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Otherpeace kicks off a Hideout residency to support a restorative, rootsy...
In the early months of the pandemic, Wandering Boys banjo player Rob Jensen reached out to Matt Clark (of slowcore trio Pinebender and drone duo White/Light) with an invitation to jam. The music they...
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Rescuing the legacy of Dancin’ Man
On December 13, I took a long drive to Des Plaines to pick up relatives of my friend Perry Kanlan, a showbiz-adjacent eccentric known as Dancin’ Man. The time on the road gave me the chance to reflect...
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They Call Us and we answer back
Twenty-three-year-old Morgan Kail-Ackerman was catcalled three separate times near Fullerton in Lincoln Park. “Fuck you lady,” “Bitch,” and a familiar, cringeworthy wolf whistle accompanied her walk...
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Age-old problems
Q: I have a problem. (How’s that for an opener?) I’m a 60-something cis woman with a 30-something cis man lover. The problem is my vagina is extremely tight. Also, sometimes I bleed a little bit after...
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The Outfit is a layer in Chicago’s storied past
In the film The Outfit, nothing is quite like audiences think it is—not the setting of the tailor shop, not the 1950s gangsters who are in and out of the shop, and not even the tailor himself. “Every...
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The banal, the brutal, and the beautiful
In Future From Inside (2021)—the last in experimental moving-image makers Dani and Sheilah ReStack’s exhilarating “feral domesticity” triptych—the two artists (partners in life as well as in certain...
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when rapture calls: love letter to Jack
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New west-coast punk supergroup Plosivs includes members of Rocket From the...
The pandemic has shattered so many bands that any project that’s come together since March 2020 represents a small victory. And when the project in question is as much fun as Plosivs—a new four-piece...
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Firstness
Brielle Brilliant’s debut feature takes place in New Mexico, but it may as well be where the sidewalk ends. Keith (Tim Kinsella) is trying to get his life together while caring for Tavi (Spencer...
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The Outfit
Chicago native and Oscar-winning screenwriter (The Imitation Game) Graham Moore’s directorial debut The Outfit takes its cues from the noir gangster dramas of Hollywood’s past, creating an...
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Ti West, whose stock in trade is retro genre exercises, adds another notch in his IMDb page with this competently-made but utterly wrongheaded wallow in Texas Chainsaw land. In 1979, a crew of wannabe...
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Jump into spring with these Chicagoland events
The spring equinox (the moment when the sun is exactly above the equator and day and night are of equal length) for this year starts at 10:33 AM on Sunday 3/20, and brings our chance to check out...
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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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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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Sludge-metal all-stars Absent in Body live up to their lineup on their debut LP
Like it or not, supergroups are an inevitable part of the music landscape. There’s always a new one in the works, in no small part because they reliably attract media attention even before they’ve...
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Find holistic balance at Intuit Healing
What makes Intuit Healing different from other spas or healing facilities? Intuit is different because we focus on ongoing, customized treatment of physical and mental health issues; we go beyond...
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Six Chicago coworking spaces to inspire your best work
Working from home is great, but not all the time. While most correspondence makes sense virtually, there’s a certain magic of meeting with your team in person—safely, of course, and when inspiration...
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Lynda Barry is the North Star
One of my prized possessions is a 1989 playbill from Lynda Barry’s The Good Times Are Killing Me. Before the play’s award-winning off-Broadway run, it was produced here in Chicago by City Lit Theater...
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Ensemble dal Niente collates five-year-old highlights on Object/Animal
Ensemble dal Niente’s Object/Animal follows closely on the heels of the local contemporary classical group’s November release, Confined. Speak., a retrospective of pieces performed sans live audiences...
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Alex Diamond learns from Chicago P.D. work for filmmaking future
Assistant Director Alex Diamond jokes that his professional abbreviation, “A.D.,” should really stand for “Anxious Director.” “We always have to think of what could go wrong, and what could be an...
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