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Remembering Gustavo Mellado; Silk Road announces new paths
As a year filled with many losses in Chicago’s theater community wound down, word came in late December that Gustavo Mellado, a founding ensemble member of Teatro Vista, had died at age 69. A...
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El análisis del agua de la prisión de Stateville no cumplió con la regulación...
Una evaluación independiente de la calidad del agua realizada en noviembre de 2021 en una de las prisiones más grandes de Illinois no siguió las regulaciones federales a pesar de la preocupación sobre...
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A 21st-century Oklahoma!
Director Daniel Fish’s controversial 2019 Broadway revival of the classic musical Oklahoma! has come to Chicago for a two-week run at the CIBC Theatre. I don’t know how Fish’s innovative rethinking of...
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Celebrations and dance floors
Looking for some ways to spice up your winter free time? We’ve got you covered, just read on. FRI 1/14 It’s certainly been gloomy and gray enough lately to turn your mind to gothic fancies, and A Red...
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JOBS The Chicago Reader is seeking an experienced Development Associate. The Development Associate is integral to engaging our donor and membership base. Desired: 2-3 years experience in development,...
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Homeless in a pandemic-stricken Chicago
Underneath the city streets on Lower Wacker, many people have set up encampments along a stretch of concrete and iron rust. It can smell like gasoline, cat urine, pigeon droppings, rat decay, mold,...
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7 Best Love Spells That Work and How To Cast Them in 2022
Throughout history, witchcraft has had a notoriously bad image. Most of the world links witches to Satanism and pure evil, and just looking into the past tells you how much of a bad rep witches have...
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Top Adult Chat Rooms for Sex Chat in 2022
If you thought chat rooms ended with the 90s, you’d be wrong. They’re more popular than ever, especially adult chat rooms. There are two types: classic/text and video. Remember old-school AOL chat...
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The 13+ Best Adult Cam Sites of 2022
Live adult cam sites are taking over the adult entertainment scene. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we all feel so isolated, and connecting with a live model is more satisfying than...
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Progressive death-metal band Monochromatic Black deliver the brutality on...
In 2018, Long Island progressive death-metal band Monochromatic Black threw down the gauntlet with a video for their debut single, “The Herd,” announcing themselves as a force to be reckoned with. The...
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New-music combo Honestly Same debut their improvised meditations
Gossip Wolf has yet to hear a note from Honestly Same, but the temptation is strong to refer to the five-piece improvising collective as a supergroup—kind of like Temple of the Dog for the local...
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Cloakroom tap into their dreamier side on Dissolution Wave
On the untouchable 2017 LP Time Well, Cloakroom dialed in and perfected their take on modern slowcore, blending Hum-flavored space rock and atomically heavy walls of guitars with syrupy, dreary, and...
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Local drummer and bandleader Tim Daisy introduces two new bands
In January 2021, I profiled local percussionist Tim Daisy by detailing his creative response to the limitations imposed by COVID-19. At the time, he had just issued a virtual collaboration with...
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A survivor’s tour of Auschwitz
She didn’t want to talk about it. Fritzie Fritzshall survived Auschwitz, came to Chicago, and built what most of us are lucky enough to think of as a normal life, with work and marriage, a child and a...
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Sinister spinsters
Jen Silverman’s The Moors is a brilliantly executed pastiche of everything from Wuthering Heights (the gloomy insalubrious environs of the title) to Rebecca, complete with a menacing parlor...
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City Lit stages the OG of Westerns
City Lit’s original stage adaptation of Owen Wister’s 1902 novel The Virginian focuses on the experience of two easterners adjusting to the rough-and-ready way of life in pre-statehood Wyoming in the...
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Roel Estanilla makes a very presentable pig
A lion’s purr revving to a roar. The sound of a crack racing across the bald face of a mountain. Thunder ripping across the sky. All arresting sounds for sure, but the phenomenon of Roel Estanilla...
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Semiratruth’s Moonlandin’ elevates her music to a new plane
Semiratruth Garrett remembers the exact day her creative life opened up. It wasn’t the afternoon in 2014 when she first recorded a song at Harold Washington Library’s YouMedia lab, or the day several...
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About the Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA)
You can find our recent reports here: Statement in support of a pooled fund for journalism in Chicago (PDF)Annual Report 2021 (PDF)CIMA Fundraiser Report 2021 (PDF)Annual Report 2020 (PDF)CIMA &...
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Elton ‘L10MixedIt’ Chueng, recording engineer
Elton Chueng, 33, began his career as a professional recording engineer with an internship at Classick Studios in 2011. He’s since worked with some of the brightest stars to emerge from Chicago’s...
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