As the world literally burns, it’s a comfort to see performers we hold dear come back through town to offer musical relief. Singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler debuted in 2004 with the album Ballads of Living and Dying, establishing the template for her delicately ominous, reverb-shrouded fables of loss and mortality. She’s since come out of the […]
Tag: Vol. 51 No. 22
Issue of August 4, 2022
Swimming in the atomic waters of the largest Godzilla convention on earth
On the reptilian superstar, family, and other monsters
by Katie Prout
Affordable housing in Bronzeville
Dancing at Bud Billiken parade
On the cover: Photo by Mark Capapas. For more of Capapas’s work, go to mark-capapas.com.
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Paul Vallas rubs shoulders with the far right
The mayoral candidate spoke at a fundraiser for a group that has promoted transphobic rhetoric.
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Biased driving
It was a mixed-message week on the homefront. Mayor Lightfoot rolled out the red carpet for NASCAR the day before she arm-twisted the alderpeople into cracking down on speeders to make our streets safer. So one day the mayor is cheering on stock car racers to go faster. And the next she’s sternly demanding motorists […]
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Can a new housing development revitalize Bronzeville without displacing residents?
One housing complex can’t reverse decades of historical trends—but city officials hope 43 Green can be a model for equitable development.