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Château Picklebone opens its fabled gates for Monday Night Foodball
Logan Square’s Superkhana International has been an incubator throughout the pandemic for young chefs sometimes short on experience but always long on big ideas. Chefs Zeeshan Shah and Yoshi Yamada...
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Find a print copy of this week’s issue
The latest issue The latest issue of the Chicago Reader is the issue of February 17, 2022. You can download the print issue as a free PDF. The next print issue is the issue of March 3, 2022, the Best...
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Winners will be announced in our big annual Best of Chicago issue
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Post Office Winter share the world of fun in Chicago’s teen DIY scene
Chicago DIY rock duo Post Office Winter take an audible joy in playing scruffy, comfortable indie rock whose charming shabbiness feels like an accident they wouldn’t have any other way. The band’s...
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Home Sweet Alone
When I moved into my first studio apartment in 2017, I got obsessed with the 1995 Jewel single “You Were Meant For Me.” In the song, Jewel has recently split with her lover and moved into her own...
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Chicago police, firefighters donated to Canadian trucker convoy
About 200 Chicagoans donated more than $13,000 to a fundraiser for truckers who blockaded the Canadian capital and key border crossings to protest COVID restrictions, according to data released by the...
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Matchess draws music from the resources of memory on Sonescent
For roughly a decade, Chicago multi-instrumentalist Whitney Johnson maintained a fairly steady developmental arc with her solo project, Matchess. Her songs, which comprised layers of viola, organ,...
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Hive
In Hive, writer-director Blerta Basholli tells the story—based on real events—of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi), who lives in a Kosovan village that has been devastated by the kidnap and suspected murder of a...
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Last and First Men
Before his untimely death, the prophetic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhansson completed his first and final film, exploring a delicate space between the literary and the cinematic for a science fiction...
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Marry Me
A pop star, fueled by betrayal, panic, and an insane amount of adrenaline, proposes to an audience member holding a sign that says “MARRY ME.” In a media landscape saturated by YouTuber clout weddings...
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A Night of Knowing Nothing
Winner of the Golden Eye award for Best Documentary at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Indian writer-director Payal Kapadia’s feature debut ambitiously merges fiction and nonfiction techniques to...
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Rumble
Rumble will be diverting enough for its target audience, which I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess is humans who have not yet reached the double digits. As for the rest of us: it’s an unoriginal...
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Occupying the moment
Dr. Maura Reilly is a curator who understands feminist art. It is one of the reasons she was chosen to curate a historic exhibition at Bridgeport Art Center as a part of the 50th anniversary...
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Matt Pike of High on Fire makes his solo debut with a psych-rock blowout
Matt Pike has had a long and storied career as a member of pioneering stoner-metal trios Sleep and High on Fire. But the pandemic has been hard on team players, and so this year the guitarist and...
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100 Best Phone Chat Line Numbers With Free Trials in 2022
There are so many ways to meet new people, but nothing is more adventurous and electrifying than calling a phone chat line. It’s exciting to think about all the new people you could meet through a...
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17 Best VR Porn Sites: Top Virtual Reality Porn of 2022
Everyone and their mother—well, definitely father—is familiar with standard 2D porn. But 3D porn? That’s where things get taken to the next level. With recent innovations in virtual reality (VR)...
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Island of empathy
At one point in Come From Away, a citizen of Gander cites a Bible verse from Philippians that begins “Do not be anxious about anything.” If you’ve spent the better part of the last half-decade or so...
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Queer Ukrainians in Chicago fear the worst amid Russian invasion
As explosions rock cities across Ukraine and air raid alarms pierce the air in Kyiv, a city Alex Burlakov once called home, he thinks of his sister, his niece and nephew, and his mother there. He says...
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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)City of Chicago Marketing Report (PDF)Annual Report 2021 (PDF)CIMA Fundraiser Report 2021...
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Black film at Block Cinema
“Flesh to Spirit: Materiality and Abstraction in Black Experimental Film,” a program of 12 short films screening at the Block Cinema at Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art on Friday, March 4, at 7 PM,...
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