Steve Krakow May 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Chicago singer-songwriter RJ Griffith has released a cover of his uncle’s old R&B band the Fabulous Turks.

Posted inMusic

Chicago math-pop masters Paper Mice return with 1-800-MONDAYS

by Luca Cimarusti May 6, 2021August 18, 2021

It’s been almost eight years since we’ve heard new music from local weirdos Paper Mice, but their brand-new 1-800-MONDAYS (Three One G) was worth the wait—it’s easily their best record yet. This time around, the trio blur the line between pop and herky-jerky math rock more thoroughly than ever before, stepping up the polyrhythms and […]

When it comes to corruption, folks, Chicago is hands-down (or handcuffs up?) a champion.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

We’re number one!

by Ben Joravsky May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

With two aldermen indicted on just one day, Chicago proves it’s second to none when it comes to corruption.

Michael Martin
Posted inArts & Culture

Remembering Michael Martin

by Kirsten Lambert May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

From Chicago to New Orleans, the performer, playwright, director, producer, and raconteur created deep connections.

"I have learned that I’m not as fragile as I thought I was."
Posted inArts & Culture

A transformative year

by Andrew Davis May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

Trans Latina Frances D’allesio talks survival, mental health, and food.

Posted inMusic

Ganser move their creativity online for the pandemic

by Niko Stratis May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

Chicago postpunk band Ganser made their new remix EP with help from social-media connections built during lockdown.

Posted inMusic

This might be the last Bandcamp Friday

by Leor Galil May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

Not to alarm anyone, but no further Bandcamp Fridays have been announced—so don’t put off that music-buying binge another month.

Posted inMusic

Hollyy raises moneyy on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was created for a CIVL and Skateistan benefit by Chicago designer Emily Burlew (also of the band Late Nite Laundry).

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