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All bloomed out in Andersonville
There is a certain ceremony and ritual that defines Chicago spring. In Andersonville, we have our own ceremonies and rituals that emerge as we exit the period between the felled leaves and the fresh...
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Subverting the dominant paradigm, one stitch at a time
The Bayeux Tapestry dates back to the 11th century, so you can’t really say that high art appreciation of fiber work is new. There’s a big difference, though, between validating a giant record of...
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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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Chicago indie-rock trio Axons explore an infamous Chicago prison break on I...
One of the most remarkable things about Chicago is its complex relationship with crime. The criminal-justice and court system is often so flawed, discriminatory, and unjust that it can seem as harmful...
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Sometimes the best thing to do is scream
The pandemic has constricted all our worlds—especially in its early months, I rarely went past my apartment’s front door. It’s been enough to make me want to scream, and Chicago multi-instrumentalist...
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Criminalizing queerness
Bernina Mata doesn’t deny killing John Draheim in 1998. “I wake up every day and wish that I could go back and change what happened,” Mata wrote in a letter attached to her recently filed clemency...
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‘We can imagine our way into something else’
When Anthony Holmes goes to the doctor today, he’s asked: How many heart attacks have you had? That’s because, Holmes says, the torture he faced in 1973 at the hands of then-Chicago Police Commander...
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Five electric films at PrideArts
First kisses, last goodbyes, and laundry detergent—the PrideArts Spring Film Fest has it all. This is the final of four curated weeks in the festival, and PrideArts finishes things off by showcasing...
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At the Siskel Center, Rogers Park is Tuesday’s star
Like the rest of us in 2020, film director Michael Glover Smith found his carefully laid plans laid to waste by a microscopic agent of chaos and destruction. In the face of delay upon delay, Smith...
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Springing ahead with live performance
While the BA.2 variant of COVID-19 looms as a possible impediment to attending live performances (even as some of us now qualify for a second booster), shows are booming. We’ve got a baker’s dozen of...
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Two stories of diasporic movement
“Phonetic Fragments: Azadeh Gholizadeh & Elnaz Javani” is on view at Roots & Culture until Sat 4/9. Credit: Coco Picard The post Two stories of diasporic movement appeared first on Chicago...
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The 17th annual porn film festival is back in person
The long-running porn festival HUMP! Fest (organized by Chicago Reader sex columnist Dan Savage) made its way to the Music Box last weekend after being canceled last year. Crammed into the theater,...
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Nina Escobedo: Bringing a passion for costumes to Chicago’s TV and film industry
Nina Escobedo credits her grandmother for sparking the childhood interests that ultimately led to her becoming a professional costumer working in Chicago. “My grandmother taught me to sew at the age...
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Wayfaring return after three years with a new set of spiritually informed...
James Falzone’s music has always spanned aesthetics. The Chicago native, who plays clarinets, shruti box, and percussion, has led and participated in ensembles that create various combinations of...
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Half-Ukrainian musical jack-of-all-trades Pasha Pear drops a hallucinatory...
Born to a Ukrainian mother and a Russian-Armenian father, Chicago-based musician Pasha Petrosyan grew up living in Moscow during the school year and Kyiv every summer, till his family moved to the...
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Barroom power ballads
Kim Boler directs Mike Beyer and Kirk Pynchon’s Cleveland-set comedy about gentrification, nostalgia, and karaoke; not necessarily in that order. A group of regulars meets up on a frigid winter night...
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Darkness and light
Inspired in part by Oliver Sacks’s 1995 New Yorker essay “To See and Not to See,” Brian Friel’s 1996 play in monologues, Molly Sweeney, shares Sacks’s ability to translate the medical into the...
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What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a bracing experience
Early in Congo Square’s powerful hybrid theatrical event—a part healing ritual, part sensitivity session, part exuberant dance theater freak-out, and part explosive agitprop political satire written...
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Christmas in April
When storefront operations like Blank Theatre Company scale down a Broadway musical to their humbler proportions, the resulting show tends to live and die by the strength of its ensemble. Thankfully...
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