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Tag: Vol. 50 No. 6
Issue of Dec. 10 – 23, 2020
Posted inArts & Culture
The onstage season was short, but there was plenty of drama in 2020
Getting back to normal isn’t going to happen. And in many ways, it shouldn’t.
Posted inNews & Politics
The COVID-canceled sports league that still made the streets unsafe
Members of the Chicago Police Enforcers football team have been involved in more than 200 incidents where they’ve injured civilians through use of force.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Why won’t the universe let me have wet dreams?
Maybe it’s lingering shame about same-sex desires.
Posted inNews & Politics
Librarians sound alarms about pandemic protocols
Do the CPL pandemic guidelines really help staff and patrons?
Posted inMusic
Multimedia artist Frank Garvey makes music with robots to satirize late capitalism
Frank Garvey, creator of the long-running OmniCircus, also recorded two brilliantly unclassifiable albums in Chicago in the late 70s.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Maddog and Tunney
As usual, Democrats in Illinois find new and creative ways to undercut their own party.
Posted inArts & Culture
Code-Switched delivers universal lessons with South Asian nuance
It’s the late-20s existential crisis sitcom that all South Asian American millennials deserve.
Posted inMusic
Rudolph took a personal day on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by the Empty Bottle using a photo illustration by John Sturdy.
Posted inMusic
Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang livestream their traditional solstice duo
Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang livestream their traditional solstice drum duo, Che Arthur of Pink Avalanche drops two instrumental solo EPs, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Ghost Gun confronts class and race
The Goodman joins the national #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence initiative; plus a new documentary on the August Wilson Monologue Competition and an award for a dance documentarian
Posted inFood & Drink
Bow before our future fungal overlords
Get your lion’s mane, pioppino, and blue oysters through Windy City Mushroom’s new magic mushroom window.
Posted inArts & Culture
Catherine Edelman Gallery closes with a ‘Place in the Sun’
Landscape photographer scott b. davis treks into the wild and discovers the undiscoverable.
Posted inMusic
Neptunian Maximalism deliver a funeral rite for the human species
Neptunian Maximalism’s recent triple album, Éons, imagines a future Earth dominated by hyperintelligent elephants.
Posted inCity Life
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