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Tag: Vol. 50 No. 17
Issue of May. 13 – 26, 2021
Posted inFood & Drink
Get out and eat your feelings at these weekend food pop-ups
Take your life back.
Posted inArts & Culture
Accidental Shakespeare Zooms in on a queer pandemic-era Romeo and Juliet
Director Iris Sowlat uses social isolation as a framework for the lovers; plus PARA.MAR Dance Theatre offers live classes and performances with THAWEN.
Posted inMusic
Tuareg guitar group Les Filles de Illighadad lock into their groove as a touring band
Fatour Seidi Ghali is surely not the first person to become enamored of an older sibling’s guitar. When she was about ten, her older brother, Ahmoudou Madassane (who currently plays rhythm guitar for Mdou Moctar), brought a guitar from Libya back to their home in Illighadad, Niger. Since Tuareg girls aren’t encouraged to pick up […]
Posted inMusic
Soul singer Jackie Ross is so much more than a one-hit wonder
Jackie Ross had a smash with “Selfish One” in 1964—but that just happens to be the best-selling single from her decades of great songs.
Posted inArts & Culture
Lyric and Joffrey, together at last
Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Joffrey Ballet announce in-person 2021-2022 seasons.
Posted inArts & Culture
Keiler Roberts finds calm in the chaos with My Begging Chart
The artist’s new collection of autobiographical comics looks at the highs and lows of everyday life with humor and lightness.
Posted inMusic
Bob Koester leaves a colossal legacy in Chicago jazz and blues
For nearly 70 years, Bob Koester owned the Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records—and though his businesses could be “crazy town,” they helped nurture thriving communities.
Posted inMusic
Yautja perfect their maximalist metal on The Lurch
Nashville metal trio Yautja are a great example of how the old adage “less is more” doesn’t always apply. For ten years now, these three dudes—whose band name is also the species name of the fictional extraterrestrial hunters in the Predator franchise—have been throwing everything into their maximalist music, and getting better and better results. […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Rebellion of the mushrooms
The media feeding frenzy over Mayor Lightfoot’s hacked e-mail is what happens when City Hall tries to control every aspect of what reporters see and hear.
Posted inMusic
New Canyons return after eight years with a third album of gloomy dream pop
New Canyons return after eight years with a third album of gloomy dream pop, hip-hop historian Darrell “Artistic” Roberts interviews 1980s MC Mello D, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
For Kyle Beachy, skateboarding is The Most Fun Thing
The author takes a deep dive into the culture of the lifestyle and his personal connection to it.
Posted inArts & Culture
Nina Barrett vs. Amazon
The owner of Evanston’s Bookends & Beginnings is taking on the retail giant in an effort to save independent bookstores.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
There’s a button for that
The upside to speeding up his orgasms during oral
Posted inMusic
Chicago comp says we’re still in the same Situation, still caring for one another
Last July, local arts and music nonprofit Quiet Pterodactyl put together a sprawling compilation called Situation Chicago to support local music venues struggling during the pandemic. Almost a year later, with another few hundred thousand Americans dead and live music as we once knew it still mostly impossible, the organization has put together a sequel—this […]