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Tag: Vol. 50 No. 6
Issue of Dec. 10 – 23, 2020
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Celebrating a year of cannabis culture
Paid sponsored content No more mystery cannabis Testing helps ensure quality and safety By Elizabeth Ardillo, PharmD, lead pharmacist at Rise Dispensaries If you’re putting something in or on your body—food, medicine, cosmetics—you probably want to know what’s in it. Why not hold your cannabis to the same standard? Thanks to testing, you can be […]
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Yule be home for Christmas with Manual Cinema and Hell in a Handbag
A Dickens chestnut and a spoof of 1970s celebrity specials join the online holiday theater lineup.
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Will Bloodshot Records stay in the saddle?
Internal strife, unpaid royalties, and the looming possibility of a sale have forced venerable Chicago indie Bloodshot Records to a crossroads.
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Cannabis Conversations (PDF)
An exploration of cannabis and hemp topics from multiple perspectives: medical, historical, social equity, ecological, and more.
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Be part of The Clique with Girls Like Us
Comedians Sophie Krueger and Frannie Comstock break down the YA book series.
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Angela Jackson is the state’s new poet laureate
That shouldn’t cost her, right?
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Parked on a snow route on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Nashville graphic designer Terri Morris.
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Adam Gogola, front man of Blind Adam & the Federal League
“When you look around your community, it’s easy to help the people around you. And once you start doing that, it’s easier to understand how we can effect change.”
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To trust or not to trust . . .
Teachers, parents, and students have to decide if CPS can keep COVID-19 out of the classroom.
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The warm embrace of a rom-com
How Chicago-based stories provide comfort in the middle of a pandemic
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Ruth Page Center reimagines The Nutcracker for an online audience
A new recorded site-specific production meets the challenges of this COVID year.
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Finding Yingying looks at the human impact of a tragic crime
Jiayan “Jenny” Shi’s documentary honors Yingying Zhang as a person, not a victim.